A jury on Wednesday convicted a person of raping and stabbing to demise a lady in her Sacramento-area residence, 40 years after her demise. Phillip Lee Wilson, 73, was discovered responsible of homicide with the particular circumstance of rape.
The Sacramento County jury returned the decision someday after initially deadlocking on the costs.
Wilson was accused of killing Robin Brooks, 20, at her residence in Rosemont on April 24, 1980. A pal who seen she did not present up for work on April 24, 1980, discovered Brooks' physique inside her residence, CBS Sacramento reported.
Investigators mentioned genetic geneology utilizing DNA from blood and semen on the crime scene was used to establish Wilson as a suspect.
Precisely forty years later, on April 24, 2020, investigators on the case introduced the arrest of Wilson, who was detained at his North Sacramento house.
His lawyer argued that Wilson had consensual intercourse with Brooks however she was killed by her sister's boyfriend, who has since died.
Brooks' sister, Maria Arrick, wept with pleasure on the jury's resolution.
"I simply by no means gave up hope, I simply knew it," she advised the Sacramento Bee, referring to the case being solved.
Wilson's conviction got here on his birthday.
"There may be justice on the planet, and he'll spend all his birthdays now in jail. I want we discovered him earlier, however lastly, justice has been performed," Micki Hyperlinks, a Sheriff's Workplace chilly case detective, advised KXTV-TV.
Wilson is scheduled to be sentenced on April 22.