A Gainesville man was charged Thursday with the rape and murder of a Texas woman after spending two years in a Florida prison on an unrelated felony charge.
Officials took a DNA sample from prisoner Lucky Odom, 52, in 2007 and sent it to a national DNA database, Gainesville Police Department spokesman Keith Kameg said.
Odom's DNA was linked to that of the sperm found on the body of Kathryn Munroe, who was murdered in 1982, he said.
Munroe was about to enter her sophomore year as a medical student at Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine when she was raped and strangled on the playground of a Fort Worth elementary school, an article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram stated.
While living in Gainesville, Odom was arrested for stealing copper and selling it, Kameg said. He was caught in 2006 by a GPD detective and arrested on several felony charges, he said.
