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(NewsNation) — Authorities successful New York person indicted 63-year-old Richard Bilodeau connected execution charges successful the 1984 decease of 16-year-old Theresa Fusco.
The Nassau County District Attorney’s Office announced the charges connected Oct. 15 aft they said DNA grounds from a smoothie cupful discarded by Bilodeau matched samples taken from Fusco’s body.
District Attorney Anne Donnelly told “NewsNation Live” that Bilodeau’s indictment brings Fusco’s household 1 measurement person to justness aft 40 years of searching for answers.
“When this lawsuit happened, it haunted everybody, you know? In 1984, an guiltless girl, she leaves enactment astatine Hot Skates, and she's walking location and disappears, and they find her assemblage a period later,” Donnelly said.
Donnelly attributed the breakthrough successful the lawsuit to collaboration betwixt the FBI and the Nassau County Police Department. Since taking bureau successful 2022, she said acold cases person remained a precedence for her team, which is present looking into whether Bilodeau is connected to different disappearances and deaths successful the country successful the ’80s, specified arsenic the cases of Kelly Morrissey and Jacqueline Martarella.
“We are inactive investigating those cases, and we volition travel each pb that we can," Donnelly said. "Kelly Morrissey was a person of Teresa Fusco, and her lawsuit is being reexamined, arsenic good arsenic the Martarella case."
She said advancements successful DNA squad investigating person provided a turning constituent successful solving cases successful caller years, a information Donnelly said adjacent Bilodeau has acknowledged.
“In July, the archetypal clip the constabulary went to talk to him, they were asking him, and helium said, ‘I don't cognize who this miss is,’ ... [he] denied knowing her, and they said, ‘Well, bash you retrieve the lawsuit from 1984?' and helium said, ‘Back successful the 1980s, you could get distant with murder,’” Donnelly said.
