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ORLANDO, Fla. - Thanks to new technology, the Orlando Police Department has used DNA evidence collected in 2001 to make a composite sketch of a man they believe to be a murderer.
On Oct. 21, 2001, Christine Franke was a 25-year-old University of Central Florida student working to complete a degree in education.
After a working a shift as a bartender and waitress at Cigarz Bar at Universal CityWalk, she drove home.
She was found the next day, dead in her Audubon Park apartment.
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OPD detectives have been working on the 15-year-old cold case since then, but have not been able to identify a suspect or make an arrest.
DNA evidence was collected at the scene of Franke's slaying, but it has never caused a hit in the FBI's Combined DNA Index System.
Orlando police Chief John Mina announced Friday that exactly 15 years after Franke's death, a new step had been made in the case using DNA phenotyping.
DNA phenotyping is the process of predicting physical appearance and ancestry from unidentified DNA evidence, Mina explained.
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