Police Use DNA Testing To Solve 1982 Killings Of 2 Bay Area Teenagers
LAPPL News Watch
December 19, 2019
Detectives in the Bay Area have solved the 1982 killings of two teenagers by using advanced DNA testing that led them to a man who has been dead for 20 years, police said.
Clifton Hudspeth, who died in 1999, has been identified as the suspect in the killings of Mary Jane Malatag and Jeffrey Flores Atup, who were cousins and both 16. Both of the teenagers were shot, and Malatag was sexually assaulted.
To confirm Hudspeth’s suspected involvement, his remains were exhumed and his DNA was extracted and tested, Fremont police said. They turned to a technique that traces a suspect’s family line, which was also used to help catch a suspect in a series of rapes and slayings blamed on the Golden State Killer in the 1970s and ‘80s.
The cousins were last seen walking to Atup’s home in Milpitas, Calif., but they never made it. Their bodies were found Dec, 19, 1982, in neighboring Fremont.
Police said an “extensive investigation” was done, but the case went cold.
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