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Phyllis Flagler, addicted to drugs and pregnant, was found dead almost exactly 11 years ago, strangled and half-naked in a Dania Beach vacant lot.
Eight years later, Janet Ramos, 20 and trying to escape a tough past, was found in a similar position in a parking lot in Deerfield Beach: upright, strangled to death, her shirt pulled up.
Their murders have remained unsolved -- but police may now have a suspect, and he's already in jail.
Newly matched DNA evidence has linked a man arrested earlier this year on unrelated rape charges with the two unsolved murders, police records show.
Alvin Merrit, 56, is in the Miami-Dade County Jail awaiting trial on two sexual battery charges. He has not been charged in the Flagler and Ramos murders.
Ramos was among at least 15 women, many of whom were prostitutes or had drug problems, whose murders went unsolved in Broward County between 1999 and 2003. The outcome of those cases was unclear on Friday.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/13520457.htm
Eight years later, Janet Ramos, 20 and trying to escape a tough past, was found in a similar position in a parking lot in Deerfield Beach: upright, strangled to death, her shirt pulled up.
Their murders have remained unsolved -- but police may now have a suspect, and he's already in jail.
Newly matched DNA evidence has linked a man arrested earlier this year on unrelated rape charges with the two unsolved murders, police records show.
Alvin Merrit, 56, is in the Miami-Dade County Jail awaiting trial on two sexual battery charges. He has not been charged in the Flagler and Ramos murders.
Ramos was among at least 15 women, many of whom were prostitutes or had drug problems, whose murders went unsolved in Broward County between 1999 and 2003. The outcome of those cases was unclear on Friday.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/13520457.htm