A Minnesota man was eating a hot dog at a hockey game when, the authorities said, he wiped his mouth with a napkin and tossed the remains in the trash. It was the moment cold-case investigators had been waiting for. The authorities, who had used a genealogy company to identify the man as a suspect in an unsolved murder from 1993, dug the napkin out of the trash and used DNA on it to tie him to the case, court records show. Mr. Westrom has denied involvement in the case, according to the authorities. A representative from a law firm representing him declined to comment on Sunday.

Source: New York Times February 17, 2019 22:30 UTC