Cold case arrest made in Florida woman's killing nearly 25 years later
Police in Florida arrested a man Thursday who they say is responsible for the 1999 killing of a woman, closing the homicide case nearly 25 years after it occurred.
Police in Florida arrested a man Thursday who they say is responsible for the 1999 killing of a woman, closing the homicide case nearly 25 years after it occurred.
Sherry Holtz was found dead in a wooded area in Sanford, Florida, on Dec. 4, 1999, Sanford Police Department officers said at a Friday news conference. A person walking through the woods collecting cans found Holtz’s body, said police spokesperson Bianca Gillett.
Holtz, a Sanford resident, was 50 years old when she died, Gillett said.
When her body was discovered, authorities found her throat cut and evidence she had suffered blunt-force trauma, strangulation and sexual battery. Gillett said she was found with her clothes pulled off, “exposing most of her body.”
“There’s no other way to describe it but a brutal homicide,” Gillett said, adding that Holtz was found on her back on a concrete slab.
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