ROBERT MEYER DENIES 1976 KAREN ADAMS SLAY

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'NO IDEA'

THE man accused in the 1975 slaying of Karen Adams has denied having anything to with her murder, claiming he had "no idea" why his DNA was found on her clothing. As we reported here investigators claim Robert W. Meyer's DNA matched with the semen found on the underwear and body of the youngster, who was found viciously strangled to death in a ditch near her home in Columbus, OH. But the 70-year-old denied having anything to do with the killing. He told 10TV: "I have no idea. I have never met her. I don't recognize
her face. I had nothing to do with it."
But according to the Franklin County Sheriff's Office, Meyer came up as a match when the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification & Investigation Laboratory  compared the DNA on her clothing, with that from convicted offenders.
An additional sample was taken and it confirmed that Meyer, 70, was the contributor of semen found on Adams' body, investigators have claimed.
Despite his frail appearance, Franklin County Sheriff Zach Scott said that Meyer was released from prison months before Adams was killed.
He had killed a man with a hammer in 1963 and served 10 years for the crime.
After being released he moved to the street where Adams lived, just months before her murder.
Then in 1976 he was convicted of kidnapping and raping a woman, a crime which he served 25-years for, before he was released in 2001.
The date for Meyer’s trial was not immediately scheduled.

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DNA NAILS KILLER IN 1975 KAREN ADAMS COLD CASE

COPS IN Ohio have cracked a 36-year-old unsolved homicide thanks to our new friend, MR. DNA. Robert W. Meyer, aka Creepy Bob, 71, of Cincinnati was arrested and charged with the March 9, 1975 murder of Karen Adams, who was just 17. Karen Adams left her home in Whitehall - east of Columbus, 130 miles from Cincinnati - to go a few blocks to a friend's house. But she never made it. Her body was found the next day in a ditch and the case went cold fast. Franklin County Det. Zach Scott said detectives looked at the case again and, in December, discovered semen in the girl's underwear from 36 years ago. They sent it away for DNA analysis and they got a hit.
It belonged to Meyer, who was 34 at the time of Adams' sex slaying. Meyer and Adams didn't know each other until that night. Meyer, apparently a real prince, was convicted of murder in 1963 for beating a man to death with a hammer and spent 10 years in prison. And, in 1975, Meyer and another man kidnapped and raped another woman and were sent to prison for 25 years. He was released in 2001. That's when officials took Meyer's DNA and ordered him, as a convicted sex offender, to report his address to authorities for the next 10 years. COPS CRACK 1975 KAREN ADAMS MURDER

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