In 1987, college student Cathy Sposito was brutally murdered while hiking in Yavapai County, Arizona. Decades later, through the efforts of volunteers and advances in genetic genealogy, her case and others were solved, providing closure to victims' families.

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Sources

1. AZ Family Digital News Staff, Pulled from the grave: Man tied to decades-old Prescott college student's murder, AZ Family, 2023
2. N/A, Cathy Sposito's killer ID'd 36 years after college student murdered on Arizona trail, CBS News, 2023
3. Corrado, Brent, Garcia, Nicole, Cathy Sposito: Man who killed Arizona woman linked to other crimes, sheriff says, FOX 10, 2023
4. N/A, Bryan Bennett - Genealogy Explained, Genealogy Explained, 2023
5. N/A, Police say killer in nearly 36-year-old Arizona cold case died by suicide in Kentucky | News, Wdrb.com, 2023
6. N/A, Police ID killer in 1987 cold case on hiking trail that has haunted Yavapai County, Associated Press, 2023
7. Winters, Debra, Sheriff's Office links 1987 Sposito murder, other assaults to man who killed himself in 1994, The Daily Courier, 2023
8. Smith, Fred, 3 Are Sought to Help Find Hiker's Killer, Arizona Republic, 1987
9. N/A, Rocks Studied in Hiker's Slaying, Arizona Republic, 1987
10. Smith, Fred, 2 Rocks Examined in the Dath of Arizona Hiker on Prescott Butte, Arizona Republic, 1987

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