Police FINALLY Solve Gruesome Teen Hitchhiker Murders Over 40 Years Later!
13.01.2022 - 22:55
/ perezhilton.com
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Over 40 years later, police finally know what happened to Kirk Leonard Wiseman and Cynthia Lynn Frayer.
For those who don’t know, two teenage hitchhikers had plans to go to Crater Lake, a National Park in Oregon where Frayer always wanted to visit, when they vanished without a trace in September of 1978. Two months later, on November 17, the skeletal remains of the pair and a small dog were found near Lake of the Woods and the Dead Indian Highway in Oregon.
Authorities found that Kirk, 19, and Cynthia, 17, had been shot multiple times in the head with a small caliber firearm, and noted there was evidence that Frayer had been sexually assaulted. While digging through their belongings, investigators found a letter from Frayer to her parents that never got mailed, in which she reportedly discussed her travel plans, as well as her hopes and dreams.
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At a press conference Thursday, Detective Dan Towery recalled there were “multiple leads, multiple people [detectives] were looking at,” yet the murders remained unsolved for more than 40 years. But the case found new life in 2018 when investigators submitted multiple pieces of evidence to the crime lab, including Frayer’s clothing.
They were alerted of the presence of male DNA on her clothing a year later and entered the sample into the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS); however, it didn’t hit on a suspect in the national felon databank. So detectives reached out to forensic service Parabon NanoLabs, which uses DNA and genealogy to help solve crimes. Lo and behold, Parabon gave law enforcement a possible suspect, Ray Whitson Jr., in the summer of 2021.
Although investigators