ABSTRACT
In 1979, in Denver, Colorado, Bonita Raye Morgan’s murderer strangled the petite 27-year-old, threw her out of a hotel window into an alley, and then set her body on —re. še alleged killer (now deceased) was arrested, then freed by a district attorney for lack of evidence. At the time, Bonita’s sister, Sharron Bullis, and other family members were informed of the suspect’s bloody shoelaces and additional evidence collected by police at the scene. šree decades later, in 2009, Bullis contacted the Denver Police Department to ask if new technology, speci—cally DNA, could —nally identify her sister’s killer.
