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Last remaining physical evidence in Reker girls case does not yield DNA profile
A single hair from the 1974 cold case was consumed during testing, leaving investigators without a DNA profile to compare against suspects.
- A single strand of hair, the last physical evidence in the 1974 Reker girls case, failed to yield a DNA profile after the sample was consumed during analysis.
- Mary Reker and Susie Reker disappeared in the summer of 1974 after leaving home to visit a nearby store; their bodies were discovered 26 days later at a quarry near St. Cloud, Minnesota.
- The Stearns County Sheriff's Office had planned to test any recovered DNA profile against Herbert Notch, who has long been a person of interest in the case.
- Before Notch died in 2015 at a St. Cloud hospital, Rita Reker visited him to ask if he murdered her daughters, though he offered no deathbed confession.
- Zach Sorenson of Forum News Service confirmed that the destroyed sample prevents any further testing, leaving the 1974 case without the potential for definitive forensic answers.
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