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Nearly three decades after two women were found dead in a national park in Virginia, their killer — a 'serial rapist' who died in prison in 2018 — was identified through forensic tests, the FBI said Thursday. DNA tests determined that Walter 'Leo' Jackson Sr. killed Laura “Lollie” Winans, 26, and Julianne “Julie” Williams, 24, at Shenandoah National Park on May 24, 1996, according to a Thursday joint statement from the the FBI's Richmond Field Office and the U.S.
Special agents, intelligence analysts and other FBI personnel re-evaluated hundreds of leads and interviews, the agency said. The team prioritized evidence from the crime scene and had it retested by an accredited private lab, the FBI said. The private lab collected DNA from 'several items of evidence,' and with the help of Virginia State Police, the DNA profile was sent to the FBI's Combined DNA Index System, the FBI said.
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