04-12-2019, 04:25 PM
An arrest has been made in the oldest unsolved murder case in Snohomish County, Washington.
As with so many of the other cold case arrests over the last couple of years, LE used genetic genealogy databases to search for family connections to the DNA recovered at the crime scene and pin point a suspect.
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Jody Loomis (right), 20, was last seen Aug. 23, 1972 riding her bike from her home in Mill Creek, north of Seattle, to the pasture where her horse was boarded.
She never made it to the field. Later that day, an 18-year-old girl and her friend found Loomis near death in a heavily wooded area. She had been sexually assaulted and shot in the head.
The woman who found Loomis as a teen, Cathy Lenac, told KIRO she drove the mortally wounded woman to a hospital, but a doctor there informed her that Loomis had died.
The case went unsolved for nearly 50 years until a DNA match was made. After getting a familial DNA hit using a public ancestry website, LE investigated the family members and narrowed suspicion down to Terrance Miller (left).
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As with so many of the other cold case arrests over the last couple of years, LE used genetic genealogy databases to search for family connections to the DNA recovered at the crime scene and pin point a suspect.
Jody Loomis (right), 20, was last seen Aug. 23, 1972 riding her bike from her home in Mill Creek, north of Seattle, to the pasture where her horse was boarded.
She never made it to the field. Later that day, an 18-year-old girl and her friend found Loomis near death in a heavily wooded area. She had been sexually assaulted and shot in the head.
The woman who found Loomis as a teen, Cathy Lenac, told KIRO she drove the mortally wounded woman to a hospital, but a doctor there informed her that Loomis had died.
The case went unsolved for nearly 50 years until a DNA match was made. After getting a familial DNA hit using a public ancestry website, LE investigated the family members and narrowed suspicion down to Terrance Miller (left).
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