Mark Personette was arrested in suburban Denver in connection with the 1978 death of 15-year-old Marissa Harvey.
girl in San Francisco more than four decades ago has been charged with murder in her death, prosecutors said. Mark Stanley Personette, 76, was arrested in suburban Denver in December following a joint operation by San Francisco police, the FBI and the Jefferson County Sheriff's office. He was booked for investigation of homicide in connection with the 1978 death of 15-year-old Marissa Harvey.
The case sat cold for 43 years until a DNA hit in a genealogy database linked DNA taken from the crime scene to Personette, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin said in a statement. Harvey, of New York, was visiting her sister in San Francisco when she didn't return from a day trip to Golden Gate Park, where she planned to do some horse riding. Her body was found a day later in nearby Sutro Heights Park.
The case was solved after investigators used a third-party DNA database and found genetic information from a relative, which led to Mr. Personnette's identification and arrest, Boudin said.
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