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Nov 28, 2018 · In 2018, 17 years after his death, investigators finally matched the profile for Jane’s killer closely enough to Sumpter’s brother to determine that Michael Sumpter was the man who apparently scaled Jane’s fire escape on the evening of January 6, 1969, and raped and murdered her in her apartment.
Advances in DNA technology and testing led authorities in Massachusetts to identify Michael Sumpter as the man who raped and killed anthropology student Jane Sanders Britton on Jan. 7, 1969,...
Nov 20, 2018 · The Middlesex District Attorney's Office on Tuesday identified a local man, Michael Sumpter, as the person responsible for the 1969 violent death of Harvard University student Jane Britton, after investigators spent the past year conducting numerous forensic tests on DNA evidence that was collected both during the autopsy decades ago and more re...
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Jun 28, 2017 · 48-years ago, a young woman's life was cut short when she was bludgeoned to death in her own apartment. Today, the murder of 23-year old Jane Sanders Britton remains unsolved. The Harvard grad student and Needham native's body was discovered in January of 1969 — partially covered by a rug and a fur coat — in her apartment, where she lived ...
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Nov 20, 2018 · DNA evidence points to Michael Sumpter as the man who killed Jane Britton, who was sexually assaulted and bludgeoned to death in her Cambridge apartment in January 1969, Middlesex County...
Nov 21, 2018 · DNA Evidence Solves Cold Case Nearly 50 Years After Harvard Student's Rape And Murder. Jane Britton was raped and murdered in Cambridge back in 1969. Now, nearly 50 years later, her family finally has answers. By Noah Hurowitz Nov 21, 2018, 1:13 PM ET.
Nov 9, 2020 · In We Keep the Dead Close, author Becky Cooper revisits the killing of Harvard graduate student Jane Britton. The 440+ page book is overstuffed with suspects, motives, red herrings and...
