Suspect in 1998 cold case homicide of Sheryl Crandel died decades after crime, police say

The Brief

  • Police identify Baari Shabazz as suspect in Sheryl Crandel’s 1998 killing.
  • Shabazz died in 2019 at age 69, decades after the crime.
  • Genetic genealogy helped solve the cold case this fall, investigators say.

CHEVERLY, MD. Authorities say the suspect identified in the decades‑old killing of hospital administrator Sheryl Crandel died in 2019.

Crandel was murdered in her office at the Prince George’s Hospital Center on Jan. 13, 1998.

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