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Convicted Hawaii killer now tied to cold case murder
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Detectives say they’ve acquired a break in a decades-old homicide case on Hawaii Island.
Authorities started trying into the chilly case final yr. New info led them to determine Steven Simpson because the suspect within the homicide of a California lady in 1978.
He was indicted Wednesday by a Hilo grand jury for the crime that ended the lifetime of 26-year-old Valerie Warshay.
Her nude physique was discovered badly crushed on the Harry Ok. Brown Park in Kapalana by a younger woman picnicking along with her household. Warshay was a park ranger from Northern California visiting Hawaii.
The only-charge indictment was returned as Simpson stays locked up for a separate homicide.
Heʻs already serving a life sentence in Hawaii for strangling one other younger lady to dying in Hilo in 1978.
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