Courtesy Newport Beach Police Department.
Authorities will release details Wednesday on the arrest of a suspect in the 1973 killing of an 11-year-old girl in Newport Beach.
Orange County prosecutors and Newport Beach police declined to divulge details prior to a news conference Wednesday morning.
According to sources and news reports out of Colorado Springs, Colorado, the suspect is accused of killing Linda Ann O’Keefe, who lived in Corona del Mar. She was last seen alive walking home from summer school on July 6, 1973, and her body was recovered the following morning in the Back Bay area.
Newport Beach police in July mounted a Twitter campaign releasing information about the killing to try to spur new leads.
The tweets detailing the last hours of Linda’s life included photographs from the crime scene and a newly created “snapshot” of the suspect that was put together by scientists at Parabon NanoLabs. The tweets concluded with a video that included interviews with the detectives who have worked on finding the girl’s killer through the years.
Newport Beach police last year hired Parabon, a Virginia-based DNA technology company specializing in a process using genetic material, to build a sort of composite sketch of a suspect at 25 years old and how the killer might look Wednesday.
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