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DNA Links Student’s Slaying to ‘Occupy’ Protest

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Getty 071112 Chain?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1342036223080Comstock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — DNA found on a chain used by Occupy Wall Street protesters might lead New York police to new clues in the unsolved 2004 slaying of Julliard student Sarah Fox. DNA found on Fox’s CD player has been linked to DNA found on a chain the protesters used during a subway protest in March, sources told ABC News and its New York station WABC.

Fox, 21, was a student in the drama department of the renowned Julliard School. She had taken a temporary leave from the school when she disappeared May 19, 2004, after going out for a run in New York’s Inwood Hill Park.

Her body was found naked six days later, surrounded by tulip petals. She had been strangled. Fox’s CD player was later found in the area during a search for evidence. No arrest was ever made.

Now, DNA from the CD player has apparently been linked to DNA from a chain used during Occupy Wall Street protests on March 28, 2012.

Protesters wearing masks, hoods and gloves chained open the emergency gates to at least three subway stations in Manhattan and Brooklyn, according to Crime Stoppers. The suspects posted signs that said, “Customers ride for free.” They also taped over the metro-card readers so that they could not be used.

The DNA was found on the chain used at the Beverly Road subway station in East Flatbush. Sources said the DNA has not been linked to a specific person, and might not even belong to the protestors who chained the gates open.

No one was arrested for the subway protests. The NYPD had released surveillance video of the suspects chaining the gates.

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