Bethesda Area Homicide Linked to Home Invasions

WJLA is all over the news that Montgomery County investigators linked DNA evidence from the crime scene of the homicide of a Bethesda area woman to two other home-invasion burglaries in the neighborhood. There have been a series of six similar home-invasions in the general area from Potomac to The Palisades over the last year, the most recent one resulting in the killing of Mary Havenstein, 63.

The DNA evidence now shows that at least three of them were perpetrated by the same man, a suspect who has not been identified but is described as a 20-something Hispanic male, between 5'2" to 5'8", and 150 pounds. Police released the computer composite sketch at right, which looks a little too close to those Conan O'Brien "If They Mated" composites. Hopefully the DNA evidence will help identify a specific suspect.