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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (ClickOrlando) – Orange County deputies believe they have solved a 25-year-old using DNA evidence taken from a discarded beer can.
Kenneth Stough Jr., 54, was arrested Tuesday, accused in the stabbing of a convenience store clerk in February of 1996.
Deputies were called to a Lil’ Champ mini-mart before 7 a.m. on Feb. 3, 1996. A man was driving by the store & saw that the lights were out, which was unusual as the store was typically open at that time. He then called the sheriff’s office.
When deputies made their way inside, they found Terrence Paquette in the bathroom, dead with 73 stab wounds.
Deputies said there was a large amount of blood in the bathroom & around the store. Samples were collected & investigators determined not all of the blood was Paquette’s.
Detectives could not identify who the second blood samples had come from & the case went cold before being reopened in 2003.
In March 2021, detectives submitted the unknown blood sample to a genealogy database & found that the blood belonged to someone who was related to Kenneth Stough Sr. & Carol Ann Crawford.
Deputies said they discovered that they had 3 sons. They found that Stough Jr. had lived across the street from the victim around the time of the murder.
Detectives said they found Stough Jr. & began surveillance. Investigators saw him throw out a bag of empty beer cans in a public dumpster. The cans were retrieved & Stough Jr.’s DNA was retrieved from the discarded cans & came back as a match for the unknown blood sample.
Stough Jr. faces charges of first-degree murder with a weapon & robbery with a deadly weapon.
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