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Wednesday June 07, 2006
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) New DNA testing has linked a Georgia man to the killings of four Connecticut women in the early 1990s, and investigators believe he may have been involved in up to six other slayings here.
Emanuel Lovell Webb was charged recently with murder in the killing of Elizabeth Gandy, 34, on April 19, 1993, prosecutor Jonathan Benedict said.
Webb, 40, is in prison in Georgia on a parole violation. Benedict said authorities were discussing his extradition to Connecticut.
Webb was linked to Gandy's slaying after cold-case detectives began reinvestigating the killings of about 15 Bridgeport women in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Benedict said.
During that time, young women were found dead in vacant buildings and lots in the city's seedy East End.
Webb knew some of the women. Others he met through work, friends or at bars.
``One of the commonalities was him,'' Bridgeport police Lt. James Viadero said. ``He happened to know them or had met him or was the last person to have see them. He just kept on popping up.''
Detectives discovered that 10 homicides from that period had similar characteristics, and sent evidence from four of the cases to the FBI to compare evidence with DNA profiles of convicted felons nationwide. Such profiles were not available in the early 1990s.
The identification system recorded DNA ``hits'' for Webb in the killings of Gandy and three other Bridgeport women: Sharon Cunningham, Minnie Sutton and Sheila Etheridge.
Police are continuing to look into the homicides of Cunningham, Sutton, Etheridge and other women killed around the same time, Benedict said.
Webb lived with his sister, Bernice Snead, and a girlfriend in the East End from 1987 through 1993, the Connecticut Post reported Wednesday.
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This is great news on some of these cold cases
Wednesday June 07, 2006
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) New DNA testing has linked a Georgia man to the killings of four Connecticut women in the early 1990s, and investigators believe he may have been involved in up to six other slayings here.
Emanuel Lovell Webb was charged recently with murder in the killing of Elizabeth Gandy, 34, on April 19, 1993, prosecutor Jonathan Benedict said.
Webb, 40, is in prison in Georgia on a parole violation. Benedict said authorities were discussing his extradition to Connecticut.
Webb was linked to Gandy's slaying after cold-case detectives began reinvestigating the killings of about 15 Bridgeport women in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Benedict said.
During that time, young women were found dead in vacant buildings and lots in the city's seedy East End.
Webb knew some of the women. Others he met through work, friends or at bars.
``One of the commonalities was him,'' Bridgeport police Lt. James Viadero said. ``He happened to know them or had met him or was the last person to have see them. He just kept on popping up.''
Detectives discovered that 10 homicides from that period had similar characteristics, and sent evidence from four of the cases to the FBI to compare evidence with DNA profiles of convicted felons nationwide. Such profiles were not available in the early 1990s.
The identification system recorded DNA ``hits'' for Webb in the killings of Gandy and three other Bridgeport women: Sharon Cunningham, Minnie Sutton and Sheila Etheridge.
Police are continuing to look into the homicides of Cunningham, Sutton, Etheridge and other women killed around the same time, Benedict said.
Webb lived with his sister, Bernice Snead, and a girlfriend in the East End from 1987 through 1993, the Connecticut Post reported Wednesday.
More at link above ..............
This is great news on some of these cold cases
