Innocent by polygraph, guilty by DNA: Solving a gruesome murder after 45 years

A man who was acquitted by a polygraph test of the rape and murder of a teenage girl in 1979 has finally been linked to the crime, based on DNA evidence. 17-year-old Esther Gonzalez was walking from her home in Beaumont, California, to her sister’s house in Banning, east of Los Angeles, on February 9, 1979, when she was attacked. The next day, the teenager’s body was found dumped in the snow on the highway, with authorities determining she had been raped and then beaten to death, according to the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. An unidentified man, according to the nypost, who was described as “argumentative,” found the body and called the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office, saying he didn’t know if it was a man or a woman. The man, later identified as Lewis Randolph “Randy” Williamson, was asked by sheriff’s investigators to take a lie detector test, which he agreed to and passed, exonerated […]
Source: News Beast

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