ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Orange County investigators are set to talk about how they say they solved a cold case murder 25 years after it happened during a news conference on Thursday.
Deputies said they have caught the man who stabbed a convenience store manager to death in 1996. Kenneth Stough Jr. went before an Orange County judge on Wednesday for the murder.
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He’s being held without bail on charges of first-degree murder and robbery with a deadly weapon in the stabbing of Terrance Paquette.
Detectives said the arrest was made with help from a genealogy database and DNA recovered from beer cans that had been thrown away.
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Sheriff John Mina and detectives who worked on the case are set to discuss how they cracked the case on Thursday at 10 a.m. Click here to watch the news conference live.
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