DNA Helps Identify a Florida Woman’s Killer 30 Years After She Was Found Strangled to Death

A woman’s cold case murder has been solved after 30 years, owing to a breakthrough that led to a man believed to be her killer, authorities said. The woman, Roslin Kruse, was just 23 at the time of her death, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, which handled her case in Florida.

Kruse was last seen alive on Nov. 1, 1993, in Tampa, the sheriff’s office said in a news release Friday. She was found dead that same day on the shoulder of a road in Gibsonton, which is about 10 miles south of the city center. A subsequent autopsy determined her cause of death was strangulation.

Despite identifying her, authorities did not solve Kruse’s case until recently, when DNA profiling allowed them to match a sample taken from her body to the child of her suspected killer, who died more than a decade ago. The Hillsborough sheriff said authorities are “confident” that Michael Rizzo was responsible for Kruse’s death.

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