Detectives never gave up on solving Joyce Casper's murder. Even after decades without leads, advances in DNA technology helped police solve the cold case.
Even after decades without leads, advances in DNA technology helped detectives solve the cold case and bring closure to Casper’s family.
But police kept combing through evidence until decades later, Casper's unsolved murder was reopened in 2017. Police turned over DNA evidence collected at the scene to a private forensics lab. The preservation of that DNA is what led Lewis, and detectives, to eventually find a lead that would identify the suspect.DNA evidence led detectives to two sons of a man who lived in the Treasure Valley. That man was Frank A. Rodriguez, who lived in Boise around the time of Casper's murder.
"It was kind of bittersweet, you know, because they knew what happened to their mom all of these years and they never knew who the suspect was, any kind of a motive," said Jagosh. "They didn't really have any closure.""You know, she was very gracious to people around her," Paulene Casper said.
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