Too bad he took the coward's way out, But, final justice was waiting for him.

"Police in Spokane, Washington, say they have finally solved the cold-case rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl in 1959.
John Reigh Hoff, who died in 1970, was this week declared responsible for the brutal assault and strangulation of Candy Rogers more than 62 years ago after a DNA sample from his exhumed body matched that from a preserved sample of semen found on the child’s clothes"

https://www.aol.com/news/man-r....aped-killed-9-old-14