The fires of hell reached out and got him before the police could.
"Investigative genetic genealogy has identified the killer of a Santee woman found dead in her apartment in 1988, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department announced Wednesday.
The stabbing death of 29-year-old Diane Lynn Dahn is the fifth local cold-case homicide solved through investigative genetic genealogy, sheriff’s officials said. The process matches DNA collected at crimes scenes with samples submitted in public databases, often by people seeking to identify relatives.
Advancements in DNA technology led to the eventual identification of a suspect, Warren Robertson, who lived in the same Graves Avenue apartment complex as the victim. Robertson died in an Indiana house fire in 1999, officials said."
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