Overview

• Investigators have identified a second suspect, Donald Willard, in the 1970 murder of Maryland teen Pamela Lynn Conyers using forensic genetic genealogy and traditional investigative methods.
• The first suspect, Forrest Clyde Williams III, was identified last year through DNA evidence.
• Both suspects, Willard and Williams, have died and were never charged for the murder of Conyers.
• The murder of Pamela Lynn Conyers remains unsolved, and authorities are seeking public assistance to fill in missing information and determine if the suspects were involved in other crimes.
• Investigators used publicly accessible databases and conducted interviews with potential relatives of the suspects to identify them.