Umwicanyi ruharwa wishe abagore bane yamenyekanye hashize imyaka irenga 40 apfuye nyuma yo gupima DNA ye.
Ibimenyetso bya ADN bivuye mu bisigazwa bya Joe Ervin, wiyahuye muri gereza mu 1981, yishe Dolores Barajas w’imyaka 53; Madeleine Furey-Livaudais, 33; Gwendolyn Harris, imyaka 27; Parike ya Antoinette, 17.Bose bishwe hagati ya 1978 na 1981 i Denver no muri Kolorado no hafi yayo, ariko kugeza muri 2018 ni bwo bose bahujwe n’abashakashatsi. Uyu mwicanyi yari muri gereza ashinjwa kuba yararashe umupolisi yishe igihe yiyahura.
Umuyobozi wa Polisi mu mujyi wa Denver, Paul Pazen, yabwiye abanyamakuru ati: “Nubwo nyir’ukwica adashobora kuryozwa byimazeyo ibikorwa bye bibi, turizera ko kumenya umwicanyi bishobora kuzana amahoro mu miryango.”
Abapolisi bakora isesengura rya ADN bashoboye kumenya umwirondoro w’umwicanyi, bamenya ko ari Ervin wapfuye mu myaka 40 ishize.
CNN ivuga ko ibisigazwa bye byataburuwe mu mpera z’umwaka ushize kandi muri uku kwezi abapolisi bashoboye kwemeza ko ari we mwicanyi.George Journey, umuvandimwe wa Antoinette Parks wahohotewe – wari utwite igihe yapfaga – yavuze ko nyina na bashiki be batatu bapfuye mu myaka ishize ubwo bwicanyi kandi yifuzaga ko babona umwicanyi bamenyekanye.