Nearly three decades after a nurse was raped and killed at the former Prince George’s County Medical Center in Cheverly, Maryland, police said the case has been solved.

Prince George’s County police said Monday a man named Edward Watts is responsible for the 1998 killing of Sherry Crandell , a 50-year-old mother of three from Bowie.

Crandell was found dead in her fourth-floor office at the hospital on Jan. 13, 1998. Police said she had been tied up, raped and choked to death.

Watts died in 2019, police said. He was known as Baari Shabazz at the time of his death, police Chief George Nader said during a news conference Monday.

Investigators said DNA evidence left at the scene ultimately led them to Watts. A breakthrough came after a match was found through a genealogy website, which p

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