[HIGHLIGHTS] “Cold Case” in Oregon: Murderer convicted 44 years after the crime – thanks to a piece of chewing gum

Robert Plympton, now 60, was convicted of murdering 19-year-old Barbara Tucker in 1980. DNA profile from swabbed private parts of Tucker's body found perpetrator's DNA in 2000.

DNA company created family trees of people who had parts of the perpetrator'sDNA. genealogist followed redheads in the family trees and came across Plympton in Troutdale, Oregon. "We will appeal the verdict and we are confident that the verdict will be overturned," his lawyers, Stephen and Jacob Houze, said.