DNA From Discarded Cigarette Butt Solves Murder of Vermont School Teacher
Cold Cases
It took nearly 52 years, but Vermont detectives stayed on this case until this week, when they announced they had solved the 1971 murder of 24-year-old school teacher Rita Curran in Burlington. The culprit, Burlington Police said, was William DeRoos, who was 31 at the time of Curran’s murder and lived upstairs with his newlywed …