Newly processed DNA evidence surfaces in 1987 D.C. lesbian murder
washingtonblade.comUsing updated DNA testing technology, D.C. police lab technicians recently developed a full DNA profile of an unidentified male suspect from tissue samples taken from the scene of the May 1987 murder of a lesbian whose body was found in the Capitol Hill apartment of her girlfriend.
Police said the victim, Greta Denise Rainey, 35, had been raped and strangled. Channel 4 News reporter Paul Wagner, who broke the news about the DNA findings in a story broadcast last week, reported that D.C.
police confirmed that the DNA samples obtained from the scene of Rainey’s murder matched those obtained at the scene of the October 1985 murder of another woman in an apartment on the same floor in the same building where Rainey was murdered at 610 3rd St., S.E.
The second victim, Florence Eyssalenne, 23, was also raped and strangled, police said at the time her body was found in her apartment.
