The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announced this week the identity of a suspect in two cold cases dating back to the early 1990s.
In a Monday news release, police said they had identified Eddie George Snowden, who would turn 86 today, as a suspect in the murders of Lori Ann Perera, 31, and Pearl Wilson Ingram, 35.
Lori Ann Perera was murdered in 1992, and recent advances in DNA technology have linked a suspect to her death. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)
Perera’s body was found on December 11, 1992, in a desert area near a retail store on East Charleston Blvd, and the cause of death was ruled by the Clark County Medical Examiner as suffocation due to manual strangulation with trauma. by blunt force.
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Ingram’s body was found in a dumpster behind a grocery store down the street on January 11, 1994.
Despite investigating both cases, detectives were unable to determine who killed both women, and the cases were assigned to the Homicide Cold Case Section.
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Detectives reviewed Perera’s murder on March 1, 2007, and requested that further forensic DNA studies be conducted on the evidence recovered during the autopsy.
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The evidence resulted in a DNA profile that was then entered into the Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS.
In July 2012, detectives were able to identify additional forensic evidence recovered in Ingram’s case and forwarded it for further analysis.
As a result, the DNA matched in both cases, identifying Snowden as a possible suspect on June 30, 2022.
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Cold case investigators obtained a DNA sample from Snowden’s biological family and said they were able to confirm that he was the man who sexually assaulted and murdered Perera and Ingram.
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Snowden was born in January 1937 and investigators learned that he died of natural causes in February 2017. Police said no arrests will be made in these cases.
After hearing the news, Perera’s eldest daughter, Desiree Copping, sent a letter to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department that was shared on Facebook.
“On December 11, 1992, a loving daughter, mother of three daughters, sister, niece, cousin, and friend was tragically taken from this world,” Copping wrote. “My mother was such a beautiful person, that she did not deserve to have her life taken from her at only 31 years old. No one deserves to have her life taken from her. She can now rest in peace, knowing that her death will not go unresolved “.
Copping added that through DNA technology he was able to locate his younger sister, who was given up for adoption by his mother in 1991.
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“My mom is our guardian angel and I know that she was involved in the search for my sister,” Copping said. “This was not a coincidence.”
