DNA leads to arrest in 1978 rape

Published July 23, 2007 4:00am ET



A 30-year-old rape case is one step closer to beiing over now that Baltimore County authorities have linked DNA evidence with DNA of a former inmate.

Baltimore County Police charged Edward Dennis Wood, 59, of Westminster, with the Aug. 26, 1978, rape of a 24-year-old woman who was attacked by a man who cut through the screen of a sliding door in her apartment bedroom.

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