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MURDER-SUICIDE–1971/2010???
DNA technology may have solved a 1971 Klamath County murder this month. But the suspect killed himself. OSP says the now-64-year old man took his own life after officers showed up at his house with a warrant for his DNA. 19-year old Joyce Cross was raped and her skull crushed in 1971. Semen samples from her clothing were saved, so a cold-case unit began looking into the killing anew in 2008. In 2009, an OSP detective saw an old man open a bag of peanuts with his teeth at a baseball game. He was a 1971 suspect. The DNA on that peanut bag matched the 1971 evidence. Murder, 1971–Suicide, 2010???