The Columbus Dispatch

Police hope DNA will help them identify burglar

- Bbruner@dispatch.com @bethany_bruner

of the master bedroom.

Detectives found droplets of blood and a broken window in the master bathroom, as well as a tissue on the floor and a paper towel soaked with blood and water on the vanity.

Detectives met with the woman and her boyfriend and the woman denied being at the home.

The boyfriend did tell police one of the types of alcohol found in the home was the couple’s favorite.

Detectives obtained a search warrant for a sample of the woman’s DNA to compare to the urine stain, the blood and the containers of alcohol.

No charges have been filed. lodge in Reynoldsbu­rg on Oct. 16 is part of an ongoing investigat­ion into illegal gambling there.

According to court records, agents with the Ohio Investigat­ive Unit, a part of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, had gone to the FOE Lodge on Brice Road in Reynoldsbu­rg on multiple occasions within the last month.

While at the lodge, the agents played slot machines, receiving cash payouts of between $24 and $56.

Ohio law does not allow for cash payouts of more than $10.

Five electronic gambling machines were seized, as well as printouts and cash. occurred nearly 34 years ago has a new trial date after his case was delayed by the revelation that some DNA testing was overlooked.

Douglas E. Krumlauf, 64, is now scheduled for trial on Jan. 7 in Franklin County Common Pleas Court in the shooting death of Sharla Spangler, who was 24 when her body was found in a Northeast Side parking lot on Jan. 30, 1985.

Jury selection was scheduled to begin on Oct. 9, but prosecutor­s learned that day that a certain type of DNA testing hadn’t been done by the state crime lab, according to Dispatch courts reporter John Futty.

The new test results are complete, but neither side is saying what they reveal.

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