Man convicted in 1979 double murder charged in 1997 strangulation - Chicago Sun-Times
26, 1997, by her 19-year-old daughter and the daughter’s boyfriend, Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Barry Quinn said Thursday. The 39-year-old, a drug user, had been dead for several hours when she was found in her second-floor apartment in Austin, Quinn said. Linton’s then 12-year-old daughter had seen Borgie Humphrey doing drugs with her mother in the apartment, in the 100 block of North Pine Avenue, shortly before the murder, Quinn said. When detectives recently showed the now adult woman a picture of 56-year-old Humphrey, she identified him as being the man who had been snorting drugs in the living room, Quinn said. Hair and fingernail samples had been taken of Linton in 1997. No suitable fingerprints were found on two pieces of a condom wrapper that were sent to the Illinois State Police crime lab. The case was re-opened last year when detectives resent the evidence to the crime lab due to advancements in DNA analysis and testing, Quinn said. The DNA matched Humphrey’s sample stored in the database, Quinn said. A partial DNA profile taken from the condom wrapper also matched Humphrey’s, Quinn said. Source: chicago.suntimes.com
