'In Cold Blood' killers' DNA not linked to Fla. quadruple murder

[Scairp]

Updated at 5:21 p.m. ET

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. The best chance to solve a decades-old quadruple murder in Florida ended Tuesday when sheriff's deputies said they could not link DNA to the two killers profiled in the book "In Cold Blood."


The convicted killers, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, were long suspected in the slayings of Cliff Walker, his wife, Christine, and their two children. The family was killed in December of 1959, about a month after Smith and Hickock murdered a Kansas farmer and his family.


I guess that is that. Some mysteries can never be solved.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57598368/in-cold-blood-killers-dna-not-linked-to-fla-murders/

[frogmarch]

1. Thanks for the info and the link.

Here's more from the link you posted:

Authorities said they were unable to match the DNA because only partial profiles could be taken from the exhumed bodies in December, and the Walker crime scene samples were old and degraded. No more tests were scheduled.

"The complication lies in the fact that there's still some uncertainty," Bell said. "It wouldn't exclude them but it also does not provide us with any level of confidence to say there's a match because there's not."

Police still believe the two men were likely involved.

Yep, it looks like that is that on solving this case.

[raccoon]

2. I was about to post this, and you beat me to it!

I personally don't believe Hickock and Smith killed the Walker family. Not that they
weren't capable of something like that; I believe had they not been caught, they would have killed
others. Capote apparently thought so too.

I believe the Walker family was killed by somebody who knew them. Some local man who had the hots for Christine.