80-Year-Old Arrested in 30-Year-Old Cold Case

An 80-year-old man named Donald Clark just got arrested in Stockton, California for a double

murder cold case from 1994. He's accused of killing Eugene Cates and Lawrence Lawre, two men

found dead after police responded to an assault call back then. Fast forward three decades,

and Stockton police cold case detectives teamed up with the Sam Joaquin County cold case

task force in California's. Department of Justice forensic experts to crack it wide open.

They pinpointed Clark as the suspect through fresh analysis. This breakthrough hits

hard for families waiting 30 years for answers. Shining a light on how persistent teamwork can

revive old wounds and deliver some measure of closure and unsolved killings. Earlier this week,

on Wednesday, U.S. Marshals from the fugitive task force, Nav Clark right there in Stockton,

no chase needed. Cold cases like this remind us, just as doesn't punch a clock,

it's grinding forward one DNA clue at a time. That's the story for today. California News Today,

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