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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

It's Tuesday, June 26th. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning.

Police use geological information, genealogical information from a close relative

to identify the suspect in a rape and strangulation of an elementary school teacher in 1992

and charged him Monday with a long unsolved killing. A Lancaster County detective accused 49-year-old

Raymond Charles Rowe, a popular DJ of beating Christy Murak to death inside of her home.

She prepared to go to work teaching a sixth grade class.

She had suffered a broken jaw in addition to strangulation and evidence of a violent sexual

assault.

We never let this case go, but investigators had run out of suspects, said the Lancaster

District Attorney Craig Stedman.

This has not been easy, but one of the

reasons we've stuck with it and never forgotten is because it was so disturbing. The DNA left at the

crime scene by the assailant never triggered a match, and Roe had not been a suspect during the

years of investigation, Stedman said. In December of 1992, Roe lived about four miles from the apartment

Murak shared with her roommate.

It's unclear if they knew each other.

Stedman recently hired a private company to use the DNA to search for relatives of the suspect,

and that process identified Roe.

An undercover investigation at an elementary school where he was performing on May 31st as

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