On Tuesday, November 20, representatives of the office of the Sheriff County of Santa Clara (CA) arrested 74-year-old John Arthur Getreu after new DNA analysis has helped to establish his involvement in the murder of a graduate of Stanford Leslie Marie Perlov in 1973.
But law enforcement is not going to stop. According to Sheriff Laurie Smith, Getreu could be a serial killer.
«We know that he committed the murder. We believe that there are other cases that may be similar [to this],» said the Sheriff.
13 Feb 1973 21-year-old Leslie Marie Perlov was gone. The last time she was seen in the workplace in Palo Alto. Later in the day was discovered the car girl orange Chevrolet Nova 1972. He was parked at the gate of the old mine in Los Altos Hills, close to the motorway exit 280 and about 5 miles from her place of work.
In 1973, @Stanford grad from Leslie was strangled & her car abandoned in the hills above campus. 45 years later, @SCCoSheriff arrests ex-security guard and convicted killer & rapist John Arthur Getreu. His neighbors are in shock. Sister of victim rejoices. 505,610,710 p @KTVU pic.twitter.com/8tjs56i8SA
— Henry K. Lee (@henrykleeKTVU) November 22, 2018
According to the Sheriff’s office, the girl’s body found 3 days later under a tree not far from the place where they found her car. The coroner stated that the cause of death Gems was strangulation.
In July, the government gave the company Parabon NanoLabs unknown DNA profile of the man, found in the evidence to the case of Pearls. Experts by using the «innovative genetic analysis, sophisticated methods of identification and traditional genealogical methods to establish the correlation between an unknown subject and his/her known ancestors» found that the DNA might belong Getreu.
According to police, the suspect first confronted with the letter of the law. Even before the assassination of Gems a man imprisoned in a German prison for the rape and murder of 16-year-old girls in 1964, while his father, Sergeant U.S. army, where he served. According to the Sheriff’s office, the victim was the daughter of an army chaplain.
#BREAKING: @SCCoSheriff»s Office Investigators have arrested John 74yo Arthur Getreu of Hayward for the 1973 murder of Leslie from. #ABC7Now pic.twitter.com/ewCCvr8tEY
— Chris Nguyen (@ChrisNguyenABC7) November 21, 2018
Just yesterday, appeared similar news about the murder of a student at Harvard University 50 years ago, which was solved 50 years later.
