A 1975 cold case murder was finally solved with the help of an old cassette tape and a picture of the victim, according to the police in Howard County, Maryland.
Roseann Sturtz was just 20 when she was reported missing on Aug. 24, 1975. Her body was recovered months later on Dec. 15 of that year in a wooded area off Route 108 in Columbia, Maryland.
Sturtz was strangled after meeting her assailant at a bar, detectives determined, but the case baffled the cops until a review of the probe late last year unveiled evidence that showed that an already convicted killer serving a life sentence was behind the crime.
Charles William Davis Jr. is accused of assaulting Sturtz, then dumping her body in the woods. A press release from the Howard County Police Department stated that she “sustained trauma to her body which resulted in her death.”…