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1981 Murder Closed After Cassette Tape, Photo Lead to Confession

March 12, 2025

Detectives in Maryland say they solved a 50-year-old homicide after going back through the case's files and confronting a suspect. The Howard County Police Department says Roseann Sturtz, 20, was strangled in August 1975. In 1981, a man named Charles William Davis Jr. was interrogated about the crime. A cassette tape of the interview was in the case file. Inside Edition Digital’s Mara Montalbano has more.

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