A 9-year-old girl was raped and murdered in Washington state in 1959. More than 6 decades later, police finally identified who did it.
The man, John Reigh Hoff, died by suicide at the age of 31 in 1970, but his daughter provided DNA to investigators in Spokane that helped solve the murder of Candy Rogers, the city’s police department said in a news release.
Candy was selling camp fire mints in her Spokane neighborhood when she vanished March 6, 1959. Sixteen days later, after a sprawling search effort turned deadly — two airmen with the Air Force died after their helicopter struck a power line — her body was found in the woods a few miles from her home.Hoff, then 20, was in the Army and stationed at the Fairchild Air Force base in Spokane County.
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