Envelope Licked By Killer Solves Cold Case Murder
Anna Kane was murdered in 1988, but it was her killer’s desire to gloat that finally led to the case being cracked.
State troopers in Pennsylvania’s Berks County have announced they have at last managed to solve a cold case homicide dating back to the late 1980s.
Anna Kane was 26 and working as a prostitute around Franklin and South Sixth streets in Reading when she was last seen in the early hours of October 23rd 1988.
Her body was found later that day in a wooded area along Ontelaunee Trail near the Route 662 intersection in Perry Township. She had a rope around her neck and several bruises on her face that a forensic pathologist determined she had sustained as she valiantly attempted to fight off her attacker.
An autopsy confirmed Anna had been strangled and also located traces of a man’s biological material on her body and clothing. Because her clothes and hair were dry, it was thought Anna had been murdered elsewhere before being dumped by the side of the road after it had rained.
Unfortunately, forensic techniques were limited at the time, and that was as far as investigators could get without any witnesses to the crime or Anna’s abduction.
