A California man suspected of raping and killing a 79-year-old woman more than three decades ago was identified Tuesday after authorities examined fingernail scrapings that provided a DNA match.
Galt Police Chief Brian Kalinowski told reporters that advances in DNA technology allowed investigators to identify Terry Leroy Bramble as the man who allegedly sexually assaulted, strangled and stabbed Lucille Hultgren in her Northern California home in May 1988.
Hultgren, who had two sons, moved to the area 25 years earlier from Ohio and "lived a modest a life by all accounts," Schubert said. "Her church and her faith were important to her."Two of Hultgren’s friends discovered her body in the bedroom of her home when they went to check on her after she missed church, Kalinowski said. The coroner believed her body had been there for between two and five days, he said.
Schubert noted that the sample required to analyze DNA has changed considerably over the years, shrinking from the size of a quarter to "less than one billionth of a Sweet and Low package."
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