Police say they've nabbed the man who murdered a Long Island girl 41 years ago.
From ABC 7:
In November 1984, 16-year-old Theresa Fusco disappeared after she was fired from her job working the snack bar at Hot Skates, a roller rink in Lynbrook and, on Wednesday, the Nassau County district attorney's office charged a 63-year-old man, Richard Bilodeau, with second degree murder.
Fusco's body was "found buried under leaves and shipping pallets" after she had been "strangled, sexually assaulted, and beaten."
Three men were convicted in her death and "sentenced to more than 30 years in prison" ... but years later DNA evidence proved none of them was the killer.
So what finally cracked the investigation? Evidently it was a "discarded smoothie cup":
Bilodeau went to get a smoothie not far from his home in Center Moriches. Investigators recovered the discarded cup and straw from the trash and brought it for testing.
Cops going into the garbage after that smoothie cup like:
The DNA on the smoothie cup led cops "straight to Richard Bilodeau." The suspect has reportedly been under investigation since last year.
And evidently cops are going to get the last laugh on this, according to District Attorney Anne Donnelly:
'Through his denials that he had ever known her name, who she was, he made kind of a flippant comment about the 1980s. He said, "people got away with murder." Well, I'll tell you something, Mr. Bilodeau, I've got you now.'
Police labs might not be flashy, but they get the job done.
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