Crime & Safety
Will DNA Test Solve 1982 Largo Killing?
Detectives say they have a suspect in the death of Kimberly Kessinger – 31 years later.
A 72-year-old man whose DNA has linked him to the killings of two California women is now a suspect in a Largo cold case.
According to ABC News, federal investigators also are checking to see whether DNA samples taken from Samuel Little match forensic evidence collected in the case of 21-year-old Kimberly Kessinger.
Kessinger disappeared from her Largo home 31 years ago, in May 1982. Her body was discovered days later in a cemetery in Macon, Ga.
Little was living a short distance from where Kessinger's body was found.
According to ABC News:
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Little, now 72, is awaiting trial in Los Angeles for the murders of two women who died in a similar fashion. Those victims were found nude below the waist and strangled in what investigators believe was a sexually motivated murder. DNA evidence linked him to the crimes, according to prosecutors.
It may take 60 days before there are any DNA results.
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