COPS ARREST SHAWN MARSH FOR 1983 MURDER

ROBBER?

TIME and technology finally provided the key to unlocking a cold blooded murder almost three decades old.
Cops say that fingerprint analysis has finally linked Shawn Marsh to the brutal 1983 killing of Rodney Wyman, 29, and his hotel roommate.
They added that they were settling in for the night when one of them heard a noise in the back of the bedroom.
When Wyman approached the door, a gunman flung it open and shot him through the heart.
As Wyman staggered across the room and out of the front door, Marsh threw the roommate and screamed: "Where's the money," before kicking him in the neck and head.
Picking up the TV, its tamper alarm alerted the front office who ran round to find Marsh and gunman fleeing.    
For almost 30-years he appeared to have gotten away with it.
But when he was recently arrested for an undisclosed crime, his fingerprints were entered into a nationwide database containing more than 100 million samples.
His prints matched those taken 28 years ago from Room 74.
He is pleading not guilty.
A man who identified himself as Marsh’s uncle told The Boston Globe before the arraignment that his nephew is being framed and that he had nothing to do with the crime.

While technological advancements have proven to be great tools in crime fighting, Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr. made solving cold cases a top priority when he took office in 2007, authorities said.

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ARMY VET JOHN RAY'S 2004 MURDER SOLVED

TIED UP AND KILLED

HE was a hero Army Veteran and youth mentor with big plans to go to law school.  
But then John Ray's life was tragically cut short, when he was viciously beaten, stabbed multiple times in the head and chest and then tied up and left to die in his South Atlanta home.
The 32-year-old's car and electronics were taken, but despite a large investigation at the time, the case quickly went cold.
Now thanks to a DNA match investigators believe they’ve found the man responsible – just before he may have managed to elude them a second time.
Torico Jackson has a long criminal history and was nearing the end of a prison sentence for a 2008 armed robbery.
Now he'll be held on murder charges.
Detective David Quinn told the Atlanta Journal Constitution: "That same individual escaped capture that night within two miles of the crime scene, less than eight hours after the time John Ray was last seen alive.
“It’s just a coincidence that we were working this case, and we find out where he is.”
On the night of the murder Torico had crashed the car, not far from Ray's home and investigator's were able to match the blood found on the dashboard with Torico. 
A recent swab of DNA from Jackson from prison to confirm that they had a match.
A trial date has yet to be set.

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