Cold Case Cracked: Florida Man Charged With Murder 38 Years Later Due To New Fingerprint Tech
DELRAY BEACH (CBSMiami) — Thirty-eight years later, police say they have the person who killed a Pompano Beach woman in Palm Beach County.
Carla Lowe, 21, waited for an Amtrak train at the old Delray Beach Station in November of 1983.
She never climbed aboard.
Police found her body in the road near the station brutally beaten and run over.
On the day she was found, a man by the name of Ralph Williams was taken into custody on grand theft auto and burglary charges, but they couldn’t connect him to Lowe’s murder.
“This case was picked up a number of times while I was still working and the advances in DNA and fingerprint technology were still developing, and we kept working at it,” says former...
