Police haven’t given up on 1961 murder

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Marta Santa Cruz was killed more than 50 years ago, but D.C. police have not forgotten her death.

Her body was found near a trash dump in Springfield on Independence Day, 1961. She was partially submerged in a creek near a trash dump. She had been strangled.

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