Mahdollinen 70-luvun sarjamurhaaja kiinni Yhdysvalloissa

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New Yorkissa asuva 80-vuotias tummaihoinen mies Ernest Broadnax on yhdistetty DNA:n avulla vuoden 1973 Virginia Beachin kaksoismurhaan, jossa kaksi Pittsburghista kotoisin ollutta 19-vuotiasta tyttöä, Lynn Seethaler ja Janice Pietropola surmattiin vuokramökkiinsä kesken lomamatkansa. Pietropola oli lisäksi raiskattu.
Broadnaxin pidätys saattaa olla merkittävä läpimurto, sillä Virginia Beachissa tapahtui 70-luvun ja 80-luvun aikana kymmeniä selvittämättömiä naismurhia ja poliisi on ilmoittanut vuonna 2011, että kaikki naiset ovat tulleet sarjamurhaajien murhaamiksi.
Omien tutkimusteni mukaan Virginia Beachin tapauksista on aiemmin saatu kiinni kaksi sarjamurhaajaa ja edelleen selvittämättömien tapausten takana on todennäköisesti ollut kolme muuta sarjamurhaajaa. Yksi näistä kolmesta on nyt mahdollisesti saatu kiinni.
Broadnax oli puhunut naapureilleen New Yorkissa, että hän on menneisyydessään satuttanut ihmisiä, mutta naapurit eivät osanneet arvata, mitä mies sanomisillaan todella tarkoitti.


80-year-old busted for 1973 cold-case slayings in Virginia Beach
By Tina Moore, Alex Taylor and Gabrielle Fonrouge April 9, 2019 | 1:27pm | Updated

A nearly half-century-old cold-case murder of two young women in Virginia has finally been cracked with the arrest of an 80-year-old man in New York, police said Tuesday.

Ernest Broadnax was linked through some recently found DNA evidence to the double slaying, which occurred at a Virginia Beach motel in 1973 and was probed as part of a possible serial-killer pattern.

He’s been living since at least 1990 in the Big Apple and was nabbed Monday on a Virginia arrest warrant by the NYPD’s Cold Case Apprehension Squad in a Hollis Avenue home in St. Albans, Queens.

He has been charged with two counts of murder and one count of rape in the slaughter of Lynn Seethaler and Janice Pietropola, two 19-year-olds from Pittsburgh who were vacationing in the ­resort town.

Virginia Beach police said a “strong” lead surfaced in the case in the fall of 2018, which sources told The Post was DNA evidence eventually linked to Broadnax. Sources said he also made an admission to cops that linked him to the crime.

He is expected to be extradited on April 22.

Broadnax has been described by neighbors as a recluse who actually hinted at a dark past.

“He told me he did something years ago, that he hurt somebody,” a 62-year-old neighbor, who declined to give his name, told The Post. “But he didn’t say anything about killing two people. Damn!”

Police say the crime came in the early morning of Saturday, June 30, 1973, and it was so evil it shocked the community.

Broadnax allegedly climbed through the window of quaint seaside motel cottage that the two women had been renting near the oceanfront.

It was their last night in the town; they were scheduled to check out and return home the next afternoon.

Seethaler, a secretary, had been strangled, shot in the cheek and temple and slashed in the throat with a wine bottle.

Pietropola, an editorial employee at a financial magazine, was raped, strangled and shot three times on the right side of the head.

The women, who were high-school pals, were found in separate rooms, partially clad, with one nude from the waist down.

When their bodies were discovered after they failed to check out, every available detective was put on the case.

But no clues were found at the time, and the violence in the town continued. At least eight other women were killed in the oceanfront area of Virginia Beach over the next 12 years and even more went missing, WTKR in Norfolk reported.

In 2011, Virginia Beach police told the outlet for the first time that all of the victims, including Seethaler and Pietropola, were killed by a serial killer. Although their murders were different, they all had one thing in common: their appearance. The women who were found dead or who disappeared were all white, attractive young women between the ages of 18 and 25.

DNA evidence was recovered from Seethaler and Pietropola’s crime scene and retested by the FBI in 2011, the station said. DNA from two other murders were also recovered and retested using modern technology.

Officials wouldn’t say if Broadnax is a suspect in any of the other crimes. He was charged in a Queens burglary in 1990 and spent two years at an upstate prison.

Additional reporting by Larry Celona

https://nypost.com/2019/04/09/80-year-o ... nia-beach/

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Tässä englanninkielisessa artikkelissa on omituinen juttu, mikä on toistunut muissakin englanninkielisissä medioissa, kun samaa sisältöä on ilmeisesti kopioitu tiedotusvälineiden välillä:

At least eight other women were killed in the oceanfront area of Virginia Beach over the next 12 years and even more went missing, WTKR in Norfolk reported.

Boldaus oma... Tuossa väitetään siis, että vain kahdeksan naista olisi surmattu Virginia Beachilla 12 vuoden ajanjaksolla. En tiedä viitataanko tällä oceanfront arealla siihen aivan ranta-alueeseen, mutta toisissa medioissa on esitetty, että tämä kahdeksan uhria olisi ollut koko Virginia Beachin alueella... Luku kahdeksan on aika pahasti alakanttiin siitä, mitä surmattujen naisten kokonaismäärä oli Virginia Beachin alueella. Tuon noin Porin kokoisen kaupungin alueella tosiaan tapahtui epätavallisen paljon naisiin kohdistuneita seksuaalimurhia. Kaikenkaikkiaan niitä selvittämättömiä on tainnut olla jopa nelisenkymmentä. Mahdollista onkin, että kahdeksan uhria olisi surmattu aivan rannalla ja loput jossain muualla...
Luku kahdeksan liittyy myös vähän enemmän sisämaassa toimineeseen Colonial Parkway killeriin, joka surmasi moraalittomiksi katsomiaan pariskuntia, surmaten yhteensä kahdeksan ihmistä.
Virginia Beach on turistikaupunki, jossa on käynyt kesäisin suuri määrä turisteja.

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