The killer had no criminal history, officials said, but was identified through family DNA analysis.
A DNA analysis has allowed police to confirm the killer of a Florida woman who was 'brutally murdered' in her home nearly 37 years ago, authorities said Monday. Teresa Lee Scalf was killed in her home in Lakeland, Florida, on Oct. 27, 1986 the Polk County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. Detectives found that the attack was 'sexually motivated,' the office said, and Scalf's neck had been severely cut.
Douglas had been interviewed by detectives in 1986 as part of a routine canvass of the neighborhood, but there was 'no evidence to link him to the murder' at that time, police said. Throughout his life, Scalf had no criminal history, so his DNA was never put into a law enforcement database.
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