An Allentown jury will be asked this week to decide if DNA found on a discarded BB gun proves who killed an elderly widow in her North Whitehall Township home in 1989.
Michael Breisch, 66, is standing trial in the slaying of 78-year-old Rose Hnath. The Allentown man was arrested last year after DNA collected from one of the alleged murder weapons was traced to him.
Hnath was last seen alive on the morning of Jan. 21, 1989, doing yardwork outside her Second Street home. When she failed to show up for Mass, family members went to check on her and found her body…