Justice was slow but it came in the case of a 19-year-old woman who was brutally murdered in Pennsylvania. For almost five decades, his story was one of many that remain unfinished, but what was recently learned is an example of the persistence of the authorities who preserved the evidence and closely followed the suspect until he was identified.
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“This arrest marks the beginning of the criminal process in Lancaster County’s longest-running unsolved homicide case, and we hope it will bring some sense of relief to the victim’s loved ones and members of the community who for the past 46 years they had no answers,” District Attorney Heather Adams said at a news conference.
The December 5, 1975, seemed to be an ordinary day in the life of Lindy Sue Biechler., who went to work at a flower shop and when she left she completed several tasks: she went to her husband’s office for a check, cashed it and then bought groceries at the supermarket. The tragic murder occurred when she came home and was attacked while she was putting away her groceries, between 6:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. According to the authorities, a man entered the house between those hours with the intention of sexually assaulting her and stabbed her 19 times.
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In a terrible image for her uncles, Lindy was found around 8:42 p.m. with a knife stuck in her neck. The hypothesis of an intruder in the house was discarded at the time because they found no evidence of a forced lock, instead, the relatives recalled that she stated feeling watched and persecuted weeks before this outcome.
There were very few people living in Lancaster at the time of the crime who were the correct age and gender and had a consistent family tree.
Although they did not obtain great clues at the scene, the authorities deduced from a footprint that the murderer was a man and collected DNA samples. In 1997, the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office finally profiled a subject who was not identified because he had no criminal record. For years they interviewed hundreds of people and followed dozens of clues without success to find the culprit.
In 2020, the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Cold Case Unit made use of the latest technology in DNA recognition and It was at that moment that David Sinopoli, who was arrested today, entered the list of suspects.yes An expert in genetic genealogy, Cece Moore, discovered that the subject in question had Italian ancestry and that allowed closing the search perimeter.
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Sinopoli, who had lived in the same building as Lindy Sue Biechler, became the main target: “There were very few people living in Lancaster at the time of the crime who were the correct age and gender and had a family tree consistent with these. origins, so this allowed me to prioritize candidates whose offspring were determined to be was exclusively from families with origins in GasperinaMoore explained.
With that information and a pair of portraits that updated the appearance of David Sinopoli, who had not stopped living in Lancaster after the murderthe authorities followed him to the airport with the mission of obtaining a DNA sample to compare it with the evidence found at the crime scene.
A discarded coffee cup at Philadelphia International Airport in February led to the identification of the murderer of the young American.
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“Lindy Sue Biechler was on the minds of many over the years. Certainly, the Police never forgot about Lindy Sue, “said the prosecutor.
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