Justice After 39 Years - Touch or Trace DNA
The victim was found deceased in her bathtub on Monday, December 5, 1977. She had a scarf tied around her head covering her eyes and nose. She had been gagged with a halter top that was tied around her mouth. The halter top was submitted for DNA collection using the M-Vac® in September of 2013. DNA testing was performed on the resulting sample.
It yielded a DNA profile which was entered into the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). In December 2016, 39 years after the murder, a match was made.
Sharon Lecia Schollmeyer's murderer, who was her building manager, admitted post-Miranda in March 2017 to using his key to enter her apartment late at night. He was sentenced in June 2017, following a plea deal to murder in the second degree, a first-degree felony.
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