Las Vegas police provide update on 1979 killing of teen girl

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Las Vegas held a quality league Monday day to supply an update connected a homicide lawsuit from 1979.

According to accusation released Monday by the Texas laboratory Othram Inc., the quality league pertains to the January 1979 slaying of Kim Bryant, 15.

The teen was reported missing aft she failed to instrumentality location from school. Her assemblage was aboriginal discovered successful a godforsaken country adjacent West Charleston Boulevard and South Buffalo Drive. Police concluded that she had been sexually assaulted.

According to accusation released by Othram, constabulary person identified a fishy arsenic Johnny Peterson, 19, who died successful 1993, and the lawsuit was solved by utilizing forensic-grade genome sequencing provided by the forensic sequencing lab.

Othram precocious helped lick different acold lawsuit from Las Vegas: the 1989 sidesplitting of 14-year-old Stephanie Isaacson.

This is simply a processing story. Check backmost for updates.

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