HAUPPAUGE, Long Island (WABC) -- Suffolk County prosecutors have announced a major break in a cold case from nearly 30 years ago.

Two cold cases, a murder and a rape, are now tied to the same person, from West Islip, through advanced DNA testing.

The family of the 69-year-old victim, Ann Lustig, who was sexually assaulted and killed, was on hand for the announcement on Monday.

Immense grief rushes back 29 years later for the two children and grandson of Lustig.

"Ann was a beautiful person that navigated an ugly world and met a horrible end," said Lustig's grandson.

Suffolk County prosecutors say Lustig was waiting for a taxi outside of Kings Park State Psychiatric Hospital in February of 1997, when she was picked up, raped, beaten and killed.

Her body was found a day later off of Ro

See Full Page