Thanks to DNA testing, investigators finally know who killed a 9-year-old girl in Georgia in 1972.
Investigators identified a 9-year-old girl's killer more than 50 years after she was abducted less than a block from her Georgia home, officials said Monday. , a third-grade student, vanished on Jan. 13, 1972, Cobb County District Attorney Flynn Broady said. She had been on her way home from a laundromat. Randall's body was found 16 days later after an extensive search by thousands of people. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled.
They were able to find relatives of the suspect, officials said. Those relatives gave investigators additional DNA samples for comparison. Investigators landed on a man who had not been on their radar at any point during the investigation: William Rose, 24. He'd killed himself in 1974.Debbie Lynn Randall's parents died without ever knowing who killed their daughter, Broady said. Her mother died of leukemia in 2018 and her father died just last year.
Ron Alter, a cold case investigator with the district attorney's office, doesn't believe Rose knew Randall. Rose had family members in the area, so he was likely around often. Rose had prior arrests for alcohol-related incidents. Alter said it's possible Alter killed himself because he was afraid of going to jail.
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