Vanilla Coke Can Solves Murder Case from 1981
Investigators in Colorado claim they have finally solved a decades-old cold murder case. They have charged a 62-year-old Nebraska man with the brutal murder after using an empty Vanilla Coke can to gather DNA connecting him to the crime scene.
During a press conference, officials said David Dwayne Anderson has been formally charged with the sexual assault and murder of Sylvia Quayle.
Sylvia, 35, was murdered on Aug. 3, 1981. The next morning, her father discovered her nude body inside her Cherry Hills Village residence.
According to authorities, Sylvia was sexually assaulted before being strangled, stabbed, and shot in the head.
Investigators never gave up on the case. They tested an area rug from the crime scene in 1995. They determined it contained DNA that did not belong to the victim.
In 2000, a male DNA profile was developed and submitted to two national genetics databases.
Late last month, a match determined the DNA was Anderson’s. Investigators traveled to Nebraska to collect two bags of his trash.
Detectives found used alcohol bottles, as well as a discarded can of Vanilla Coke. They were able to recover genetic material from the can that matched the DNA found on the area rug.
Anderson was arrested on Feb. 10 in Nebraska.
He will be extradited back to Colorado, where he’s charged with two counts of first-degree murder.
Anderson will be prosecuted under the laws in place back in 1981, District Attorney John Kellner announced. If convicted, he’d likely be sentenced to life without parole.
People ARE CRAZY now a days and NO ONE it seems are willing to help out anyone in distress!! That lady is LUCKY she hadn’t met me because regardless if it was my child or not, I would have OPENED A CAN OF WHOOP A** on her COVID 19 or not!! TOO MANY people are getting away with ALOT of events..WHERE IS Security or the police when you need them?? SMH