Aurora police use fingerprints, DNA to identify suspects in 18-year-old’s unsolved 1986 abduction, murder

AURORA, Colo. — Fingerprint and DNA evidence in the unsolved 1986 murder of a young woman in Aurora led detectives to a man already serving a 40 years-to-life prison sentence in another killing, 9NEWS Investigates has learned.

A judge has signed an arrest warrant for Ricky Saathoff, 65, in the June 1986 murder of Donna Sue Wayne, an 18-year-old who vanished under mysterious circumstances.

A man driving along Picadilly Road a month later stopped to look at something in a field and discovered her badly decomposed body…

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