The cold case of the rape and murder of a 19-year-old Indianapolis woman more than three decades ago was closed Friday as a 53-year-old man was sentenced to 45 years in prison for the crime.

Dana Shepherd was sentenced after signing a plea deal last month admitting to the vicious, knife-wielding homicide of freshman art student Carmen Van Huss, local news outlets reported, capping a case solved by forensic technology that mines and matches the DNA of an unknown suspect’s relatives.

Van Huss was only 19 in 1993 when she was raped and stabbed 61 times by the then-unknown perpetrator, who broke into her apartment.

According to Fox59, her father…

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