Man Convicted of 1990s Murders of Two Women After New DNA Evidence Linked Him to the Crimes

A man has been convicted of the strangulation murders of two women in Ohio in the 1990s after authorities said DNA evidence linked him to the cold-case crimes.

Jurors in Franklin County convicted Robert Edwards of the 1991 murder of Alma Renee Lake and the 1996 rape and murder of Michelle Dawson Pass in 1996, both in the Columbus area. He faces a mandatory life term when he is sentenced Aug. 9.

Prosecutors were unable to link the deaths until 2003 using DNA evidence, and the identification of a suspect remained undetermined until DNA from a relative became available and the state attorney general’s office notified county prosecutors in 2021 that Edwards might be a suspect, The Columbus Dispatch reported.

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