Man convicted of 1977 murder with help of DNA

Associated Press

PITTSBURGH - A jury has found a Washington County man guilty of the murder of a 14-year-old girl in 1977.

Fifty-year-old David Kennedy was convicted yesterday of the first-degree murder of Debbie Capiola.

Prosecutors say the Findlay girl was abducted while waiting for her school bus and then murdered - strangled with her own jeans.

Though police questioned Kennedy early on, they didn't have enough evidence to convict him until new DNA technology tied sperm found on the jeans to him in 2000.

Judge Lawrence O'Toole sentenced Kennedy to life in prison without parole.