DNA obtained through a traffic stop linked a 76-year-old man to two decades-old killings in California

A 76-year-old California man accused of two decades-old murders was arrested after his DNA was collected from a breathalyzer during an unrelated traffic stop,

A 76-year-old California man accused of two decades-old murders was arrested after his DNA was collected from a breathalyzer during an unrelated traffic stop, a law enforcement official said Friday.

James Gary, of Fairfield, was charged with murder earlier this week in the 1996 killing of Winifred Douglas, 46, whose body was found on the side of an interstate in Vallejo, the Solano County Sheriff’s Office and Union City Police Department said in a joint statement. 

Douglas had been strangled and suffered blunt force trauma, the statement said.

Additional charges are expected in the 1980 killing of Latrelle Lindsay, 46. She was found dead in her Union City home, a victim of sexual assault, asphyxiation and blunt force trauma, the statement said.

Though authorities determined in 2012 that the DNA profile from the Solano case matched a piece of evidence in the Union City case, no suspect as was identified in the killings, the departments said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dna-obtained-traffic-stop-linked-76-year-old-man-two-decades-old-killi-rcna39672


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