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Phoenix police announced this week an arrest in a two-decade old slaying of a 15-year-old girl. Wednesday marked 20 years to the day that Elena Lasswell was “brutally” murdered inside her home, police announced in a short video statement. Sergio Reyes, 37, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of first-degree murder. He was extradited from Mexico and is being held at the Maricopa County Jail, police said.
In a separate statement about the case, police said Elena was found injured and unresponsive in a bedroom in her home on July 10, 2004. She was pronounced dead on scene, police said. Investigators had few leads or any direct information of who killed Elena and the case went cold, police said. But in 2012, detectives used “DNA collection techniques” and identified a profile that matched Reyes, police said.
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