Prosecutors on Long Island say Herbert Rice was the attacker who killed Eve Wilkowitz in 1980 after raping and strangling her.
BAY SHORE, N.Y. -- A DNA match helped police solve the murder of a 20-year-old woman who was killed in 1980, authorities in New York announced Wednesday.
"We've solved the 42-year-old homicide case of Eve Wilkowitz," Suffolk District Attorney Raymond Tierney said at a news conference."This was a study in persistence, in determination to work the case no matter what." Suffolk County police and prosecutors said advances in genetic genealogy pointed to Rice, who was 29 years old at the time of the killing and was living with his mother near where the body was found.
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