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Jan 1, 2017 · Brittany Smith, a prosecutor in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, hadn’t even been born when 23-year-old Janet Walsh last carried her purse on the final night of her life, Sept. 1, 1979.
- Correspondent, "48 Hours
- 43 min
- CBS News
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Apr 6, 2020 · Gregory Hopkins, now 74, was charged with the killing more than 30 years after 23-year-old Janet Walsh was found strangled in the bedroom of her apartment.
Dec 31, 2016 · Andy Gall was a first responder in 1979 to the scene where 23-year-old Catherine Janet Walsh was found murdered in Beaver County, Pa. Now a detective in the same county, Gall was an integral...
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Oct 5, 2022 · In 2013, Hopkins was convicted of the 1979 cold case murder of 23-year-old Catherine Janet Walsh. The deceased woman’s body was found face down in her own bed in Monaca, with a bandana tied tight around her neck; her hands bound behind her back with the belt of a bathrobe.
Thirty-four years after 23-year-old Janet Walsh was found brutally murdered in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, a new piece of evidence has a determined investigator closer than ever to solving the...
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Oct 5, 2022 · Charges were originally filed against Hopkins in January 2012 after prosecutors connected him to the unsolved murder of 23-year-old Catherine Janet Walsh. Walsh was found murdered in her...
Apr 6, 2020 · On November 22, 2013, a Beaver County jury had convicted Hopkins of third-degree murder in the 1979 slaying of Janet Walsh. But the appellate court has now ruled that the prosecution's "topographical distribution" theory of old semen stains "shall not be admissible" at the new trial.
