An Alabama man has been charged with capital murder in connection to the 1999 killing of 2 teenage girls.
Tracy Jean Hawlett, left, and J.B. Hilton Beasley were found dead in the trunk of Beasley's car in 1999.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.An Alabama man was arrested and charged with multiple counts of capital murder in connection with the 1999 murder of two teenage girls who were found dead in the trunk of a car.
The two teens, both 17 and students at Northview High school in Dothan, were on their way to a party on July 31, 1999, when they got lost and ended up about 20 miles northwest in Ozark, according to police. Investigators interviewed"hundreds of hundreds" of people and potential suspects over the years, but found nothing, Walker said.
Walker said he sent a DNA sample of the suspected killer to Parabon NanoLabs, a DNA technology company in Virginia that hasThe lab produced various genetic reports and investigators recognized McCraney's last name from the DNA search, Walker said.Authorities then brought McCraney in for a DNA swab, the police chief added, and it matched the evidence collected at the crime scene and led to his arrest six months later, near the 20th anniversary of the teens' murder.
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