DNA evidence could break unsolved 1974 homicide

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D.C. police and the FBI are banking on advances in forensic technology to solve a homicide that’s more than 30 years old.

Two weeks before Christmas in 1974, Eileen Kelly disappeared after leaving the Department of Justice, where she’d just gotten a job as a secretary in the economic litigation section. She was supposed to get on a bus to Hyattsville to meet her father to sign loan papers for an AMC Gremlin she wanted to buy. She never showed up.

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