THE brutal homicide of a teen went unsolved for 47 years – till detectives bought their arms on a bit of proof discarded at an airport.
Police retrieved a espresso cup thrown away by suspect David Sinopoli, who’s now charged within the 1975 homicide of 19-year-old Lindy Sue Biechler.
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Biechler’s aunt and uncle discovered her physique 47 years in the past with a knife protruding of her neck.
She had been stabbed 19 occasions in her again whereas at her Pennsylvania residence.
There have been grocery luggage nonetheless on the counter as she had simply returned from the shop, investigators stated.
The Manor Township Police Division carried out investigations and adopted a number of leads for years after the crime, however the DA’s workplace was not capable of finding a compelling suspect.
SUSPECT FOUND
David Sinopoli had lived in the identical four-unit constructing as Biechler which had a shared foyer, Lancaster County District Lawyer Heather Adams stated in response to WGAL.
Adams didn’t identify any connection between Biechler and Sinopoli aside from their shared constructing.
Investigators used DNA family tree to determine Sinopoli as a possible suspect.
This new know-how makes use of a DNA pattern together with household timber, public archives, databases, and court docket data to pinpoint a suspect, WGAL reported.
“It is outstanding to assume that in 1975, DNA did not exist, no less than within the legal court docket system,” Adams stated.
Officers with Parabon NanoLabs collected DNA from Biechler’s clothes to find out the ethnicity of the suspect.
They discovered the suspected assassin was from a small city in southern Italy known as Gasperina.
“These restrictions additional narrowed the scope of the following analysis as a result of there have been only a few people residing in Lancaster at the moment of the crime that had been the proper age, gender and had the household tree per these origins,” Moore stated in response to WGAL.
COFFEE CUP CLUE
Police determined to observe Sinopoli to the Philadelphia airport after they recognized him as a suspect.
On the airport, the suspect threw away a espresso cup that police recovered with the intention to gather a DNA pattern and ensure the Parabon NanoLabs tip, investigators stated.
“It is a extremely scientific tip, however a tip simply the identical,” Moore stated.
Moore introduced on Monday that officers had arrested David Vincent Sinopoli of East Hempfield Township who’s now 68.
“Lindy Sue Biechler was 19 when her life was brutally taken away from her 46 years in the past within the sanctity of her own residence,” Adams stated.
“The arrest of David Sinopoli marks the start of the court docket course of and we hope that it brings some sense of reduction to the victims’ family members and to the neighborhood, who for the previous 47 years have had no solutions.”
Sinopoli faces one cost of legal murder.
