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| Case closed 12 years after homicide |
| By gazette.net |
| Published: 01/28/2010 |
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Nearly 12 years after a Landover woman's brutal stabbing death and five years after a suspect was identified through DNA evidence, the man charged with the crime pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder, the Prince George's County state's attorney's office announced Wednesday. Gary Parham, Jr., 32, of formerly of Landover pleaded guilty in Prince George's County Circuit Court to the 1998 stabbing death of 26-year-old Theodora L. Cooper, also of Landover. He faces a total of 35 years in prison for second-degree murder and for one count of carrying a dangerous weapon with the intent to injure. Cooper was found dead in her apartment by her boyfriend on Aug. 5, 1998. She had been assaulted and stabbed and cut more than 39 times, according to the state's attorney's office. After Cooper's killing, investigators found blood from a second person splattered in the aparment and entered DNA samples into the Maryland State Police Crime Lab's database, but came back with no matches. Eight years passed with no further suspects or information. The case had gone cold. Then, in 2004, the Prince George's County Police Department was notified by the state that through a routine search of the state DNA database, Parham had been identified as a suspect in Cooper's killing. Parham had been convicted of robbery with a deadly weapon in 2001 in Prince George's County and as a result had to submit a DNA sample. By the time his DNA was matched to the scene of Cooper's murder, however, he had been released from the Maryland Department of Corrections on parole, according to the state's attorney's office. Read More. |
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