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33 Year-Old Cold Case Homicide Solved; One Relative Innocent, Another Guilty, Authorities Say
DNA evidence and a confession have led to an arrest in a brutal homicide cold case committed 33 years ago.
Christopher Joseph Larry Speelman, 58, New Oxford, confessed at the Gettysburg State Police barracks on July 27 to the murder of Edna Laughman, 85, of Oxford Township over three decades earlier.
Laughman was raped and murdered in her home located on 1500 block of Carlisle Pike on Aug. 13, 1987.
Her nephew Barry Laughman falsely confessed to killing her-- spending 16 years behind bars, but DNA evidence in 2003 exonerated them.
A new test was conducted on the attackers DNA in 2018, po…
