VT VT - Sarah Hunter, 36, Manchester, 19 September 1986

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Vermont State Police say 52-year-old David Allen Morrison is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 36-year-old Sarah Hunter of Manchester.

Police Lt Tim Oliver says police in Union City, California, contacted Vermont investigators in 2009 after Morrison made statements that led them to suspect he was involved in Hunter's killing.

Police subsequently conducted a DNA analysis of evidence that Morrison, who was a gas station worker at the time, had been in Hunter's car.
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Morrison left Vermont in January 1988. Later that year, he was arrested, and he eventually pleaded guilty to charges of attempted murder, sexual assault and kidnapping in a case in Chula Vista, California.

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wfgodot said:

DNA breakthrough solves mystery of female golf pro found murdered in 1986 (Daily Mail)

more, with pictures, at link above

Possible serial killer? Vermont police also said that Morrison "had a pattern" and that they're "looking at" what I take to be his possible involvement in other cases.

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The man accused of killing Sarah Hunter 27 years ago in Manchester pleaded not guilty to a murder charge Tuesday in Vermont Superior Court.

David A. Morrison, 54, is currently serving out a lengthy jail sentence in California for kidnapping a woman there and attempting to rape and kill her.

The murder charge carries a life sentence upon conviction.

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A man recently charged in the 1986 killing of a popular country club golf pro had the charges against him thrown out on Friday because of an evidence error involving one of the victim's hairs.

The Bennington County state's attorney dismissed the charges against David Allan Morrison after it was discovered that a hair from the victim thought to have been found in Morrison's car and sent to an FBI lab for analysis actually was found in the victim's car, the state Department of Public Safety said.

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Police subsequently conducted a DNA analysis of evidence that Morrison, who was a gas station worker at the time, had been in Hunter's car.

Oliver says Morrison had been a suspect, but police couldn't find enough evidence to charge him until they reprocessed his car, which was seized by police in 1988.

Evidence from the car was re-analyzed, and police matched hair found in the car to Hunter by comparing it to DNA from Hunter’s sister.

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State Police are reviewing the evidence in a 1986 murder case which they were forced to drop earlier this year after hair samples were mislabeled.

Vermont State Police Detective Sgt. Scott Dunlap said the evidence collected from the investigation into the murder of Sarah Hunter is being looked at anew.

"We are reviewing the evidence right now and were are going to decide what's going to be sent out to be tested," said Dunlap on Tuesday.

He intends to meet with Bennington County State's Attorney Erica Marthage to decide what evidence will be sent to the Vermont Forensics Laboratory and what, if any, will be sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigations for further tests.

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luckyseven said:

Vermont State Police continue to investigate decades old killing
Posted: 06/03/2015 09:44:36 PM EDT

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