84-year-old arrested
Hitchhiker killed: Murder solved after 50 years
Late justice has been served for a murdered hitchhiker from the US state of Wisconsin. 50 years after the brutal crime, a DNA test led to the trail of the now 84-year-old murderer of Mary Schlais, who was stabbed to death at the age of 25.
Schlais wanted to hitch a ride to an art exhibition in Chicago in 1974 - but she was never supposed to get there. The driver who had given her a lift sexually harassed her - when she fought off his attacks, he stabbed her in the back with a knife. The attacker then tried to hide her body in a snow bank. When a car approached, he panicked and ran away - leaving behind a hat that would convict him half a century later.
The cold case was rolled up again and hairs on the headgear were examined. The genetic profile created in the process finally allowed relatives of the murderer to be identified. The police found his daughter - and interrogated Jon Keith Miller 50 years after the brutal crime.
84-year-old was "pretty calm"
He initially denied knowing anything about the case. When confronted with the results of the DNA analysis, he finally confessed. According to the police, Miller was "pretty calm about the incident" when he made his confession. "I think it must even be a relief for him after having to live with it for 50 years. He must have thought about it almost every day," Dunn County Sheriff Kevin Bygd told CNN.
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