Government
Sep. 26, 2009
LAPD Cracking Cold Homicides
The Los Angeles Police Department's cold case homicide unit has solved 75 old cases since its creation in late 2001.
Daily Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - It was the week before Christmas, 1975, when a burglar attacked Alice Lewis inside her Mar Vista home. The next day, police investigators found signs of forced entry through a back door. Lewis, 80, had been raped. She died of suffocation. For more than three decades, the killing went unsolved. A break in the case came a month ago when DNA taken from a Los Angeles man arrested in April ...
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