David Carpenter, the "Trailside Killer" on death row for the murders of seven people, has been linked to an unsolved 1979 stabbing death of a jogger in San Francisco, police said Tuesday.
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<\/br>DNA evidence links Carpenter to the slaying of Mary Bennett, 23, whose body was found partially covered by dirt and branches in a rugged headlands area overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the San Francisco Police Department said.
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<\/br>Bennett had been stabbed multiple times in the neck, chest and back.
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<\/br>The new evidence, police said, was examined after cold-case detectives obtained DNA samples from Carpenter. Carpenter, 79, is at San Quentin Prison awaiting execution after being convicted of the murders in the 1980s, police said.
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<\/br>Carpenter’s victims were attacked in public parks and hiking trails in Northern California, including in Santa Cruz and Marin counties. Some of the victims had been raped, authorities said.
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<\/br>People avoided many hiking trails in the crime areas until Carpenter was arrested in May 1981.
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<\/br>— Robert J. Lopez
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