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VIDEO: Police Use DNA to Sketch Suspect in April Tinsley Case

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WOWO): Police have a new composite sketch of the person of interest in a 1988 murder case in Fort Wayne.

For the last 27 years the death of 8-year-old April Tinsley has gone unsolved, but Fort Wayne police have new DNA software that has produced an accurate sketch of the suspect with a 98 percent confidence rate.

According to our Partners in news at 21Alive, April's body was found in a ditch in DeKalb County and police have received 800 tips on a suspect.

If the suspect is still alive, police have a better idea of what the 70-year-old man would look like.  

On Tuesday night, NBC Nightly News featured the company that used collected DNA to composite the sketch:  

To see more on the new DNA system, click HERE.

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