By MARK SCOLFORO
Associated Press
LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) - The Pennsylvania man charged this week with strangling an elementary school teacher in 1992 had built a thriving business as a DJ that regularly put him in front of children. And it was at an elementary school gig that detectives surreptitiously recovered one of the key pieces of evidence they used make an arrest - his chewed gum.
Forty-nine-year-old Raymond Charles Rowe is being held without bail in the killing of 25-year-old Christy Mirack near Lancaster. It was a crime that had stymied investigators until genealogical research led them to the man best-known by his professional name, DJ Freez.
Last month, police sent an undercover team to a school where he was performing and grabbed his water bottle and chewed gum. Police said they matched DNA from those items to the crime scene.
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(Lancaster County District Attorney's Office via AP). This Monday, June 25, 2018, photo provided by the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office shows Raymond Charles Rowe, of Lancaster, Pa., a disc jockey arrested Monday and charged with criminal h...
(AP Photo/Mark Scolforo). Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman announces charges in a 1992 cold case killing during a news conference at the Lancaster County Courthouse in Lancaster, Pa., Monday, June 25, 2018. A family photo of the victim,...