Cold case: Slain Connecticut teen identified as Patricia Newsom after nearly 50 years

Police have identified a teenage girl nearly 50 years after her body was found bound, gagged, wrapped in a tarp and dumped in a drainage ditch in Connecticut, officials said Monday. Investigators never gave up on identifying the Jane Doe, who was found in East Haven on Aug. 16, 1975, they said at a press conference. Without any identification, officers hit a block, but they continued their investigation into her asphyxiation death. In 2022, they exhumed her body from where it was buried in nearby Hamden and took a DNA...