Arrest Made in Nearly 36-Year-Old Cold Case In Rochester

Rochester police have closed the unsolved rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl nearly 36 years ago.

Wendy Jerome's body was found Thanksgiving night off Webster Avenue. She had visited a friend and never made it home.

Police used new technology to link DNA from evidence at the crime scene to a person in the crime database who is related to the man arrested this week in Florida.

56-year-old Timothy Williams was arrested at his home in Melbourne, Florida, and will be extradited to New York to face murder and rape charges.


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