DNA found on a smoothie straw links suspect to teen's 1984 killing
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On June 12, 1984, 15-year-old Kelly Morrissey vanished into the night. She left her home after dinner and never came back. Five months later, it was her friend Theresa Fusco. On Nov. …
On June 12, 1984, 15-year-old Kelly Morrissey vanished into the night. She left her home after dinner and never came back. Five months later, it was her friend Theresa Fusco. On Nov. 10, 1984, the 16-year-old left her job at Hot Skates, a popular roller rink never to be heard from again. Forty-one years ago, trying to find them was a different job. Police had to look for real footprints — not digital ones, and it was easy to vanish without a trace. 1984: Kelly Morrissey and Theresa Fusco go missing Kelly Morrissey and Theresa Fusco were growing up in the suburbs of Long Island. Vikki Papagno lived around the corner from Kelly in Massapequa. Vikki Papagno : She actually was the first person I ever smoked a cigarette with, was Kelly. Vikki Papagno : I was from a divorced family; she was from a divorced family. We connected that way … she was like my sister I never had. When they were in junior high, Kelly's family moved about 10 miles away to Lynbrook. By then, Kelly had made some new friends. Iris Olmstead : One of the first … people that she met when she moved to Lynbrook was Theresa Fusco. Kelly's mother Iris and her then-fiancé Paul Olmstead watched the friendship develop. Iris Olmstead : She was very good friends with Theresa. And, uh, so she — she made friends very easily. Lynbrook, New York, friends Kelly Morrissey, left, and Theresa Fusco, right, disappeared within five months of each other in 1984. …
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