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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – A convicted rapist who died in 2001 was identified as the murderer of a 23-year-old Harvard University graduate student almost 50 years ago, a Massachusetts prosecutor said Tuesday. The DNA evidence suggests that Michael Sumpter was the man who killed Jane Britton, who was sexually assaulted and clubbed to death in her Cambridge apartment in January 1969, said Middlesex County Attorney Marian Ryan.
The Britton massacre is the third murder to which Sumpter has been linked since his death at age 54.
Investigators said he was also responsible for the deaths of two other women in the Boston area in the 1970s. He died of cancer shortly after he was released on parole. after serving a 15- to 20-year prison sentence for raping a woman in her Boston apartment in 1975, Ryan's office announced.
Investigators have collected a DNA sample from a Sumpter parent to help solve Britton's case, Ryan said. This is the oldest case that his office has been able to solve, she told the press.
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