Sondra Better
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- On Aug. 24, 1998, Better had been just days away from retiring from her job at a consignment shop. That day, two teenagers noticed that the store was still open about half an hour after the usual closing time. When they stepped inside, they found the 68-year-old dead on the floor. She had been stabbed and bludgeoned to death, and the wounds on her hands suggested that she had tried to fight off her attacker
- According to court records, there was plenty of evidence for them to examine. A trail of the killer’s blood led from the sales clerk’s body to the cash register and out the store’s front door. ball, part of the same set, was sitting on a wooden tray on top of a glass table in the store. Detectives dusted it and found fingerprints. They had a working theory about the weapon that had been used to slit her throat: A cake knife had gone missing from the store that same day. They also had a possible suspect. About a half-hour before Better was found dead, a shopper had seen her talking to a tall, slender white man, who was haggling over the price of a couch.
- in December 2018, Barket applied for a job as a certified nursing assistant, which required submitting a set of fingerprints for a background check. Soon, police in Delray Beach got a phone call: His fingerprints had matched the ones that had they found on the marble ball more than 20 years earlier.
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