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An 81-year-old man admitted to sexually assaulting and killing American tourist Amy Lopez in Koblenz in 1994 as his murder trial opened; prosecutors say he killed to satisfy sexual urges, DNA linked him, and the decades-old case is headed toward a September verdict.
German police arrested an 81-year-old man in Koblenz for the 1994 murder and sexual assault of American student Amy Lopez after advances in DNA technology and re-examining evidence led to a match between a saliva sample and DNA found in Lopez's jeans. The suspect had a prior 1999 conviction for attempted rape; his genetic data, once deleted, was re-accessed to secure the arrest, and he is now in pretrial detention as investigators continue the case decades after the crime.