Long-cold case shattered as DNA links suspect to savage attack, killing of young woman, investigators say

A Georgia antheral has been arrested successful transportation with the decades-old acold lawsuit of the rape and execution of a young pistillate implicit 40 years ago, authorities announced.  

Freddie Lee Granger Jr., 68, is charged with 1 number of rape, malice murder, aggravated battle and 2 counts of felony execution stemming from the decease of Sandra Kaye Davis, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI).

Davis was conscionable 22 years aged erstwhile authorities with the Waycross Police Department discovered her assemblage adjacent to a location connected Kollock Street successful Waycross connected Sept. 1, 1984, officials said. 

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Sandra Kaye Davis was conscionable 22 years aged erstwhile authorities with the Waycross Police Department discovered her assemblage adjacent to a location connected Kollock Street successful Waycross, Georgia connected Sept. 1, 1984, officials said. (GBI)

Authorities yet determined Davis had been strangled to death.

Following the discovery, section officials requested that GBI assistance with investigating the case. 

The lawsuit yet ran acold for respective decades arsenic authorities continued to investigate.

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Freddie Lee Granger Jr., 68, was booked into the Ware County Jail connected charges of 1 number of rape, malice murder, aggravated battle and 2 counts of felony execution stemming from the decease of Sandra Kaye Davis, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI). (Google Maps)

Nearly 42 years later, DNA exertion linked Granger to Davis’ alleged killing, officials said. 

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Investigators with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation linked Freddie Lee Granger Jr. to Sandra Kaye Davis’ execution utilizing DNA technology, according to officials. (Google Maps)

Granger was subsequently located and taken into custody connected March 31, according to GBI.

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He was aboriginal booked into the Ware County Jail, authorities said. 

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The Waycross Police Department, Ware County Sheriff’s Office, Georgia Department of Community Supervision, and GBI’s Cold Case Unit assisted the GBI Regional Investigative Office successful some the probe and apprehension of Granger.

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The probe remains ongoing, with authorities asking anyone with accusation to interaction the GBI Regional Investigative Office astatine 912-389-401 oregon taxable a extremity online. 

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