A 65-year-old man from Massachusetts was arrested on Thursday for cold murder by a Boston woman in 1988, the Boston Police Department confirmed.
James Holloman was linked to the crime after DNA from his spit on a sidewalk outside his home last year matched DNA from the crime scene, Boston 25 News reported.
DNA from a possible suspect had been found under Karen Taylor’s fingernails and on a bloody sweatshirt and cigarette when she was found stabbed 15 times to her Roxbury home in May 1988.
Holloman’s paycheck was also reportedly found in her home.
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A 65-year-old Massachusetts man was arrested Thursday in the 1988 murder of a Boston-area woman, the Boston Police Department confirmed. (Boston Police Department)
“My understanding is that they took a DNA sample from the ground after he spat, and that’s how they claim to have matched all of this,” defense attorney Anthony Ellison told Boston 25.
Holloman was wanted on one kill order issued by Suffolk Superior Court for Taylor’s death while in the custody of the Boston Police Department’s Fugitive Unit.
He pleaded not guilty in court Friday, Boston 25 reported.
On May 27, 1988, Taylor’s 3-year-old daughter answered the phone when her grandmother called to say her mother was asleep and she couldn’t wake her, the station reported, citing the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office.
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Taylor’s mother later found her body in her home in a pool of her own blood.
Holloman pleaded not guilty in Suffolk Superior Court Friday. (Mass.gov)
“This is an example of outstanding investigative work by detectives and prosecutors using modern criminological science, but most of all, it is an opportunity for Karen Taylor’s loved ones to see someone answer for her death after so many years of unanswered questions,” Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden said, according to Boston 25.
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Holloman had previously claimed to officials that he had not seen Taylor for several weeks before her murder, but recently he allegedly admitted to seeing her the day before her death, the station reported.