By Larry Altman,The Daily Breeze <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
TORRANCE, Calif. - Kevin T. Kemp's blood sample sat in a coroner's office refrigerator, pretty much forgotten. <\/p>\n
But 23 years after the fluid was drawn from Kemp's dead body, Torrance police have used the sample to solve a murder in Venice that was long ago put on the \"cold case\" shelf. <\/p>\n
Discovering the blood in April, detectives and Sheriff's Department crime lab officials examined the sample to determine its DNA code to see if it matched any other crimes. <\/p>\n
Kemp's DNA revealed that he killed a man in Venice in 1990, just three weeks before a Torrance woman shot him to death when he attacked her in front of her home, Torrance police Sgt. Robert Watt said. <\/p>\n
Kemp's blood matched the forensic evidence found on the Venice victim's body, allowing Los Angeles police detectives to close another case, Torrance police Sgt. Robert Watt said. <\/p>\n
The 33-year-old Hawthorne man died Sept. 8, 1990, shortly after he ambushed the 28-year-old woman in an apparent attempt to rape her. <\/p>\n
Police at the time said Kemp randomly attacked the woman in her driveway, wrapping a canvas strap around her neck. He tried to drag her toward his car, but she fought back. <\/p>\n
Kicking and screaming as she scraped along the ground with the strap tugging at her neck, the woman reached into her purse, where a .22-caliber handgun was concealed inside. <\/p>\n
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