DNA breakthrough: Advanced testing links NJ man to two cold case murders
⚖️ Justice without trial: Suspect died in 2000, decades before ID
️ Cold case success: New unit and genetic genealogy cracked both cases
CAMDEN – Decades after the separate killings of two young women, DNA evidence led police to a local man, who would face murder charges if he were still alive.
Mantua Township resident Francis T. Schooley was just linked to the 1993 murder of 24-year-old Marebeth Welsh, of Woodlynne, and the brutal killing in the following year of 16-year-old Jennifer Persia, of Magnolia.
Schooley died in 2000 at the age of 39.
DNA technology breakthrough solves decades-old NJ cold cases
“Thanks to remarkable advances in DNA technology and diligent detective work, we have finally been able to bring answers to two families who have waited decades for justice,” Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay said in a written release on Thursday…