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Genealogical technology leads to arrest in 36-year-old murder of elderly St. Pete woman

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Opal Weil, 82, was violently murdered in her St. Petersburg home in 1987. There were no suspects and the case went cold. Detectives reopened the case in 2020 using genealogical technology. They narrowed it down to a suspect, Michael Lapnieswki Jr., who lived a 1/2 mile from Weil.

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Genealogical technology leads to arrest in 36-year-old murder of elderly St. Pete woman

The family of Opal Weil, who was violently murdered in her St. Petersburg home in 1987, is finally getting some peace after an arrest has been made in the decades-old cold case.

·Tampa, United States
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abc Action News broke the news in Tampa, United States on Friday, February 3, 2023.
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