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Republican politician charged with 1979 cold-case murder of
23-year-old lover after DNA breakthrough on victim's nightgown (Daily Mail)
23-year-old lover after DNA breakthrough on victim's nightgown (Daily Mail)
more, with pictures, at link aboveA Republican politician has been charged with the 1979 murder of his 23-year-old lover - who he is accused of choking to death in her bed.
Pennsylvania builder Gregory Scott Hopkins, 65, was arrested on Sunday after cold-case investigators linked his DNA to the killing of Catherine Janet Walsh, of Monaca.
She was found by her father in her bed, bound and strangled with a bandana, on September 1, 1979, after he could not contact her over Labor Day weekend.
Beaver County prosecutors said police had found new DNA evidence on Walsh's nightgown, the white rope that bound her hands behind her back and the bed sheet that covered her body.
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