A teenage suspect was arrested last week in the murder of a Columbia University graduate, who was found strangled near a Panama beach with her pink cover-up wrapped around her neck, the country’ public ministry announced Tuesday. Panama’s Attorney General’s Office said more than 200 DNA tests and 89 raids in the last eight months led officials to the suspect. The unidentified alleged killer was taken into custody in Bocas del Toro in connection with Catherine Johannet’s death. Local reports said Johannet’s pink beach cover-up she was initially wearing was wrapped around her neck when she died. Johannet graduated from Columbia University in 2015 and traveled to Hanoi, Vietnam to work as a teacher at Ivy Prep Academy, The Journal News reported, citing her LinkedIn profile.

Source: Fox News October 26, 2017 17:03 UTC