The arrest was made after matching the suspect's DNA on a discarded coffee cup and the DNA left on the victim's clothing, according to investigators.
The first crime committed by the East Area Rapist occurred in mid-1976 in the Sacramento area. Over the next decade, more than 45 women were raped and 12 people were murdered by the man later called the Golden State Killer.
"It was really tugging at me, so I decided to develop a new approach," she said."There was a very clear migration pattern from a town in southern Italy called Gasperina, to Lancaster, Pennsylvania." She said she learned about 2,300 Italians lived in Lancaster at the time of the crime -- which for her was a"manageable" number.
Moore said she compared those membership cards with Ellis Island records and World War I and II draft registration cards to identify the men who moved from Gasperina to Lancaster, and then worked to identify their descendants.After looking at all Italian families in Lancaster in 1975, Moore said she zeroed in on 68-year-old David Sinopoli. All of his grandparents were from Gasperina, Moore said, and he had previously lived in Biechler's apartment complex, prosecutors said.
Sinopoli, who has lived in Lancaster since the murder, was arrested at his home on Sunday on a charge of criminal homicide, prosecutors announced Monday. His preliminary hearing is set for July 25. No defense attorney is listed.
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