Police: DNA determines 1972 killer of Indiana student
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Police say a man just identified as the killer of an Indiana State University student in 1972 was killed in a shootout with police six years later.
Terre Haute police chief Shawn Keen said Monday that a DNA sample from a son of Jeffrey Lynn Hand was used to connect him to the killing of 19-year-old Pamela Milam.
Milam's body was found in the trunk of her car on Sept. 1, 1972. She had been bound and gagged. An autopsy determined she died of strangulation.
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Keen says Hand, then 23, didn't live in the Terre Haute area but made deliveries for a record company and likely cruised the Indiana State University campus when work brought him to the city.
Keen says Hand died in 1978 in a shootout with police during an attempted abduction elsewhere in Indiana.
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This story has been corrected to show Keen spoke Monday, not Tuesday.