50-year-old Colorado cold case solved after DNA technology identifies woman's killer
For nearly 50 years, no one knew what happened to Teree Becker.
For nearly 50 years, no one knew what happened to Teree Becker.
She was last seen Dec. 4, 1975, hitchhiking to see her boyfriend in Brighton, Colorado. Two days later, her body was found dumped in a field outside Denver.
Two passing motorcyclists discovered Becker in the area of 100th Avenue and Lowell Boulevard in Westminster, about 10 miles north of Denver, along with her clothes and personal items, local police said.
Teree Becker.via Westminster PDAn autopsy determined she had been raped and died by asphyxiation, the Westminster Police Department said.
Over the past five decades, investigators have returned to the case again and again. Finally, 48 years later, the mystery of her killer has been solved thanks to DNA technology and genetic genealogy.
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