The Maryland suspect, identified as Forrest Clyde Williams III, had a sparse criminal record. He died of natural causes in 2018
Pamela Lynn Conyers’ parents reported her missing on Oct. 16, 1970, after the 16-year-old didn’t return home from running an errand at the mall that evening.
Four days later, her body was found strangled in a wooded area in Maryland’s Anne Arundel County. The family car she had been driving was found nearby a day earlier.
More than 50 years after the case went cold, the FBI and local police said they have found a suspect using the DNA gathered from the crime scene decades ago and investigative genetic genealogy to compare it with DNA available on public sites.