The cold case killing of a Wisconsin hitchhiker has been solved 50 years later thanks to a DNA breakthrough from evidence pulled from a hat that the accused killer left behind at the scene.
Jon Keith Miller, 84, was arrested Thursday after he “confirmed his involvement” in the vicious stabbing of Mary Schlais, whose body was found at a Spring Brook intersection in February 1974.
Schlais, just 25, had been hitchhiking to a Chicago art show when she turned up dead that cold morning, and investigators were left with few leads beyond one piece of possible evidence — a stocking cap found near her body, from which a few hairs were pulled.
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