A man from Tulcea was detained for a crime committed in 1999. As he was identified after 26 years by DNA evidence
Hand -handed man. Photo: Inquam Photos / Cornel Putan
A man was detained after DNA tests indicated him as an author of a crime spent 26 years ago, in Tulcea County, the General Prosecutor's Office announced in a press release. The victim was a 75 -year -old woman, killed in her own home, on the night of July 25 to 26, 1999.
According to prosecutors, the man would have entered the victim's house, where he had sexually assaulted, through violence. In order to prevent him from alerting his neighbors, he would have continued to hit her, causing him serious injuries that were fatal. The woman was found in the morning, naked, under a metal bed in the house.
Identified by DNA samples after Better than two decades
According to the Prosecutor's Office, the identification was possible due to a genetic expertise performed on the biological traces raised from the place of the crime in 1999, compared with the genetic profile of the defendant in the database of the national system of judicial genetic data.
“We mention that among the evidence administered in this case is a report of judicial genetic expertise on August 6, 2025, issued by the Criminal End entitus within the IGPR, which shows that the defendant's genetic profile – identified in the database with genetic profiles within the national system of judicial genetic data – is identical to the genetic profile of the male of the male obtained as a result of the male. At the scene of the deed ”, it is shown in the quoted press release.
The man will be taken in front of the magistrates with a proposal for a preventive arrest for a period of 30 days, in terms of committing the crime of qualified murder.
