Cigarette Butt Helps Investigators Solve 1991 Murder Case

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — For years, police had no suspects very and few clues in the murder of 76-year old Myrtle McGill. She was found shot to death inside her home in White Township in December of 1991.
Police say her car was stolen but it was recovered in Pittsburgh.
Inside the car police found a cigarette butt which would one day become a valuable piece of evidence.
By 2007 the cigarette butt was submitted for DNA evidence. That’s when Charles Cook first became a suspect when A DNA ma