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Years after DNA evidence linked a 1991 killing and a 1993 rape<\/a> in Massachusetts, forensic genetic genealogy helped investigators identify the man authorities say was responsible for both cold cases.<\/p>\n

Evidence from the killing of Cherie Bishop in 1991 and the rape of Donna Bell in 1993 was uploaded to the Combined DNA Index System<\/a>, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz said Thursday.<\/p>\n

“For decades, the Bishop and Bell families were deprived of the full story of what happened to their loved ones,” Cruz said. “They carried these tragedies across lifetimes.”<\/p>\n

Investigators said Bishop, 28, was found strangled in a<\/a> wooded area near her Brockton apartment in June 1991. Bell was raped in Brockton in 1993.<\/p>\n

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Bishop was found dead in nearby Mulberry Park, wearing only socks and a diamond earring, Cruz said. Her cause of death was ruled to be mechanical asphyxiation, and the manner of death was homicide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Investigators collected DNA evidence through a rape kit and analyzed it at the time, but no suspect was identified. The evidence was later retested as forensic genealogy techniques continued<\/a> to advance.<\/p>\n

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A rape kit was also collected in Bell\u2019s case.<\/p>\n

Cruz said Bell was abducted from the street and sexually assaulted by a man in a vehicle, who threatened to strangle her if she resisted.<\/p>\n

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She managed to escape after, authorities said, she seized a sharp object. Bell died in 2021.<\/p>\n

Cruz said investigators had known since 2016 that the cases were connected, but available DNA evidence did not identify a suspect until advances in forensic genetic<\/a> genealogy provided a breakthrough.<\/p>\n

“Their exhaustive investigative work, combined with a DNA sample match, identified<\/a> Robert Carey as the perpetrator,” Cruz said.<\/p>\n

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The district attorney\u2019s office said Othram, a Texas forensic genealogy lab<\/a>, identified a likely relative of the suspect, helping investigators ultimately identify Carey.<\/p>\n

Carey, who died of natural causes in June 2025 at 64, lived at the Brockton Veterans<\/a> Administration Medical Center, about 1.5 miles from both crime scenes, the district attorney\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

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“None of this would have been possible without the tremendous effort and devoted work of the Massachusetts State Police<\/a>, Brockton Police, the State Police Crime Lab, Trooper Joe Collett, Assistant District Attorneys Samantha Mullin and Jennifer Sprague, as well as Forensic Scientist Krista Lundgren,” Cruz said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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