Overview

• Prosecutors charged 63-year-old Richard Bilodeau with second-degree murder in the 1984 slaying of 16-year-old Theresa Fusco in Lynbrook, New York.
• Bilodeau pleaded not guilty at his arraignment, was ordered held without bail, and is due back in Nassau County court on Nov. 21.
• Authorities say high-tech FBI testing matched DNA from a decades-old vaginal swab to Bilodeau, leading investigators to locate him at his overnight job at a Suffolk County Walmart.
• The case previously saw three men convicted in 1986 who were cleared by DNA evidence in 2003 and later awarded $43 million for wrongful prosecution.
• Fusco’s body was discovered weeks after she disappeared, and police reported evidence of strangulation, sexual assault, and beating.