In the US, 20 for years could not solve a murder until the criminal got a job

American 20 police for years could not uncover the murder of Sondra Better, which was committed in 1998, but the case helped to get things moving. CNN.

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24 August 1998, Better worked in a store on Lou Shay in Delray Beach, Fla., When an unknown man came into the store and killed her.

Although the witness was seen by the witness, the criminal found blood and fingerprints at the scene of the crime, the police could not catch the killer. But in December last year, a man filed a job application, and the police uncovered the crime.

“We had physical evidence, but the person who committed this heinous act seemed to simply disappear,” said Delray Beach Police Chief Javaro Sims.

Police have added fingerprints found at the crime scene to the database of the automatic fingerprint identification system (AFIS). No matches were found in 20 years.

And so, in December, 2018 reported to the police that 51-year-old Todd Barket from Brandon, Fla., Applied for a job as a nurse's assistant and provided his fingerprints for the employment process. And his fingerprints coincided with the prints of the criminal who committed the murder of 20 years ago.

It turned out that in 1998, Barket lived in 13 kilometers from the store where the deceased worked. The blood and fingerprints found at the crime scene corresponded to the samples taken from Barket.

The man was arrested and put in Hillsborough County jail without the right to bail. He must be extradited to Palm Beach County. Barket was charged with first-degree murder.

Killed Bette was 68 years old. She was going to quit her job and move with her husband to New York.

“She was brutally killed. An unknown person beat her and killed her with a knife. Nobody deserves to die like that,” Sims said.

Investigator Robert Stevens, who led the case, retired in 2007 year. He said that he often recalled this unsolved case on which he had been working for almost 10 for years.

"Anyone who works in homicide knows that once you solve a case where a truly innocent victim is killed, it's hard to forget the case," Stevens said.

After the death of his wife, Better Seymour's husband volunteered for the Delray Beach police, where he served for almost 15 years. Seymour died without waiting for the wife’s killer to be found, but other family members "are very pleased that the case has been solved."

“Twenty years is a long time to wait and ask for justice,” Sims said.

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