With the help of DNA lifted from a coffee cup, investigators were able to charge a Pennsylvania man with the stabbing of a 19-year-old woman in 1975.
For 46 years, the answer to who killed Lindy Sue Biechler remained a mystery.But with the help of DNA lifted from a coffee cup earlier this year, investigators were able to charge a Pennsylvania man with the stabbing of the 19-year-old woman in 1975.
Over the years, detectives from Manor Township Police Department and the Pennsylvania State Police conducted investigations into the homicide, following multiple leads and clearing dozens of people, the district attorney's office said. Evidence was sent to several labs and multiple suspect interviews were completed, the DA's office reported.
CNN has reached out to the County of Lancaster Public Defender's Office which is representing Sinopoli. Three years later, the DNA profile was submitted into a national database, also known as CODIS, to see if there was a match with a known criminal offender. Typically, if a person isn't a known offender, they wouldn't be in the CODIS system and, therefore, no match would present itself, which was the case here, the DA's office explained.
"There were very few individuals living in Lancaster at the time of the crime that were the right age, gender and had a family tree consistent with these origins, so this allowed me to prioritize candidates whose descent was determined to be exclusively from families with origins in Gasperina," Moore said.
"There has been a never-ending pursuit of justice in this case that has led us to identifying and arresting Sinopoli," Adams said."Lindy Sue Biechler was on the minds of many throughout the years."
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