Charleston police Sgt. Bobby Eggleton stands on the side of U.S. 119 just outside Walton, Roane County, where police found Terry Clark's body in 1999. A DNA match through a national database has led police to her possible killer, more than 13 years after the crime was committed.<\/p>\n
WALTON,W.Va. -- A few snowflakes rode on the breeze as Sgt. Bobby Eggleton walked across a grassy spot beside U.S. 119 south of Spencer. It was quiet, except for the hum of an occasional passing car. <\/p>\n
Thirteen years earlier, the lifeless body of a woman lay sprawled in this grass -- naked and with the telltale marks of strangulation ringing her neck. <\/p>\n
Eggleton stopped in the center of the wide spot by the road: \"This is where we found her,\" the Charleston police officer said. <\/p>\n
The woman's name was Terry Clark. She was 41 and lived in Charleston. Her killing went unsolved, and the trail turned cold. <\/p>\n
In spring 2000, Charleston Lt. S.A. Cooper, a detective at the time, said, \"We are confident -- because of the evidence we have in place -- that we may be one tip away from solving this crime.\" <\/p>\n
But that tip never came . . . until now. <\/p>\n
'She was someone we took sympathy on ' <\/p>\n
It was Memorial Day weekend 1999 when city detectives got an early morning call that said the body that had been found in Roane County was Clark, a Charleston resident. <\/p>\n
Clark's neck was covered in marks from being strangled with a cord, and there was a wound on the back of her head from a blunt object. <\/p>\n
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