DNA found in a suburban Los Angeles motel room 35 years ago has helped crack a cold case — the murder of a man and the rape of a woman. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Manuel Fraga-Madan’s arrest in the decades-old, unsolved case Monday. The crimes took place in a motel room in Lennox, Calif., on July 12, 1984. SUSPECT IN CALIFORNIA COLD CASE RAPE, MURDER WEARS CORONAVIRUS FACE MASK IN MUG SHOT“When Williams returned to the room, the two men demanded money and drugs from him,” the DA's office said in a news release. DNA from the room matched with Fraga-Madan’s DNA, which was on file in a criminal database, the paper reported.

Source: Fox News May 05, 2020 16:41 UTC