Search for answers continues after police identify 2nd suspect in 1970 strangling death of Maryland teen
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Investigators who have been working more than half a century to solve the case of 16-year-old Pamela Lynn Conyers, who was strangled to death in central Maryland, say they’ve identified a second suspect in her killing – though their quest for answers still isn’t over.
Investigators who have been working more than half a century to solve the case of 16-year-old Pamela Lynn Conyers, who was strangled to death in central Maryland, say they’ve identified a second suspect in her killing – though their quest for answers still isn’t over. The second suspect, Donald Willard, 74, was identified using genetic genealogy and traditional investigative techniques, Anne Arundel County Police Chief Amal Awad announced Monday. Both Willard and the first suspect, Forrest Clyde Williams, died before they could be charged in Pamela’s death, police said. It’s unclear whether or how the suspects knew each other and there is no indication they knew Pamela before her killing, according to investigators. Pamela, a high school student, went missing on October 16, 1970, after going to a mall to run an errand for her mother, according to police. Three days after her disappearance, Pamela’s car was found abandoned in a wooded area, and her body was found just a short distance away the following day, police said. A medical examiner determined her cause of death was asphyxiation due to strangulation and ruled her death a homicide. FBI investigators assisting in the case were able to use genetic genealogy to track relatives of the suspects – eventually leading them to Williams and Willard, said Joe Rothrock, acting special agent in charge of the FBI’s Baltimore field office.
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