"Arrest in 40-year-old murder case"
By: Mariano Castillo and Marlena Baldacci
Source: CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/06/justice/massachusetts-cold-case-murder/index.html?hpt=ju_t2
Eileen Ferro was stabbed to death forty years ago when she was twenty-one in her home in Shrewsbury. Sixty-nine-year-old Lonzo Guthrie from Georgia was arrested on Tuesday for Ferro's death. Officials finally had a DNA match and the match was Guthrie's DNA. Guthrie worked at Ferro's house as a furniture delivery man the day before she was stabbed. He was never considered a suspect or was suspicious during the time she was killed. Investigators decided to test the evidence from 1974 once more in the lab for any traces of DNA. Coincidentally, Guthrie committed a violated parole for a crime and he had to submit a DNA sample for couple days earlier. The DNA from the lab and the DNA from Guthrie matched and authorities finally solved the case after four decades. Guthrie has committed several crimes. He is a registered sex offender from a rape charge and he has been arrested for driving with a suspended license. Almost all criminals think they can be free after murder or any crime but they are wrong. Guthrie thought he was a free man and that no one would figure out he killed Ferro but there is no fooling science. It can be one year or forty years, justice will always be served.
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