After more than fifteen years, the murder of a jogger in France has probably been solved. A suspect was brought before an investigating judge on Saturday and subsequently taken into custody, the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office announced.
The investigators tracked down the 18-year-old at the time of the crime through a new analysis of DNA traces on the victim’s car key, according to a statement from the Public Prosecution Service in the Paris suburb on Saturday.
The jogger was killed in June 2008 while jogging south of the city of Orléans. Her body was found in the Loiret River. According to the Public Prosecution Service, the 45-year-old was strangled from behind and then thrown into the water.
The case was transferred in 2022 to a newly created unit in Nanterre that deals with cold cases – old, unsolved crimes. According to the Public Prosecution Service, a new analysis of the traces has made it possible to identify a “genetic profile” on the victim’s car key thanks to “technical progress”.
The suspect thus identified was in the region at the time. He was finally arrested on Tuesday in the southern French city of Toulouse. (sda/afp)
Soource :Watson
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