Nearly 40 years after the killing of a former Playboy Club star stunned a Florida community, investigators say new DNA technology could finally bring long-awaited answers. Detectives in St. Petersburg are reopening the 1984 murder of Carolyn Merricks, a former Suncoast Playboy Bunny of the Year whose stabbing death inside her apartment has remained unsolved for decades.
According to Fox13, Merricks was 28 years old when relatives went to check on her after being unable to reach her. What they found inside her South St. Petersburg apartment was a violent crime scene.
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According to St. Petersburg Police Detective Wally Pavelski, Merricks’ body was discovered just inside a doorway. “It looked like a struggle had occurred in the apartment,” Pavelski said…