New evidence gets tested in 1982 killing of Edgerton woman
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Detectives in Dane County are hopeful that new evidence in a 32-year-old homicide case will help them finally solve it.
In August 1982, 34-year-old Barbara Nelson was found dead in a cornfield five days after she was abducted from the Mini Stop and Shop in Albion. Nelson, who was married and had a 3-year-old daughter, had been shot twice and her face and head were badly beaten.
The Janesville Gazette reports evidence in the case was recently sent to a lab for examination. Dane County Sheriff's Office Detective Coy Bethel says new DNA techniques could bring more details to light. He hopes to get results back in a few months, but did not say what's being tested.
Bethel says authorities have persons of interest in Nelson's death.