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AZ Cold Case Unit Makes Another Arrest
By azcentral.com
Published: 08/24/2010

Investigators who used forensic evidence to link a Phoenix man to the unsolved 1981 slaying of a 93-year-old woman heralded the case as the Valley's latest example of a cold-case collaboration resulting in criminal charges.

Relatives of Martha Winters, who was fatally beaten by a burglar at her Phoenix home nearly three decades ago, stood Monday alongside detectives to thank them for providing closure to the tragedy.

Winters was found badly wounded with her 92-year-old sister, Jesse Winters, at a home in the 500 block of West Southern Avenue in February 1981. Phoenix police revisited the unsolved case with detectives from the Maricopa County Attorney's Office after analyzing evidence from the original crime scene.

Both women were hospitalized with serious injuries, though Jesse Winters survived.

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