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2019: The base of DNA data for search of relatives helped to solve murder of semicentennial prescription
At the beginning of May, 2019 using base of DNA data for search of relatives murder of the girl of fifty-year prescription was solved.
Twenty-year-old Susan Galvin (Susan Galvin) was found dead in the freight elevator Seattle center on July 13, 1967. The girl was raped and strangled. At that time the murderer could not be found though DNA samples of sperm and fingerprints of the suspect were received.
The break in case took place in 2018 when the police addressed bank of DNA data for search of relatives of GEDmatch where voluntarily provided information of many people is stored. The website allows to compare data retrieveds and to build approximate family trees on similarity of DNA. Relying on the DNA data received on site murders, detectives could find the suspect earlier unknown to them.
The criminal could not incur just deserts – Frank E. Vypich (Frank E. Wypych) died in 1987. According to police, Vypich grew up in Seattle and graduated from school in 1959. In the early sixties it served in U.S. Army, and at the time of Susan Galvin's murder to it 26 years were performed, he was married and had children.
In January, 2019, thanks to the GEDmatch database, detectives found the possible murderer and contacted Vypich's relatives who still lived in Seattle. Relatives agreed to exhumation of a body and taking of DNA sample for comparison with data of police. At the same time the police lifted documents on the case of Susan Galvin's murder and compared the found fingerprints with the database updated in fifty years. Prints from the crime scene matched the prints taken from Vypich in 1971 when he was arrested for theft. The led exhumation and check of DNA confirmed suspicions of police officers.
On May 7, 2019 detectives announced to Susan Galvin's brother that nearly 52 years later the police identified her murderer. Case was closed.[1]
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