After 36 years, the murder of a 70 year old woman in Maine has been solved by way of a phony chewing gum survey. A transient in Washington state unknowingly participated in the survey which was rigged to obtain his DNA. Click below to read more.
A DNA sample from a phony “chewing gum survey” led to the arrest of a man who has been charged with killing a 70-year-old woman in 1976, making this the oldest cold case to ever be cracked in Maine.
Gary Sanford Raub, 63, was arrested on Monday in Seattle and charged with murdering 70-year-old Blanche Kimball in Augusta, Maine.
Kimball was found stabbed to death inside her State Street home on June 12, 1976 after neighbors called police to say they had not seen her for several days. The killer eluded investigators and the case turned cold, but authorities kept at it over the decades.
