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Archive Home > 2009 > April > 29 > DNA helps solve 1976 murder

DNA helps solve 1976 murder

By William McCall / The Bulletin
April 29, 2009

PORTLAND — Cold case detectives in Portland have solved a 1976 murder with fingernail scrapings collected in the oldest homicide case to be closed in Oregon using DNA evidence.

Detectives say the man who strangled 80-year-old Rosa Cinnamon in Portland died in prison, where he was....

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