By Justin Jouvenal Justin Jouvenal Reporter covering courts, policing and technology Email Bio Follow April 10 at 6:36 PM The murder scene has been bulldozed. The victims are only seen in grainy black-and-white photos. Their tragedy is largely consigned to faded newspaper clippings: Two young women vacationing in Virginia Beach were brutally slain in 1973.
Virginia Beach Police Chief James A. Cervera said at a Wednesday news conference that a “strong lead” was developed in the fall of 2018 that was the result of resubmitting evidence for testing and technological advances. He declined to elaborate. Lynn Seethaler, 19, and Janice Pietropola, 19, in a photograph released by Virginia Beach police. “There’s a sense of closure,” Cervera said. “There’s a sense that we are reopening old wounds as we work with the families through the case.”
The double slaying was a major case in the Virginia Beach area, prompting the department to assign nearly all of its detectives to the case in 1973, according to an Associated Press report. Both had been strangled, either by hand or with a piece of cloth, according to an AP report. Seethaler was shot once in the cheek and once in the temple, the report said. Her neck was also slashed.
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