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DNA proof cracks 1981 Henderson chilly case

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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A protracted-unsolved case involving the killing of a 20-year-old girl has been closed, based on Henderson Police.

In a information launch from Henderson Police, it was introduced that the case centered across the March 1981 killing of Vicki Radig has been closed. She was 20 years previous on the time. Her household reported her lacking when she did not return from work.

Investigators obtained studies that Radig had gone out together with her boyfriend, Walter Bradley DeMint, when she disappeared. Her physique was discovered two days later in a desert space off Boulder Freeway.

Her dying was brought on by “blunt and sharp force trauma.” Although DeMint was thought of an individual of curiosity and police decided his account of occasions “inconsistent” when in comparison with his unique assertion, investigators did not have sufficient proof to cost him with Radig’s dying.

A long time later, DNA proof indicated that DeMint was the one viable suspect within the case. Though DeMint died in 2007, primarily based on that forensic proof, investigators mentioned he might have confronted a cost of open homicide.

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