Police Intern Solves 1972 Murder; Suspect Arrested


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October 23, 2008 10:36 p.m. EST

Topics: United States
AHN Staff

San Diego, CA (AHN) - A police intern assigned to solve cold cases at the San Diego Police Department has found the killer of a postal worker 36 years after the crime was committed.

The siblings of victim Gerald Jackson thanked 24-year-old criminal-justice major Gabrielle Wimer Thursday in the TODAY studio in New York for the arrest of Gerald Metcalf, 60, last week in Texas.

Wimer resubmitted to the FBI fingerprints found by police, who investigated the Jackson murder case in 1972. The prints made a match in the national fingerprint database, where Metcalf has a record for a homicide he was suspected of committing in Texas several years after stabbing Jackson dead.

Jackson's body, which bore 50 stab wounds, was found in his ransacked apartment on Jan. 2, 1971. His car was also stolen.

Police found fingerprints on the crime scene but there was no national fingerprint database at the time to match the prints. The case was eventually shelved.


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