On December 12, 2003, 88 -year -old Adena Shaburt, a motor vehicle worker and a widow’s retired department, was beaten at the house where she lived alone in the Long Island Hamlet on the North Bay coast, entered New York’s neighbor’s house and them. Find out. His body was looked at the door in front of him. A window was scattered and papers were flared in the air outside his house.
For more than two decades, the matter has not been resolved, even in 2023, a retired spy, who was killed in the murder, has yet to emphasize that the evidence taken from the scene is new to re -examine. Use technology. At a news conference on Friday, the office of the Safulk County District Attorney said that now, after the use of high depressaf photography, a man has been accused of murdering Ms. Shaburt.
The District Attorney’s Office said that Raul Ala, 51, of Talu, Ga,, was a neighbor of Ms Shaburt and was 29 years old at the time of the murder. According to a crime in the Safulk County court, Mr Ala, who was presented on Friday for the first and second degree murder, was trying to rob Ms Shaburt.
According to the District Attorney’s Office, if the most serious allegations are sentenced, he may be sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
Mr. Ala’s lawyer, Christopher M. Geo, In an email, his client has requested not to be guilty and maintained his innocence.
Law enforcement officers arrested Mr Ala on January 16 after a month -long investigation, in which spies used high defense photography to identify the fingerprint more clearly in the window photo in 2003 Mr Ala, who says, entered the house of Safulk County District. Attorney, Ray Tarney, said News Conference.
He said that the Safulk County Police Department started monitoring Mr Ala in August 2024 and Mr Ala with DNA samples taken from Lottery Scratch off cards and plastic bottles with DNA samples taken from DNA samples. What was similar to that of Mr. Alala was rejected.
“As investigators, some cases stay with you,” said Mr Terneney. Although Ms. Shaburt had no children, she was “a grandmother for every child in her neighborhood,” Mr Terneney added that she would often feed her breakfast and help her in mathematics homework.
Mr Terney said that on the occasion of her death, Ms Shaburt’s neighbors had taken her food and coffee the next morning, adding: “Edna searched for her. She searched for Edina.
He said he was not convinced that there was a “specific relationship” between Ms. Shaburt and Mr Ala, which he said was not a job at the time of murder.
The District Attorney’s Office said that retired spy Paskol Alburgo, who called for a re -examination of the case, could not find any further information or comment on the matter because they could be called as a witness. The office said that other people involved in the investigation, including a fingerprint expert, who linked Mr Ala’s thumb print to the scene, could be called witnesses and they could not comment.
Ms Shaburt’s relatives could not immediately comment on Monday evening.
