Two Murders Stumped Police For 40 Years. The Key Was Sitting In A Bathroom Cabinet
(San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office)
With the illness marching through his body and his time running low, Arthur Rudy Martinez turned himself in. With DNA breakthroughs in mind, investigators with the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office in 2005 submitted DNA collected from the 1977 and 1978 crime scenes for analysis. Investigators eventually determined the inmate with a familial match had a relative living in San Luis Obispo County at the time of the murders: Martinez.
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