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76-year-old Cortez Sabino Lake arrested in 1987 Beaufort County laundromat murder after DNA match via genealogy.
Authorities have arrested 76-year-old Cortez Sabino Lake in connection with the 1987 murder of Margit Schuller, found shot outside a Beaufort County laundromat.
Schuller was last seen inside the facility around 8:15 a.m. on November 1, 1987, and her body was discovered under a tree by her daughter.
Investigators believe she was shot inside and crawled out, leaving a blood trail suggesting the attacker was injured.
DNA from that trail, analyzed in 2005 and initially unmatched in CODIS, was re-examined in 2019 using forensic genealogy, leading to Lake as a suspect.
His DNA, obtained through noncooperative means and later a court-ordered sample, matched the evidence.
Lake, a former Navy corpsman who lived in the same complex, was arrested and is being held without bond pending a hearing.
The decades-old cold case was reopened using modern forensic techniques.
Cortez Sabino Lake, de 76 años, arrestado en 1987 por asesinato en una lavandería del condado de Beaufort luego de una coincidencia de ADN a través de la genealogía.