Parents of girl's 1987 death charged with murder in France
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A French prosecutor says the parents of a 4-year-old girl found dead three decades ago have been handed preliminary murder charges, in a cold case resurrected by DNA testing.
The unidentified girl's body was found in a ditch along the A10 freeway close to the city of Blois in central France in August 1987.
The girl, whose mutilated body had marks of long-term abuse, was known in France as the "little martyr of the A10." Blois prosecutor Frederic Chevallier said Thursday that a breakthrough was possible "because of the evolution of science and DNA."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The parents were identified and tracked by chance through their son's DNA that was tested for an unrelated 2016 case and matched him as the dead girl's brother in 2017.