LA PORTE COUNTY, Ind. -- A suspect has been identified in a 45-year-old cold case.

Officials at the La Porte County Sheriff's Office say advancing technology allowed them to identify the suspect in the murder of Juanita Boyd as Carl David Phillips.

Boyd was 31 years old when she was killed in 1981. Officials say she was last seen at Snyder's Corner Tavern in La Porte. Her body was later found on February 28, 1981, in the back of her green Pontiac Catalina. Officials say she was strangled and stabbed to death. 

Investigators say Phillips was connected to her death through the discovery of DNA evidence. He died in 2017; officials say that, if he was alive, the sheriff's office would have charged him with Murder.

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