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Cathy Swartz
The Three Rivers Police Department (TRPD) held a press conference Thursday to provide an update on the 1988 murder of Cathy Swartz, and the subsequent jailhouse suicide by the lead suspect in her murder.
St. Joseph County Prosecutor David Marvin tells Watershed Voice he plans to keep the case open, though he is unsure where his obligations now lie as this is uncharted territory.
Thanks to evidence preserved by the Three Rivers Police Department and Familial Genetic Genealogy (FGG) testing, authorities were able to use DNA and fingerprints collected at the scene of the 1988 murder of Cathy Swartz to bring charges against a suspect nearly 35 years after the murder occurred.