DNA helps solve 1996 rape, murder of North Philadelphia teen
The case of a rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl that has been cold for nearly 17 years was solved this week thanks to DNA evidence, police said.
DNA helps solve 1996 rape, murder of North Philadelphia teen
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The case of a rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl that has been cold for nearly 17 years was solved this week thanks to DNA evidence, police said.
On Oct. 2, 1996, officers found 17-year-old Anjeanette Maldonado dead on Hope Street near Cecil B. Moore Avenue in North Philadelphia. Her murder remained unsolved until Monday, when police say a DNA sample obtained during the investigation and entered into the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Combined DNA Index System came up as a match to a convicted man in Florida.
Rafael Crespo, 46, whose DNA matched that found at the crime scene where the teen’s body was found, was charged Monday with murder, rape, sexual assault and related offenses in the nearly two-decade-old case, police said.
Crespo is currently being held at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility on State Road. Philadelphia police said they are unsure what Crespo was incarcerated for in Florida when the DNA match was discovered.
Keep this animal lock up forever! This scum has no conscience.
"Philadelphia police said they are unsure what Crespo was incarcerated for"
They know!
Good they got this scum— Liberty_1776- from what i read and heard he sexually molested his step daughter and some other sexual acts a year later — twiliteroze
- from what i read and heard he sexually molested his step daughter and some other sexual acts a year later — twiliteroze
- i loathe this man...anje was such an amazing spirit. i miss my best friend every day. i will be at that hearing you best believe! i hope i get to see anjes mom sis and bro its been so many years!
Dawn— twiliteroze
