Police solve 47-year-old murder of Indiana college student Pamela Milam

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Authorities in Indiana said that the 1972 murder of a college student has been solved, marking the latest example of a cold case cleared through DNA testing and genealogy.

marking the latest example of a cold case cleared through DNA testing and genealogyTerre Haute Police Chief Shawn Keen identified Jeffrey Lynn Hand as the possible killer of Pamela Milam, 19.

“It’s been a long 46 years, seven months and 20 days,” Milam’s sister, Charlene Sanford, said during a news conference Monday. “Many of us, as we got older, thought we would die before we ever learned who killed our sister.”Pamela MilamMilam was last seen on the night of Sept. 15, 1972, leaving a sorority event at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, southwest of Indianapolis, Keen said. Her body was found bound and gagged in the trunk of her car the next night.

Last year, Keen began working with Parabon NanoLabs, a Virginia-based company that works with law enforcement using DNA, ancestry databases and traditional genealogical work, to try and solve Milam’s murder.

 

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May she rest in peace and i hope this gives her family the justice they surely seek

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