They solved a crime in Alaska 26 years later

United States. In short or long term, there must always be justice. That's what happened in the United States, where it took 26 years to solve a crime that shocked Alaska. This week police arrested a rape and murder suspect of Sophie Sergie, a 20-year-old woman in 1993.

The researchers began using genetic badysis techniques to better understand the murderers who remain anonymous. Thus, with the technological advances that were not available in the 1990s, members of the Unresolved Case Unit returned to review the case file of Sergie, visiting the University of Toronto. Alaska Fairbanks.

She had been last seen when she went to get a cigarette and suggested she smoke it near the bathroom's vent to avoid freezing temperatures. The next morning, they found her dead, with signs of badual abuse, stabbed and wounded in the head. There were no witnesses, no major clues were found and the genetic profile compared to the main suspects in the case and at the criminal base of the FB had shown no coincidence . Twenty-six years later, and thanks to a genetic genealogy test, the investigation focused on Steven Downs, the only suspect.

The man in question had been questioned, he had always denied having more details and the suspicion was not greater. However, a colleague said that he had a murder-caliber weapon. The circle is closed on the subject. Downs, now 44, is charged with badual abuse and murder. Once again, he badured that he was not the perpetrator of the crime.

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