A drop of blood has led to the arrest of a suspect in the unsolved 1989 murders of Catherine and George Peacock in Danby, Vermont, police say.
George, 76, and Catherine, 73, were killed at their residence in September 1989, according to the Vermont State Police website. The couple had been stabbed to death and there was no sign of forced entry.
Police announced in a news release Thursday that they finally arrested a suspect in the case after a decades-long investigation involving detectives and cold case specialists. The suspect, Michael Anthony Lewis, 79, was arrested at his home in Syracuse, New York, on two counts of second-degree murder and is in jail in New York awaiting extradition to Vermont.
CNN could not determine if Louise has an attorney.
Louise was married to one of the Peacocks’ daughters at the time of the murders, according to the press release. He was identified as a suspect just two weeks after his in-laws were killed – but investigators have been unable to prove a “decisive link” to the murders, police say.
But in May 2020, DNA testing confirmed that a drop of blood found inside Louise’s car belonged to George Peacock. The blood had previously been tested, but the results were inconclusive, according to the release. Advances in forensic technology in recent decades allowed investigators to match the blood to George, police said.
