A new DNA analysis has solved the femicide of a student that occurred 25 years ago – 18/02/2019

Year 1993. Sophie Sergie, a student in marine biology, had to leave school due to financial problems and flew to Fairbanks, Alaska, USA. There, he went to visit a friend who was studying at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and decided to live together to share the expenses.

On April 26, shortly after midnight, the 20-year-old girl left her room to smoke. The next day she was found dead in the bath of an empty room: She had been raped, stabbed several times and injured in the back of her head.

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The researchers visited the area and interviewed local students, including Steven Downs, 18, and roommate Nicholas Dazer, since they both lived in the same building. Both denied having knowledge of the crime.

The Washington Post reported that the police had established a DNA profile found in Sophie's body. The results compared them to the criminal base of the FBI, but there was no coincidence.

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The murderer, whom they nicknamed "Golden State Killer" ("The Golden State Killer"), he was still a fugitive and he has been there for nearly 25 years, until now.

With new technological advances that were not available in the 1990s, Unresolved Case Unit members have resumed review of Sophie's case. Traces of DNA have been sent to a company to develop a genetic genealogy test, that is to say: Find a family member of the murderer to find him.

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Here is how a connection was found. The results showed the name of a woman named Downs, aunt of the same teenager who lived in the building where the femicide occurred. Recently, the experts visited her and took a sample of genetic material on their cheek, which coincided with the recovered evidence of Sophie's body.

So, on February 15, authorities arrested Downs, now 44, in the state of Maine, in the north-east of the country. He is accused of badual abuse, murder and being a fugitive from justice. Later, he will be taken to Alaska, where he will face another jury.

Thanks to another witness, a compatriot at the time of the detainee, investigators learned that Downs he had a weapon that matched the caliber of the shot that Sophie had in his headthen the circle is closed on it. "Justice is finally within our grasp," said Barry Wilson, police chief of Alaska.

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