DNA links suspect to 1979 California cold case killing —decades after he passed lie detector test

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DNA links suspect to 1979 California cold case killing —decades after he passed lie detector test
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A man who was cleared by a polygraph test for the rape and murder of a teenage girl in 1979 has now been linked to the suspect with newfound DNA evidence, authorities revealed.

The man, later identified as Lewis Randolph “Randy” Williamson, was asked by sheriff’s investigators to take a polygraph test, which he agreed to and passed, clearing “him of any wrongdoing.”Wild conspiracy theories may have sparked tragic twist in Hannah Kobayashi's missing persons case The cold case team then confirmed that Williamson’s DNA matched the DNA recovered from Gonzalez’s body.that the murder had been in Riverside County’s cold case unit since the unit’s launch about five years ago, and multiple investigators have worked to solve it.“I can’t imagine what it’s like for them,” Corey told the outlet. “That whole family has just been devastated over the years. This is a day in and day in, day out thing.

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