‘I did not see this day coming’: DNA leads to arrest exactly 39 years after teen girl stabbed to death, police say

Linn County Sheriff(CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa) — On Dec. 19, 1979, Michelle Martinko, 18, left a school banquet and drove her family’s car to the Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to buy a winter coat, Cedar Rapids police said. The next day, she was found stabbed to death in the mall parking lot. This “tragic …

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