The Austin Police Department has charged Deck Brewer Jr. in the 1980 cold case murder of Susan Leigh Wolfe, who was abducted from her neighborhood.
A 78-year-old man incarcerated nearly 2,000 miles away has been charged with the 1980 sexual assault and murder of a 25-year-old Texas nursing student, Austin police said in a press release Friday. Thanks to DNA technology, police say Deck Brewer Jr., currently serving time in Massachusetts for an unrelated crime, allegedly kidnapped and killed Susan Leigh Wolfe a block from her home around 10 p.m. on Jan. 9, 1980, while walking to a friend’s house.
Investigators found her dead from a gunshot wound in an alley the next morning with evidence of strangulation and sexual assault. The witness also thought he saw another person in the car, which could have been a second suspect. In the first year, investigators with the Austin Police Department followed up on dozens of leads and at one point had as many as 40 persons of interest, and interviewed at least six suspects.
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