40 years after 16yo was murdered, her dad’s hope finally wins as Walmart worker falls for investigators trap

A grisly murder that turned into a 40-year-old cold case has finally met its conclusion after police were able to source DNA from the suspect’s trash. Now, 63-year-old Richard Bilodeau is being arraigned in court for a crime investigators believe he committed in 1984.

There’s a saying common among those who practice law: delayed justice is denied justice. So, you’d be mistaken to think that the late Theresa Fusco’s family would be cynical about it taking half a lifetime to bring Bilodeau to book. But according to New York Post her father, Thomas Fusco, was actually quite welcoming of the long-awaited resolution, saying, “I never gave up hope. I always had faith in the system.”