Discarded coffee cup cracks cold case



A man has been charged in the 1975 stabbing murder of a Pennsylvania teen after DNA evidence from the suspect’s discarded coffee cup linked him to the scene. ABC News’ Andrea Fujii reports.

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45 comments

  1. It’s a shame how he got to be free so long. But glad they got him finally.

  2. Grateful for DNA testing!

  3. Cece's Amazing!!! Love her.😍

  4. Cece's Amazing!!! Love her.😍

  5. Lying ass Brandon got covid I'm so fucking glad

  6. Who is the girl in the picture? She’s scarily gorgeous. I thought she must be a celebrity then this revealed she was murdered.

  7. Murder is still young enough to suffer in prison for a couple decades. Karma 🚔

  8. That's wonderful!!! DNA has come a long way baby.

  9. May they find everyone who ever thought they'd gotten away with murder. I hope this makes those people anxious until the end of their days, even if they're not caught. Keep looking over your shoulder murderers, be afraid, it could happen to you at any moment of any day. Remember that.

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  11. The airport is checking your trash for DNA y’all! U🐝🐂💩N

  12. Fake evidence planted…(and the story happens)

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  14. That will never drink coffee again

  15. theres no statute of limitation for murder.

  16. You know right from wrong and you see your countries leaders are doing wrong. Now the choice to right those who do wrong is upon us you must do your part. Action is needed the time for words has pasted. God bless us all. Never ever vote democrat.

  17. the arm of justice can be very long if you commit murder. dna profiling increases the observational power of the government and justice system by miles.

  18. Cofffee cup was a paid actor

  19. The death of Shinzo Abe and Ivana Trump remind us that life can be over in the blink of an eye. In an instance we will find ourselves standing before Almighty God ready to be judged, on the precipice of spending eternity in Heaven or Hell for trillions and trillions of years to come Something amazing beyond imagination or something horrendous beyond what we can imagine. In a fire with a never ending accusing conscience. These are the two options the bible clearly lays out for us. Truth and reality can be a very hard thing to swallow, it has been for me, but God is the creator and he sets the terms though many lives end in tragedy and heartbreak when we look at life through the lens of God. Did we live our own way? If we examine the life of Ivana Trump she achieved great things. Business woman, was married to one of the leaders of the free world. But all the worldly accolades and successes will amount to nothing when we stand before God. All our charitable deeds, good causes, and social groups we were apart of will mean nothing to God. Jesus said our human righteousness is filthy rags before him and Jesus said to the Rich Young ruler.. Why do you call me good, there is not one that is good but God. So if we think we will escape the wrath of God because we are "good" or did many "good things" we couldn't be further from the truth. As a matter of fact the bible says Jesus came to justify the ungodly. So it is not until there is a recognition of just how ungodly we are do we have a hope of becoming justified. They criticized Jesus for eating with sinners, and prostitutes and Jesus said I did not come to call the righteous but the unrighteous and it is not those who are whole who need a physician but those who are sick. Most people have an extremely shallow understanding of what Jesus is saying in the gospel so by that they are condemned to hell for eternity. The bible is the book in which we will be judged by, have you taken the time to read what is says, do you even care? If not it's time to wake up out of sleep, and stop being distracted. No news of the days or the latest with covid will amount to a hill of beans when we stand before God. Sounds like the harshest thing someone could say to anyone but changing the trajectory of someones eternal destiny though harsh is the most loving thing you could do for anyone. Thinking of the horrors of hell Jesus lays out, and the stringent requirement Jesus lays out to get to Heaven is shocking. They said Lord will only a few be saved and he said I tell you there is a narrow way make every effort to enter for many I tell you will try and they will not be able. And when the master has risen and shuts the door they will began to say Lord open to us, we have done all these works and miracles in your name and he is going to say I know not where you are from, I have never known you. Why? because Jesus requires a God fearing relationship with him to get to Heaven with MANY behavioral imperatives. Not simply profession but a life of willful obedience to all the bible commands. In the bible the rich man fared sumptuously everyday he had all the fine clothes and fine dining while a beggar waited outside his gate longing for the crumbs to fall off the rich mans table, and the dogs licked the beggars sores. They both died the rich man went to hell, and the beggar to Heaven. The rich man lifted up his eyes in torment and said send Lazarus so he may dip his finger in water and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame. Abraham said you had your good things in life and Lazarus experienced many evil things and now he is comforted and you are tormented. And now there is a gulf that you will never cross. The rich man said send someone to warn my brothers so they don't come to this place of torment. and Abraham said they have the preachers and the prophets if they wont hear what they are saying and Repent neither will they listen if someone comes back from the dead. What was the difference bt the two men? The rich man was preoccupied and satisfied living in a fallen world. Lazarus the beggar was willing to come on Christ's terms even though it led to a life of horrible suffering All the disciples of Jesus were martyred in horrible fashions. Not because they have a willy nilly easy believism kind of faith, it is bc they had a message they believed so much they were willing to die for that message. After all they witnessed the death and resurrection of Jesus themselves, how could they deny what they saw with their eyes?That is what Jesus is looking for, The only way anyone is getting into Heaven is if they have been granted to have a relationship with Jesus. Jesus said the wind blows where it will and you hear the sound of it but don't know where its coming from or where it is going so is everyone born of the spirit. Jesus told Nicodemus one of the leaders of the Jews if you are not born again you will IN NO wise enter the Kingdom of Heaven. There is a way that seems right to a man but it ends in death. Those who try to keep their life will lose it, but those who will lose their life for God's sake will find it. John the Baptist came Preaching REPENT! prepare the way of the Lord! Salvation is a very profound and real thing. It is a complete and total transformation of a person by God. God has set apart a people for himself to bring glory to his name and to put his power on display before men and before the Holy Angels and they will be the only ones in Heaven. This is a long message there are so many directions to go from here with more detail but I will save it for another time

