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California cold case murder victim leads police to her alleged killer after 25 years

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A California nurse raped and killed while jogging may have helped detectives solve her cold case murder after 25 years. Christine Munro was 37 when she was murdered in Redding on a summer day in 1995.

Redding police said last January a detective reviewing the case resubmitted Munro’s fingernail scrapings for analysis with DNA technology that didn't exist at the time of the murder.

Christine Munro was working as a nurse when she was killed while jogging in Redding, Calif., at the age of 37. (Redding Police Department) Six months later, they were notified of a DNA match with that of James Watkins, a 42-year-old man serving a 14-year sentence in a Texas state prison for robbery. “In simple terms, Watkin’s DNA was under Christine Munro’s.

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