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A 78-year-old man incarcerated practically 2,000 miles away has been charged with the 1980 sexual assault and homicide of a 25-year-old Texas nursing scholar, Austin police stated in a press launch Friday.
Because of DNA expertise, police say Deck Brewer Jr. — at present serving time in Massachusetts for an unrelated crime — allegedly kidnapped and killed Susan Leigh Wolfe a block from her dwelling round 10 p.m. on Jan. 9, 1980, whereas strolling to a pal’s home.
Wolfe had simply enrolled on the College of Texas Austin Faculty of Nursing that day and was simply 4 days from her twenty sixth birthday, when she was murdered.
A witness to the kidnapping stated they noticed a automobile cease and the suspect grabbed Wolfe off the sidewalk in a “bear hug” and compelled her inside after throwing a coat over her head.
AUTHORITIES SEEK PUBLIC’S HELP IDENTIFYING SUSPECTED TEXAS SERIAL KILLER AFTER DNA LINKS PERSON TO 2 MURDERS
Susan Leigh Wolfe, 25, was kidnapped a block from her dwelling round 10 p.m. on Jan. 9, 1980, whereas strolling to a pal’s home. (Austin Police Division)
Investigators discovered her useless from a gunshot wound in an alley the following morning with proof of strangulation and sexual assault. The witness additionally thought he noticed one other particular person within the automobile, which might have been a second suspect.
Within the first 12 months, investigators with the Austin Police Division adopted up on dozens of leads and at one level had as many as 40 individuals of curiosity, and interviewed at the least six suspects.
In April of final 12 months, detectives with the division’s Chilly Case Unit submitted crime scene DNA proof to the Texas DPS Crime Laboratory and final February the outcomes eradicated the six recognized suspects.
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Deck Brewer Jr. has been charged within the decades-old homicide of Susan Leigh Wolfe. (Austin Police Division)
The proof was entered into the Mixed DNA Index System (CODIS), a nationwide DNA database of convicted offenders, unsolved crime scene proof, and lacking individuals.
In March, Brewer was recognized as a doable match. Then final month, after a DNA search warrant, Brewer got here again as a match.
Wolfe had simply enrolled within the College of Texas Austin Faculty of Nursing on the day she was murdered. (Google Maps)
Brewer admitted to investigators that he had been in Austin and across the time of the homicide, however wouldn’t say anymore with out a lawyer.
The APD stated the possibility Brewer’s DNA was incorrectly matched is one in 550.5 quintillion.
“One quintillion is adopted by 18 zeros,” police stated.
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The case continues to be energetic and investigators wish to establish the particular person the witness stated they noticed within the passenger seat when Wolfe was kidnapped.
Suspect, 78, charged in 44-year-old Texas chilly case kidnapping, homicide of nursing scholar
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