DNA cracks 1986 Florida cold case

WINTER PARK, Fla. (WESH) – A man has been arrested in connection with a brutal Florida murder that happened 33 years ago.

On July 14, 1986, 38-year-old Eveline Aguilar was found dead in her bedroom in Winter Park. She had been sexually assaulted and her throat severely lacerated.

On Wednesday, authorities in Knoxville, Tennessee, arrested Danny Lynn Emitt and charged him with premeditated first-degree murder in Aguilar’s death.

A warrant for Emitt’s arrest was obtained after evidence samples from the case were resubmitted to a national database.

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