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   Almost 36 years ago, 14-year-old Wendy Jerome left her New York   
   home to deliver a birthday card to her best friend and never   
   returned home again.   
      
   Just hours later, on Thanksgiving night Nov. 22, 1984, Jerome’s   
   body was found next to a dumpster near the back of a school by a   
   pedestrian walking through the neighborhood.   
      
   “She was partially covered up and there were obvious signs of   
   trauma,” Capt. Frank Umbrino of the Rochester Police Department   
   said during a press conference streamed by WROC. “That night was   
   the beginning of an exhaustive investigation.”   
      
   With no witnesses to the crime, the horrific rape and murder   
   case soon went cold, but on Friday, after nearly four decades,   
   the Rochester Police Department’s Major Crimes Unit, alongside   
   Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley, announced the   
   arrest of 56-year-old Timothy Williams.   
      
   “Marlene, you never gave up hope that law enforcement would   
   advocate for Wendy until an arrest was made,” Doorley told   
   Wendy’s emotional mother, Marlene Jerome, during the press   
   conference. “You have remained steadfast in ensuring that this   
   community did not forget Wendy. I assure you, as we stand here   
   today, we have never, ever forgotten your daughter.”   
      
   Williams was identified as a possible suspect in the case after   
   police received permission from the state to conduct a familial   
   DNA search using evidence left behind at the crime scene.   
      
   Investigators had used semen found during the autopsy to   
   complete a DNA profile, which they initially loaded into the   
   Combined DNA Index System used to help identify criminal   
   suspects in 2000, according to The New York Times.  But the   
   sample did not yield any matches.   
      
   Investigators continued to work the case, finally getting the   
   break they needed after the state gave investigators permission   
   to do a familial DNA search.   
      
   They received the results back in July, which allowed them to   
   identify a small pool of possible suspects in the case.   
      
   Using additional DNA testing and investigation, authorities   
   eventually identified Williams, who was living in Melbourne,   
   Florida, as the suspected killer in the case.   
      
   He was arrested at his home without incident and is now awaiting   
   extradition back to New York.   
      
   The arrest brought an emotional conclusion to a case that has   
   continued to haunt investigators for years.   
      
   “The case went cold but it certainly never got forgotten,”   
   Umbrino said at the press conference. “Even as investigators who   
   worked the case over the last almost four decades retired,   
   others took up the fight. They were determined to some day be   
   able to provide to Wendy’s home and her family some answers   
   about what happened to their beautiful daughter.”   
      
   Umbrino broke down in tears Friday as he turned to Marlene and   
   said, “Marlene, I am sorry it took so long, but we finally did   
   it,” before giving the grieving mother a long hug.   
      
   Julie Hahn, who now serves as the chief of the Major Felony   
   Bureau in the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office, said the   
   case was so influential in her own life that it inspired her   
   career as a prosecutor.   
      
   She had been just 11 years old living in Rochester when her   
   mother told her about Jerome’s death.   
      
   “I remember my mother telling me about a young girl who had been   
   killed one day and I decided that I wanted to be an attorney   
   that gave a voice to victims of crime,” she said. “Wendy’s story   
   helped to shape me into the prosecutor that I am today. It’s the   
   reason I’ve been so committed for the last 21 years to being a   
   prosecutor in this community.”   
      
   Hahn became involved in the case herself in 2011 and said she   
   was now “honored and proud” to have the opportunity to prosecute   
   the case in court.   
      
   “Marlene and her family deserve justice,” she said. “This   
   community deserves justice.”   
      
   An autopsy determined that Jerome died from massive blunt force   
   trauma and multiple lacerations to her body.   
      
   “Honestly, the extent of her injuries are too horrendous to talk   
   about here,” Umbrino said. “What is safe to say is that Wendy   
   did put up a fight.”   
      
   Investigators said Williams — who was just 20 years old at the   
   time of the slaying — had lived in the same neighborhood as   
   Jerome; however, they had not know each other and he had not   
   been considered a suspect at the time.   
      
   He moved to Florida shortly after the murder.   
      
   After waiting nearly 40 years for justice, Jerome’s mom,   
   Marlene, was emotional Friday as she thanked all the   
   investigators who had worked tirelessly over the years to try to   
   bring her daughter’s killer to justice.   
      
      
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