Two teens on vacation in Virginia Beach were killed 46 years ago. Now an 80-year-old New York man is under arrest.
The double homicide dates to 1973, when Janice Pietropola and Lynn Seethaler, both 19, traveled from the Pittsburgh area to Virginia Beach to vacation. They were found brutally killed on June 30 inside their oceanfront motel cottage, and their deaths were ruled homicides, police said.After an exhaustive investigation, the case went cold, police said. The cottage where the teens were slain was destroyed, then rebuilt into new motels and shops.
Then last fall, Virginia Beach Police cold case investigators, working with the local prosecutor, began to aggressively research a strong lead in the case, police said.Police on Monday arrested the alleged killer: Ernest Broadnax of New York City. He was arrested in New York and charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of rape, police said. Read MoreBroadnax is awaiting extradition, police said. It was not immediately clear if he had retained an attorney.
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