Florida Nurse’s Brutal Murder Solved After 37 Years — Thanks To Suspect’s Family Scandal
DNA has proven who killed 29-year-old Teresa Scalf in her home in 1986.
Authorities in Florida have announced they have finally solved the cold case murder of a nurse back in 1986 after locating a suspect through DNA.
Teresa Lee Scalf, 29, was a registered ICU nurse who worked at what is now Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center. She had studied her way up from a role in phlebotomy and as a respiratory technician before qualifying to work in trauma, something she saw as a way of providing comfort to those in need.
However, on October 27th 1986, Teresa failed to show up at her job and her colleagues knew something was wrong. When she still hadn’t appeared by later that evening, her mother Betty went to her Lakeland apartment and jimmied open the door to a terrible scene.
According to the Polks County Sheriff’s Office, Teresa’s throat had been brutally slit as the young woman tried desperately to defend herself.
Sheriff Grady Judd said: “He cut her head almost off. It was violent, and it was horrible.”
Detective Matt Newbold added that there had been no sign of forced entry at the front of the apartment, something Betty…
