FORT LAUDERDALE — The Broward County Sheriff’s Business office on Tuesday stated it has determined a suspect in connection with the sexual assault and murder 25 many years in the past of a girl whose unsolved murder experienced sat dormant for about two decades.
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Sheriff Gregory Tony stated throughout a morning news meeting that the girl previously known as Jane Doe has been recognized as Eileen Truppner.
“She is no for a longer period faceless,” he explained. “She is no extended anonymous.”
Investigators discovered suspected serial killer Lucious Boyd, who is at the moment on Florida’s loss of life row for an additional homicide, as the suspect behind Truppner’s loss of life.
A grand jury indicted Boyd for Truppner’s murder on Nov. 29, officers stated.
He now faces an more 1st-degree murder charge as very well as sexual battery rates, in accordance to the sheriff’s office.
“He is a predator,” a BSO investigator claimed for the duration of the news convention.
Truppner’s overall body was identified by a boater in December 1998 in a grassy region off of U.S. 27. For decades, she was recognised only as Jane Doe ahead of detectives were being equipped to discover her via DNA and detective function.
Truppner, a native of Puerto Rico, moved to South Florida to consider English lessons and experienced two youngsters.
“My sister was very type,” Truppner’s sister reported all through the news meeting. “She experienced a great coronary heart. She would hardly ever hurt any individual.”
Boyd is on Florida’s loss of life row in relationship with yet another slaying from 1998, that of Dawnia Dacosta.
The 21-12 months-outdated nursing university student disappeared on Dec. 5 as she walked along Interstate 95 to get gasoline for her stalled car.
Her physique was found two days later in a sheet and investigators reported she had been sexually abused right before she was slain.
Boyd was later on billed with murder, kidnapping and sexual battery in the situation, according to the Sun-Sentinel.
Boyd is the son of a nearby of funeral house director and was arrested for Dacosta’s murder in the parking large amount of James C. Boyd Funeral Residence, the Sun-Sentinel reported.
