Juanita Boyd cold case solved after 40 years, La Porte County Sheriff's Office says

The La Porte County Sheriff's Office has officially closed the 46-year-old cold case murder of Juanita Boyd. Investigators utilized advanced DNA technology to identify Carl David Philips as the primary suspect in the 1981 killing. Boyd was found strangled and stabbed in her vehicle. Authorities confirmed that Philips, who died in 2017, would have faced murder charges had he been alive today. There was no known relationship between the victim and the perpetrator.