Harold Carpenter’s arrest in the 1979 killing was the product of investigative genetic genealogy, with authorities in Washington matching his DNA from a rape kit in a separate crime he allegedly committed to the DNA recovered from a woman's murder scene
And for more than 40 years, her alleged killer roamed free, an unidentified suspect in a brutal beating and strangling at a South Lake Tahoe campground.Advertisement
This year, the sexual assault kit from the 1994 case was tested as part of the Washington state attorney general’s office’s Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, which began in 2017 when the state received a $3-million federal grant to try to eliminate its sexual assault kit backlog. “Cases like this illustrate the need to test every sexual assault kit and get their DNA profiles loaded into the federal database,” Washington Atty. Gen. Bob Ferguson said in a statement. “Every untested kit could be a potential break in a cold case.”
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