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"Bail set at $1 million for suspect in cold case with regional ties
Jerzy Shedlock The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash. 17 hrs ago 0
Bail was set at $1 million Wednesday for the suspect in the 1994 rape and strangulation death of a Vancouver woman.
Audrey Hoellein, 26, was found dead in her bed in Vancouver, Wash. in July 1994. She had lived in Northville and still has family in the area.
Richard Eugene Knapp, 57, of Fairview, Ore., appeared Wednesday in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of first- and second-degree murder with sexual motivation. Judge Robert A. Lewis set bail.....(sentences deleted here.)
Knapp was arrested Sunday near his home. He was linked to the cold case based on DNA testing.
Audrey Hoellein, 26, also known as Audrey Frasier, was found dead in her bed at the Family Tree Apartments in the 8000 block of East Fourth Plain Boulevard on July 17, 1994, according to The Columbian's archives. An autopsy concluded that she had been raped and strangled, according to court documents.
According to a probable cause affidavit, officers who responded to Hoellein's apartment the night she was found collected a variety of DNA evidence, which was used during the initial investigation to develop several suspects. All of the suspects later were eliminated as being the source of the DNA, however.
Last year, Vancouver Police enlisted the help of a genetic testing company to develop an improved profile of the suspected killer. In October, the company also provided a genealogy report. The DNA was compared with a member of Knapp's family who had pointed police toward him, detectives said. Knapp was known to live in Clark County around the time of Frasier's death.
Following several months of surveillance, investigators collected DNA from a cigarette butt Knapp had tossed away at work, Detective Dustin Goudschaal said. The new evidence was sent to the Washington State Crime Lab, which found that it matched the crime scene DNA."
"Bail set at $1 million for suspect in cold case with regional ties
Jerzy Shedlock The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash. 17 hrs ago 0
Bail was set at $1 million Wednesday for the suspect in the 1994 rape and strangulation death of a Vancouver woman.
Audrey Hoellein, 26, was found dead in her bed in Vancouver, Wash. in July 1994. She had lived in Northville and still has family in the area.
Richard Eugene Knapp, 57, of Fairview, Ore., appeared Wednesday in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of first- and second-degree murder with sexual motivation. Judge Robert A. Lewis set bail.....(sentences deleted here.)
Knapp was arrested Sunday near his home. He was linked to the cold case based on DNA testing.
Audrey Hoellein, 26, also known as Audrey Frasier, was found dead in her bed at the Family Tree Apartments in the 8000 block of East Fourth Plain Boulevard on July 17, 1994, according to The Columbian's archives. An autopsy concluded that she had been raped and strangled, according to court documents.
According to a probable cause affidavit, officers who responded to Hoellein's apartment the night she was found collected a variety of DNA evidence, which was used during the initial investigation to develop several suspects. All of the suspects later were eliminated as being the source of the DNA, however.
Last year, Vancouver Police enlisted the help of a genetic testing company to develop an improved profile of the suspected killer. In October, the company also provided a genealogy report. The DNA was compared with a member of Knapp's family who had pointed police toward him, detectives said. Knapp was known to live in Clark County around the time of Frasier's death.
Following several months of surveillance, investigators collected DNA from a cigarette butt Knapp had tossed away at work, Detective Dustin Goudschaal said. The new evidence was sent to the Washington State Crime Lab, which found that it matched the crime scene DNA."
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