Reporter at News 5 Cleveland
Six weeks after a woman was strangled while running on the Towpath Trail in Akron, there is a reward on the table to help identify her attacker.Summit County Crimestoppers is offering a reward of up to $2,000 for information that solves the disturbing crime.The victim, a 26-year-old woman, told News 5 that she's pleased about the new effort to generate leads.'I feel really happy that they are really taking this serious,' she said.The attack happened around 8:20 p.m.
Whiddon said likely DNA from the suspect was found on the victim's hands. The DNA was submitted to a national database known as CODIS , but no matches have been found yet.'Sometimes we get a match right away. Other times, it takes a while for the system to catch up with the match and confirm the match,' Whiddon said.The strangulation happened near a vacant brick building that is partially boarded up but it also has multiple broken windows.
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