Discarded cigarette butt, DNA tests solve 52-year-old Vermont murder

A key piece of evidence was a cigarette butt that had been found near Rita Curran's body. BURLINGTON, Vt. — A discarded cigarette found near the body of a 24-year-old Vermont school teacher in her apartment nearly 52 years ago helped lead investigators to an upstairs neighbor who they say strangled her after having a fight with his wife, police said Tuesday. The suspect, identified as William DeRoos, who was 31 at the time, had left his apartment that night for “a cool down walk.” After he returned he told...