Genetic genealogy led police to Rodger Brown in Pinehurst, NC for the March 1979 death of Kathryn Donohue in Prince George County, Md.

Kathryn Donohue, 31, was found beaten, raped and killed in a parking lot on March 3, 1979. The case went unsolved for decades and no suspects were identified until police got a DNA hit in late 2024.

A man has been arrested in a woman's 1979 cold case murder after investigators used genetic genealogy to zero in on his identity, police in Maryland announced.

Kathryn Donohue, of Arlington, Virginia, was found dead at her home in Glenarden, Maryland, on March 3, 1979. Donohue was 31 at the time. Detectives investigated the case as a rape and murder ...

by Sana Azem TOPICS: PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md (7News) — In 1979, the body of Kathryn Donohue was found in a parking lot in Glenarden, Maryland. Nearly 46 years later, new DNA evidence led ...

Authorities have arrested an 82-year-old man in Moore County for the 1979 murder of Kathryn Donohue in Maryland. Roger Brown, 82, is charged in the 1979 murder of Kathryn Donohue, the Moore County ...

Rodger Zodas Brown, who is now 82 years old, was apprehended by the FBI at his North Carolina home last week. He is the chief suspect in the four-decades-long cold-case killing of Kathryn Donohue, who ...

Nearly 50 years after 31-year-old Kathryn Donohue’s body was found in Glenarden, Maryland, Prince George’s County police said Tuesday afternoon that an arrest has been made in the case.