A 76-year-old Colorado man has been arrested in connection to the murder of a 15-year-old girl in San Francisco from 43 years ago, according to the San Francisco Police Department
In 1978, Marissa Rolf Harvey went missing from Golden Gate Park. From New York, the teenager was visiting family in San Francisco. A day after she was last seen, her body was discovered in Sutro Heights Park.
Police arrested Mark Stanley Personette just outside of Denver and has been charged with homicide. Although he has been arrested, the investigation is still ongoing, the police department said.
"For more than four decades, Marissa Harvey’s family members have been relentless advocates to bring her killer to justice, and we hope this development in the case begins to bring a measure of healing and closure they’ve been too long denied," said San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott in a statement provided to KCBS Radio.
Although it has not been confirmed if Personnette is a suspect in other cases, the police are looking into it.
He has been arrested for other crimes over the years, police said.
"The San Francisco Police Department is requesting that law enforcement agencies within the United States thoroughly review their sexual-assault related cold-case homicides involving young women to identify any other incidents in which Personette may be a suspect," the statement said.
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