Man convicted of 1986 murder of TV station employee
By The Associated Press
Posted 8:10AM on Wednesday, October 12, 2005
<p>A 50-year-old Atlanta man has has been sentenced to two life terms in prison for an October 1986 murder after being identified by a cold-case squad through DNA evidence, District Attorney Paul Howard said Wednesday.</p><p>Richard Hambrick was found guilty of murder, felony murder, rape, and burglary in the slaying of 37-year-old Clydine Dallas, an employee of WSB-TV in Atlanta, Howard said.</p><p>Dallas was raped and strangled with bed sheets in her apartment.</p><p>A year ago, the Multi-Agency Cold Case Squad located swabs from an autopsy and turned them over to a private lab in Texas for processing, Howard said.</p><p>The lab developed a profile of a DNA from the swabs, and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab indexed the profile and identified Hambrick, a known offender, as the attacker, the prosecutor said.</p><p>Hambrick was arrested in December.</p>