Police charged a 61-year-old man with murder 30 years after he allegedly abducted and killed a 12-year-old girl after she got off a Florida school bus, officials said Thursday.
A DNA match from another case helped police identify Jeffrey Norman Crum as the alleged culprit in Jennifer Odom's death, Hernando County Sheriff Al Nienhuis said during a press conference. Crum is already serving two life sentences for sexual battery and attempted murder. A grand jury indicted him Monday on first-degree murder, kidnapping and sexual battery charges in the Odom case.
Investigators have focused on a blue truck over the years. Odom's classmates told officers they saw a faded blue pickup truck slowly following Odom as she walked home. DNA evidence from a separate Pasco County case helped detectives identify Crum as a suspect in Odom's death. There were no matches or leads in a national DNA database, but in recent years the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which had been comparing DNA to find close matches in the system, identified one of Crum's family members — which then led them to Crum.
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