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Dental hygienist on trial in 1984 killing of a Navy recruit
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A trial is underway for a 61-year-old man facing a first-degree murder charge in the death of a U.S. Navy recruit who was strangled and dumped in an overgrown field in central Florida 37 years ago.
The body of Cahanes was found on Aug. 5, 1984, two days after she graduated from boot camp at the Orlando Naval Training Center, the newspaper reported. She was naked except for a pair of white underwear. When the case was reopened in the 1990s, testing found semen on the underwear. Investigators developed a DNA profile of the suspect and by 2018, they had the technology to build a "family tree" from that profile, the newspaper reported. That led them to Garner, according to records prepared for the trial in Sanford.More Related News