DNA breakthrough finally gives ‘a face to this crime.’ But can it solve a woman’s 1992 murder?

Whoever kidnapped, raped and stabbed Lisa Ziegert before dumping her body in a wooded area in southern Massachusetts left a sliver of DNA on the middle school aide’s corpse. For a quarter-century, that DNA was a dead-end — like all the other evidence in the case — as investigators scoured New England for Ziegert’s killer. The DNA did not match convicted felons or sex offenders in federal or state databases. It did not pan out as new investigative methods made better use of blood and tissue samples found at crime scenes.
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