A serial rapist who later died of cancer has been identified as the killer of a 23-year-old Harvard graduate student in 1969, ending a nearly 50-year-old mystery, authorities announced Tuesday.
Advances in DNA technology and testing led authorities in Massachusetts to identify Michael Sumpter as the man who raped and killed anthropology student Jane Sanders Britton on Jan. 7, 1969, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan told reporters during a news conference.
“For the past 50 years, the murder of Jane Britton has intrigued members of the public and posed a number of investigatory challenges for law enforcement,” Ryan said. “I am today confident that the mystery of who killed Jane Britton has finally been solved.”
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Now, if they could only solve the Kitty Genovese case.
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