Investigators have solved the cold case murders of a woman and a girl in the 1970s using the same familial DNA technique that identified the suspected Golden State Killer.
Joseph Holt, a real estate agent who died of a heart attack in 2014, was named on Monday as the killer of 27-year-old Brynn Rainey and 16-year-old Carol Andersen in South Lake Tahoe, California.
Holt had no known criminal record, and his surviving family members had no idea was a killer, according to the El Dorado County District Attorney.
The two murders were not previously known to be linked, until a DNA analysis revealed a connection.
Brynn Rainey, 27, (left) was killed in 1977 and 16-year-old Carol Andersen (right) in 1979. Both died in South Lake Tahoe, California in cases that have now been solved
Joseph Holt, a real estate agent who died in 2014, was named on Monday as the killer. He died of a heart attack in 2014 and had never been suspected of a crime during his lifetime
Rainey was last seen alive on July 24, 1977. The young woman had just moved to Lake Tahoe from Ohio, and was working as a Keno caller at a casino just over the state line in Nevada.
She would often hitchhike or ride a bus to work, and was on her way in for a graveyard shift starting at 2am when she disappeared.
Horseback riders discovered Rainey's body the following month in a shallow grave near the Stateline Stables. Though the coroner couldn't be certain, he speculated that the cause of death was strangulation.
Two years later, Carol vanished while on her way to a party on June 30, 1979.
Brynn Rainey had recently moved to Lake Tahoe from Ohio and worked at a casino
The teen's body was found on the side of a road hours later, with signs of strangulation and ligature marks indicating that she had been bound.
For decades, the cases went unsolved despite the best efforts of investigators.
Carol Andersen was on her way to a party when she disappeared in 1979
Then in 2017, there was a break in the case, when more sensitive DNA analysis was able to determine that the same man had left a blood stain on Rainey’s shirt and DNA recovered from Carol's body during her autopsy.
A search of the FBI's national criminal database returned no matches, however.
In 2018, the county's cold case task force partnered with Parabon Nanolabs to construct a “family tree” from the suspect DNA in the case.
The same technique led detectives in the Golden State Killer investigation to suspect James DeAngelo last year.
El Dorado County investigators decided to try the approach, using public the public genealogy database GEDMatch.com to zero in on three brothers, all deceased.
A DNA sample from one brother's son, as well as DNA from a toothbrush he had used before he died, identified Joseph Holt as the killer.
Holt was born in 1947 and grew up in San Jose, graduating from Cupertino High School and UC-Berkley.
He moved to South Lake Tahoe in 1974 and began a career in real estate. He lived about a six minute walk from where Carol was last seen, and a mile and a half from where Rainey's body was dumped.
Last month, police executed a search warrant of a garage where some of Holt's property had been stored since his death, and found chilling evidence of other crimes, according to the Mountain Democrat.
One suspicious item was a newspaper clipping about a 1975 shooting in Los Gatos. After two men confronted a car burglar who was in the process of breaking into a vehicle, the burglar shot one of them and fled.
This suspect sketch from a 1975 shooting in Los Gatos strongly resembles Holt. A newspaper clipping referencing the shooting was found among his belongings in storage
The shooting victim survived and provided police with a detailed description, which a sketch artist used to create a likeness. The sketch strongly resembles Holt.
The handgun used in the crime was also found to have been stolen from a cab driver in South Lake Tahoe, where Holt was living.
Holt lived his life outside of the suspicion of law enforcement, working quietly in real estate in Lake Tahoe.
Holt was 66 at the time of his death in South Lake Tahoe in April 2014. He died of a heart attack and other complications according to his death certificate.
Investigators said that Holt’s surviving family members had no idea he was a killer, and fully cooperated with law enforcement during the investigation.
'He was a pretty successful predator,' District Attorney Vern Pierson said at a press conference.
Pierson believes there is a high likelihood that Holt was involved in other crimes, and urged anyone with information to come forward.
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Main photo article Investigators have solved the cold case murders of a woman and a girl in the 1970s using the same familial DNA technique that identified the suspected Golden State Killer.
Joseph Holt, a real estate agent who died of a heart attack in 2014, was named on Monday as the killer of 27-year-old Brynn...
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