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State authorities have made an arrest in the long-unsolved
killing of a Minnesota mom — announcing they identified the
suspect through DNA found at the scene in 1986.

Michael Allan Carbo Jr., 52, has been charged with second-degree
murder in the 1986 killing of Nancy Daugherty, authorities
announced earlier this week.

Daugherty, of Chisholm, was last seen alive early on July 16,
1986 and was discovered dead in her Chisholm home that afternoon
by police performing a welfare check, according to The
Associated Press.

She had been beaten and sexually assaulted before she was
strangled, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said in
a press release.

Daugherty, a mom of two, worked as a part-time bartender and as
a nursing home aide. The night before she was killed she was out
drinking with her boyfriend, who dropped her off at her house
and was was the last person to see her alive, according to the
Duluth News Tribune.

Daugherty was married at the time, and her husband was overseas
for the Air National Guard. The boyfriend, who was not
identified, was the person who requested a welfare check on
Daugherty after he wasn't able to contact her that morning.

Though DNA was found at the scene of the crime and officials
were able to build a profile based on "bodily fluids found on
the victim," the profile did not match anyone in a criminal
database, the release stated. The case went cold as authorities
worked to interview and collect DNA from more than 100 people.

But earlier this year, Chisholm police approached the state BCA
about submitting the evidence to a company that researches
public genealogy databases. It turned up an apparent match in
Carbo and a follow-up investigation matched him to the original
DNA profile, police said.

However, the identification of Carbo as the alleged killer
raises a number of questions — as he was only a teenager at the
time of Daugherty's slaying and did not know the woman,
according to local outlet WDIO. He wasn't even a person of
interest at the time the mother was killed in 1986.

He did however attend school with Daugherty's children and lived
less than a mile from her house, according to the AP.

Officials praised the arrest after it was announced.

“This is the day Nancy Daugherty’s family and all of Chisholm
have waited for over 34 years,” Chisholm Police Chief Vern
Manner said Wednesday during a press conference.

“My mom loved to help people,” Daugherty's daughter Gina said in
a statement read by Manner at the presser. "There are no words
to describe the terrible holes that were left in so many lives,
including my own."

Manner said the family will not be making any further statements
at this time.

Carbo is due back in court on Aug. 6. It is not clear if he has
an attorney able to comment on his behalf.

https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/nancy-daugherty-case-michael- carbo-identified-as-suspect-by-dna

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