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DAILYKENN.com --Today she would have been about 60 years old.
Robin Gisela Brooks was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death.
That was April 24, 1980.
She was only 20 years old at the time.
Arrested 40 year after the crime is Phillip Lee Wilson, 71.
Wilson remains innocent until proven guilty.
"The killer apparently cut himself during the assault," according to sacbee.com.
He left his DNA profile.
Brooks was killed in her Rosemont, California apartment.
She was found by a co-worker after she failed to report to work.
The co-worker found Brooks face down on her water bed.
The victim worked at a doughnut shop to make ends meet.
She met her end when a killer entered her apartment.
"In 1980, there were no immediate suspects at the time of her death, and the case went cold," the report said.
The arrest was possible due to advancement in DNA profiling.
What do you think? Why does the 'me too' movement not seem to care about this horrific rape and murder?
Forty years to the day of her gruesome death, Sacramento law enforcement officials announced Friday an arrest in the stabbing death of Robin Gisela Brooks, who was 20 years old when she was sexually assaulted and killed in her Rosemont apartment on April 24, 1980.
Phillip Lee Wilson, 71, was arrested at his home on Thursday, Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman, Sgt. Tess Deterding said at Friday’s news conference alongside Sheriff Scott Jones and Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert.
Wilson is being held without bail at the Sacramento County Main Jail on one charge of murder.
It was unclear how Wilson knew Brooks. Deterding said further details about the case would not be disclosed at this time.
Brooks had moved to the Sacramento area from New York six months before her death and worked as a clerk at a doughnut shop on Keifer Boulevard and Tallyho Drive, according to The Sacramento Bee’s article at the time.
At the time of the slaying, Wilson lived in a rented home on remote Happy Lane, which borders Mather Field and is less than two miles from where Brooks lived.
Brooks’ body was discovered by a co-worker who checked on her after she didn’t show up for work.
Another person who worked at the doughnut shop at the time of the killing told The Bee that Brooks had been “jovial” when she left work at midnight April 24, and spoke about having to make her bed at bedtime. She walked home alone from the doughnut shop. The bed was still unmade when her body was found, The Bee reported.
Her body was found face down on her waterbed, which had also been pierced in the stabbing. Deterding said that Brooks was found with multiple stab wounds and was sexually assaulted in the crime.
In 1980, there were no immediate suspects at the time of her death, and the case went cold.
