For years, one of Contra Costa’s most brutal homicide’s remained unsolved. Then a letter addressed to police arrived from prison
CROCKETT — It took a quarter-century after 21-year-old Priscilla Lewis was brutally beaten and drowned inside a pizza restaurant bathroom before a suspect was arrested and charged.
One letter was a confession. Two others blamed a man named “Paul” for Lewis’ killing and offered assistance in solving it, according to police. Lewis’ brutal 1996 slaying shook the quiet Crockett community and led to decades of speculation as to who could have been responsible. Police developed numerous theories and possible suspects, from passers-by to locals, while Lewis’ loved ones tried to keep the case alive in the public’s memory. In 2019, her friends and family held a vigil outside the pizza restaurant where she was killed.
In 2015, new advances in DNA gathering allowed authorities to collect a sample from a small piece of Lewis’ clothing, but the sample was too small to be used to search the state’s DNA database, known as CODIS. However, lab technicians told investigators that if a suspect ever surfaced, they could test the sample against his or her DNA.
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