Major break in Long Island cold case murder, rape of elderly psych patients — but there’s bad news for families seeking justice: DA

DNA

High-tech DNA testing has solved two gruesome crimes that have baffled investigators for nearly three decades — the murder and rape of two elderly Long Island psychiatric patients, prosecutors said. Steven Briecke, a career criminal whose rap sheet includes the sex assault of a teenager and a string of public lewdness busts, was identified as the monster who murdered 69-year-old Ann Lustig in 1997 and raped an 82-year-old psychiatric patient in 1996, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s

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