DNA leads to arrest in 20-year-old cold case murder of Deborah Dalzell, who was raped, beaten, gagged and strangled in her own home
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Murder
Florida authorities say DNA helped them to solve a 1999 cold case murder in which a woman was brutally battered, raped and then strangled. Deborah Dalzell, of Sarasota, was discovered dead in her Sarasota home on March 29, 1999, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports. Officials say she was viciously beaten and gagged with a sock before …