Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police announced an arrest in a murder case that had gone cold for roughly 35 years, after probabilistic genotyping software helped investigators make sense of degraded DNA evidence collected at the original crime scene.
Why it matters
The arrest is one of a growing number of decades-old homicides being resolved as forensic labs adopt DNA software capable of analyzing samples once considered too degraded to test.
What to watch
Marion Gales faces prosecution in Mecklenburg County; case proceedings are ongoing.