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CHISHOLM, Minn. — Authorities have arrested a suspect in a 34-year-old unsolved Iron Range homicide after using public genealogy databases to find the Chisholm man.

Michael Allan Carbo Jr., 52, was taken into custody Wednesday and booked into the St. Louis County Jail in Virginia on probable cause of second-degree murder in the 1986 killing of Nancy Daugherty, according to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

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Daugherty, 38, was last seen alive just after midnight on July 16, 1986. Later that afternoon, Chisholm police officers conducted a welfare check and found her dead inside her home. The mother of two children had been beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled. Evidence at the scene indicated that a struggle had occurred both outside and inside the home. Witnesses later reported hearing a woman screaming in the early morning hours.

Public genealogy data leads to arrest in unsolved 1986 slaying of Iron Range woman – Twin Cities

Quotes from Nancy's husband and daughter at link.

The judge stressed Monday that he wants to seat a fair and impartial jury. Jury selection will continue throughout the week and is expected to be completed by Wednesday or Thursday. Opening arguments in the trial are expected to get underway next Tuesday, Jan. 21 at 8:30 a.m. in Virginia

Jury selection underway in new trial of 1986 murder case

The retrial of Michael Carbo Jr. has officially started in Virginia.

www.northernnewsnow.com

 

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Evidence revealed during a bail hearing Wednesday included DNA of two unidentified men and the defendant in a Woonsocket murder case.

Matthew Dusseault, 22, was arrested last year and charged with murdering 81-year old Constance Gauthier, who according to police was stabbed more than 60 times in her Woonsocket home in 2016.

Dusseault, who has been held without bail since his arrest, appeared for a bail hearing in R.I. Superior Court on Wednesday.
DNA evidence details revealed in Woonsocket murder case

Assistant Attorney General Scott Erickson retorted that DNA evidence places Dusseault in Gauthier’s bedroom when she was killed, and there’s no innocent explanation as to why.

“DNA doesn’t have any bias and it doesn’t have any prejudice,” Erickson said

https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/blackstone-valley/jury-deliberating-in-2016-woonsocket-murder-trial/

 

[Oakie]

CHISHOLM, Minn. — Authorities have arrested a suspect in a 34-year-old unsolved Iron Range homicide after using public genealogy databases to find the Chisholm man.

Michael Allan Carbo Jr., 52, was taken into custody Wednesday and booked into the St. Louis County Jail in Virginia on probable cause of second-degree murder in the 1986 killing of Nancy Daugherty, according to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

There is no St. Louis County in VA. There is a St. Louis county in MO.

 

[Legally Bland]

There is no St. Louis County in VA. There is a St. Louis county in MO.

I think it's referring to a town called Virginia in St Louis County, MN.

 

[Oakie]

I think it's referring to a town called Virginia in St Louis County, MN.

OK, that makes sense. Man, so many reporters are terrible at writing!

 

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DEKALB — Investigators pursued more than 1,300 leads in the 3½ years since a mother and her son were brutally beaten to death inside a rural home east of Sycamore.

On Tuesday, authorities said they finally had found the man responsible for the killings. The case, police said, turned on the use of DNA collected at the crime scene, which was parsed out using public genealogy databases that led them to Jonathan Hurst, 51, of Cincinnati, who now faces two counts of first-degree murder.

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Sheriff’s police said the investigation over the course of more than three years had included a large amount of physical evidence. A complete DNA profile was obtained from the crime scene and sheriff’s detectives worked with Parabon to search the public genealogy database GED Match to build a family tree that led to Hurst, police said.

DNA leads to suspect in brutal 2016 killings in Sycamore

Shaw Local file – Jonathan Hurst (right) talks to his attorney Chip Criswell in Judge Marcy Buick’s courtroom at the DeKalb County Courthouse in Sycamore Monday, April 29, 2024 during a hearing on his case. Hurst is charged with murder in the August 2016 slayings of mother and son, Patricia A. Wilson, 85 and Robert J. Wilson, 64, of Sycamore

Prosecutors could call almost 50 witnesses during Wilson murder trial starting next week in Sycamore

Prosecutors anticipate calling nearly 50 witnesses beginning next week in the double murder trial of former Chicago man Jonathan Hurst, accused in the violent 2016 slayings of Sycamore elderly mother and son Patricia and Robert Wilson.

www.shawlocal.com

 

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Public genealogy data leads to arrest in unsolved 1986 slaying of Iron Range woman – Twin Cities

Quotes from Nancy's husband and daughter at link.

“The worst result for all involved is if we had to declare a mistrial because we did not have a full panel to deliberate,” Judge Robert Friday said.

Juror shortage delays start of Iron Range cold case murder trial

Unusual circumstances Tuesday prompted a judge to reopen the jury selection process before hearing the 1986 Chisholm case.

www.duluthnewstribune.com

 

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On Friday, Michael Allan Carbo, Jr., 56, was found guilty by a St. Louis County grand jury of two counts of first-degree murder while committing first-degree criminal sexual conduct in the death of Nancy Daugherty in 1986.

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/cold-case-conviction-nearly-40-years-after-chisholm-womans-murder