After more than six decades, authorities in Albany, New York, have identified the man they say raped, stabbed and bludgeoned to death a woman inside her home.

Officials linked DNA from Joseph Nowakowski, who died in 1998, to the killing of 50-year-old Catherine Blackburn in September 1964, Albany Police Chief Brendan Cox said during a news conference Wednesday.

The identification was made through a joint effort by the Criminal Investigation Resource Center at Russell Sage College and other forensic and investigative agencies, authorities said.

"There's no such thing as a cold case," Cox said, crediting people at the Criminal Investigation Resource Center for trying new technology and seeing what could be done differently. "There's all kind[s] of innovative things you can do with DNA."

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