{"id":260303,"date":"2026-04-10T01:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/260303\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T01:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:12:10","slug":"sacramento-das-office-assists-in-solving-1966-marin-county-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/260303\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento DA\u2019s Office assists in solving 1966 Marin County homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 New forensic testing has clarified evidence in a decades-old homicide case, with key support from the Sacramento County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The case stems from the 1966 killing of Marjorie Rudolph in San Rafael. A suspect, Laurel James Switzer, was identified early on but could not be tied to crime scene evidence using the forensic tools available at the time.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, the San Rafael Police Department partnered with the Sacramento County District Attorney\u2019s Office to reexamine the case and advance DNA testing. Evidence was submitted to Othram, where scientists developed a DNA profile later matched to Switzer\u2019s family through genetic genealogy.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the findings place Switzer at the scene. He died shortly after the homicide, leaving some details unresolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 New forensic testing has clarified evidence in a decades-old homicide case, with key support from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-260303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}