Genetic genealogy led police to Rodger Brown in Pinehurst, NC for the March 1979 death of Kathryn Donohue in Prince George County, Md.

Kathryn Donohue, of Arlington, Virginia, was found dead at her home in Glenarden, Maryland, on March 3, 1979. Donohue was 31 at the time. Detectives investigated the case as a rape and murder ...

A man has been arrested in a woman's 1979 cold case murder after investigators used genetic genealogy to zero in on his identity, police in Maryland announced.

An 82-year-old man, Rodger Zodas Brown, was arrested for the 1979 murder of Kathryn Donohue, thanks to a cold case unit's use of forensic genetic genealogy DNA analysis.

A North Carolina man was arrested this month, 46 years after he allegedly killed and raped a woman in Maryland. The man, 82-year-old Rodger Zodas Brown, was living in Pinehurst, N.C. at the time of ...

Investigators have charged Brown with first-degree murder and rape in connection to the 1979 killing of 31-year-old Kathryn Donohue in Glenarden, Maryland. Donohue's body was discovered on March 3, ...

by Sana Azem TOPICS: PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md (7News) — In 1979, the body of Kathryn Donohue was found in a parking lot in Glenarden, Maryland. Nearly 46 years later, new DNA evidence led ...

The woman’s family said in a statement shared by police that the recent arrest has given them “a sense of closure” that they “never thought possible.” ...

Rodger Zodas Brown, who is now 82 years old, was apprehended by the FBI at his North Carolina home last week. He is the chief suspect in the four-decades-long cold-case killing of Kathryn Donohue, who ...

Kathryn Donohue, 31, was found beaten, raped and killed in a parking lot on March 3, 1979. The case went unsolved for decades and no suspects were identified until police got a DNA hit in late 2024.