🌱 How DNA from Guerneville’s past finally closed a 43-year-old murder case
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- How DNA from Guerneville’s past finally closed a 43-year-old murder case
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• Sonoma County sheriff closes cold case after DNA links suspect to 1983 Guerneville killing (pressdemocrat.com) — A long-unsolved 1983 homicide in Guerneville has finally been closed after modern DNA testing linked a now-deceased suspect to the killing of visitor Robert Lee Pangborn near the Russian River. Detectives traced preserved biological evidence from a car on Riverlands Road to a man later deported to El Salvador, bringing belated answers but no trial for a crime that haunted investigators and touched Guerneville’s LGBTQ-linked history. 
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