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Investigators make arrest in 1987 killing of 34-year-old mother
Investigators used advanced DNA profiling and forensic genealogy to identify and arrest Cortez Sabino Lake, linking him to the 1987 murder with a septillion-level DNA match.
- This past week authorities announced the arrest of Cortez Sabino Lake in Margit Schuller's 1987 murder; Beaufort County Sheriff P.J. Tanner said Lake is held pending a bond hearing.
- Cold case investigator Bob Bromage said DNA from a 1987 blood trail was profiled in 2005 with no CODIS hit, but a 2019 forensic-genealogy breakthrough by Parabon Nanolabs narrowed suspects.
- Investigators determined Schuller had been shot inside the Palmetto Apartments laundry room and crawled outside, where her daughter later found her dead under a tree, while the bifurcating blood trail indicated the assailant was injured.
- Investigators say the suspect lived locally and Lake worked over 30 years at Beaufort Memorial Hospital; the Sheriff's Office urges anyone knowing Lake from Battery Creek Apartments or Palmetto Apartments to contact Crime Stoppers as the investigation continues.
- Investigators say a court-ordered DNA sample produced a match described as in the "septillions" and detectives recovered the 1989 murder weapon matched to a casing from the laundromat.
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