How DNA – and old-fashioned police work – led to arrest in 1973 cold-case murder of 11-year-old California girl
By: Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group
In those days, the cops who searched for the killer of the little girl in the Back Bay didn’t even have radios.
“We were issued a gun and a holster – that’s it,” said Stan Bressler, a patrolman who walked the Newport Beach neighborhood looking for clues in July 1973.
Almost 46 years later, Bressler was near tears as he listened to details of the state-of-the-art chemistry that led to an arrest in the case that he had never forgotten. Bressler had three teenage children in 1973. He has 34 grandchildren now.