  20. You have to seriously question this evidence. Almost 50 years later you find the bad guy? And how many times in the past 30 years has this so called evidence proven to be staged?

  21. Whoever created us sure knew what they were doing.

  22. We have advanced so much.
    This has to be such a relief for the family.
    Now they can, as well as their daughter, have some closure and justice.
    Nobody has the right to take another’s life.

  23. I hope that they're closely digging into this man's history over the decades to see if he might be tied to any other murders. I doubt after committing a brutal murder he decided he was going to be an upstanding citizen for the rest of his life.

  24. I wish the election fraud could be examined like this. We would have a different president.

  25. Jesus Christ called people everywhere to repent, therefore, if you confess with your lips the Lord Jesus and believe with all your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved and inherit the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal life. told other people how good he is, how he saves, heals and liberates and gives eternal life

  26. SO he was 12 years old and killed a 19 year old.
    Police really grasping on this

  27. I love the stories when the bad guy gets caught years later like that cuz you know they thought they were Scot free.

  28. It should be illegal for so-called authorities to use genealogy websites for this purpose.

  29. Reason why the Bible says that the blood speaks

  30. It's just not worth it to murder anymore…the golden days of Jack the Ripper are gone, folks.

    And, yes, this is a joke.

  31. It's crazy how the murderer probably thought he got away with it he was planning to take it to his grave but now his grave will be in prison for life.

  32. This is a little scary to think that the government can track you like this. However, God’s word is true when He says, “the life is in the blood.” I’m glad they were able to catch a killer & bring him to justice in this lifetime! Great detective work!

  33. Imagine he probably thought he got away. Karma's a bitch. Hooray to technology. This monster probably prevented a whole family tree from being born.

    At 19 she probably would've got married with kids and those kids would be grown now having their own kids.

  34. This was great detective work on a cold case. As even casual watchers of the old crime show "Forensic Files" know, advances in DNA research have done much to help solve these old cases. But these cases are often still difficult because the murderers, as in this case, aren't always in a criminal database to make the linkage more straightforward. The forensic investigator had to do a tremendous amount of cross-referencing to find someone with the motive, means, and opportunity to commit this heinous crime. To find the link via people who lived in the very same location as the victim took considerable online research. But once the criminal researchers identified a strong suspect, they simply watched the suspect and waited for the opportunity to obtain a good DNA sample left by the suspect. No warrant was necessary. Once the suspect discarded the coffee cup in the trash can at the airport, it was fair game for forensic analysis. Fantastic work!

  35. So sad for the young woman and her family.

  36. This could easily be a made-for-tv movie!

  37. Yay!! Damn murderer belongs on death row!

  38. Holy 💩! Is this REAL news from ABC News???