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flag 76-year-old Cortez Sabino Lake arrested in 1987 Beaufort County laundromat murder after DNA match via genealogy.

flag 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. flag 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. flag Investigators believe she was shot inside and crawled out, leaving a blood trail suggesting the attacker was injured. flag 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. flag His DNA, obtained through noncooperative means and later a court-ordered sample, matched the evidence. flag Lake, a former Navy corpsman who lived in the same complex, was arrested and is being held without bond pending a hearing. flag The decades-old cold case was reopened using modern forensic techniques.

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