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The FOX True Crime Podcast w/ Emily Compagno

DNA Links California Man to 1979 Cold Case Murder

The FOX True Crime Podcast w/ Emily Compagno

Fox News

True Crime

4.8708 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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California investigators linked a man’s DNA to a 1979 cold case murder of a teenage girl, years after the same man passed a lie detector test about the crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm Lillian Wu with your Fox True Crime Minute. On February 9th, 1979, 17-year-old Esther

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Gonzalez was walking to her sister's house in

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Banning California about 85 miles east of Los Angeles. She never made it home. The next day,

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a man police described as argumentative, reported finding her body in a snowpack off the highway.

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Police say Gonzalez had been attacked, raped,

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and bludgeoned to death. The man who called police was Louis Randolph Williamson. He passed a polygraph

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and police cleared him of wrongdoing. But nearly five decades later, police used forensic genealogy

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to link him to the murder. Williamson died in Florida in 2014. A blood sample had been collected during his autopsy. Florida police sent a sample to the California DOJ, which confirmed Williamson's DNA, matched the DNA and the semen sample on Gonzalez's body. I'm Lillian Wu with your Fox, True Crime Minute.

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