Police in the American state of Illinois believe they have solved a brutal murder of an 18-year-old mother after almost 60 years. A DNA match led to the arrest of 78-year-old James Barbier last Monday.
“It was perhaps the most beautiful phone call of my life,” Paula Larson told local channel ABC Chicago about the call from the police that they had arrested a suspect for the murder of her mother 57 years ago.
Larson was just a 2.5-month-old baby when her 18-year-old mother Karen Snider was stabbed to death in her home in Calumet City, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in 1966. .
Soon after the murder, the police spotted James Barbier, but were unable to complete the burden of proof against the man until the investigation was reopened in 2022 and modern techniques could be used to establish a DNA profile from blood stains found on the clothing of the man at the time. the victim were found.
This led to a match with the DNA of the now elderly Barbier. The suspect from back then still seems glowing now.
