Cold case detectives trace DNA to genealogy site to arrest suspect 45 years after he killed a female law clerk
74-year-old John Arthur Getreu from Hayward, Alameda County, was arrested in Palo Alto on November 20 on suspicion of murdering Leslie Perlov
A man who committed a murder 45 years ago was arrested after his DNA was submitted to a public genealogical website and came back as a positive match. John Arthur Getreu, a 74-year-old from Hayward, Alameda County, was arrested in Palo Alto on November 20 on suspicion of murdering Leslie Perlov. Perlov was 21 years old when she was killed and was last seen at the place she worked as a law clerk at around 3 p.m. on February 13, 1973.
Perlov's orange Chevrolet Nova was found the same day abandoned next to the entrance of an old quarry near Stanford University's campus. She had only recently graduated at the time when she was killed, the Daily Mail reported.