Almost 45 years after the gruesome murder of a 15-year-old girl and her unborn baby, Pennsylvania State Police say the suspected killer has been arrested.
Luis Sierra, 63, is accused of murdering his then-girlfriend Evelyn Colon in 1976. The decades-old cold case quickly gained footing in 2020 when a DNA match helped police identify the pregnant teenager previously known only as “Beth Doe.”
Sierra was arrested in New York on March 31 and transferred to Carbon County Correctional Facility Tuesday. He faces one count of homicide, but police said they are exploring what additional charges may be applicable.
“In 1976, laws were different,” said district attorney Michael Greek during a press conference Wednesday. “They didn t provide for a homicide of an unborn child.”
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He is being held without bail and awaiting extradition to Pennsylvania in Colon’s murder.
Colon’s family didn’t know what happened to her, as they lost all contact with her in late 1976 when she was eight or nine months pregnant with Sierra’s baby, said her niece, Miriam Colon-Veltman, on Friday.
The young couple had an apartment together in Jersey City, New Jersey, where their families lived.
But the apartment was abandoned when Colon’s family went to visit in mid-December and then they received a letter from Connecticut that she was happy, had the baby and was with her boyfriend, Veltman said.
He is being held without bail and awaiting extradition to Pennsylvania in Colon’s murder.
Colon’s family didn’t know what happened to her, as they lost all contact with her in late 1976 when she was eight or nine months pregnant with Sierra’s baby, said her niece, Miriam Colon-Veltman, on Friday.
The young couple had an apartment together in Jersey City, New Jersey, where their families lived.
But the apartment was abandoned when Colon’s family went to visit in mid-December and then they received a letter from Connecticut that she was happy, had the baby and was with her boyfriend, Veltman said.