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A single drop of blood has led to the arrest of a suspect within the unsolved 1989 murders of Catherine and George Peacock in Danby, Vermont, police say.
George, 76, and Catherine, 73, had been killed of their residence in September 1989, in line with the Vermont State Police web site. The couple had been stabbed to loss of life and there was no signal of pressured entry.
Police introduced in a information launch on Thursday that they’d lastly arrested a suspect within the case after a long time of investigation involving detectives and cold-case specialists. The suspect, Michael Anthony Louise, 79, was arrested at his residence in Syracuse, New York, on two counts of second-degree homicide and is being jailed in New York pending extradition to Vermont.
CNN was unable to find out if Louise has an legal professional.
Louise was married to one of many Peacocks’ daughters on the time of the murders, in line with the information launch. He was recognized as a suspect simply two weeks after his in-laws had been killed – however investigators had been unable to determine a “conclusive hyperlink” to the murders, say police.
However in Could 2020, DNA testing confirmed {that a} drop of blood discovered inside Louise’s automotive belonged to George Peacock. The blood had been beforehand examined however the outcomes had been inconclusive, in line with the discharge. Advances in forensic expertise over the previous a long time allowed investigators to match the blood to George, police mentioned.