The Pima County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a cold case that dates back to the 1970s after finding a lead using new DNA technology.
The victim was a girl as young as 17 and thought to be of Honduran descent. Her body was found with gunshot wounds along the side of the I-10 outside Tucson in 1979.
Neither she nor a suspect in her killing has ever been identified. But, a lead has emerged with the help of a newer DNA technology called forensic investigative genetic genealogy…