Old DNA Helps Link Man to Four Killings
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An investigator used DNA technology on 25-year-old evidence to link a man to four killings committed in the Atlanta area in 1977.
Carl Millard Patton Jr., 53, a roofer from Locust Grove, was arrested and charged with murdering 31-year-old Liddie Evans, who was shot in the head, stuffed in a weighted sleeping bag and thrown into a river.
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