BTW, expect this story to make the rounds today. Back in 2004, there was a murder of a Juilliard co-ed, Sarah Fox, that has gone unsolved. Now, the NYPD has announced that DNA taken from the crime scene is a match for DNA found on a chain used in an OWS-linked protest to lock open gates at a NYC subway station earlier this year.

Officials have linked forensic evidence from the 2004 murder scene of a 21-year-old Juilliard student to the scene of a recent Occupy Wall Street subway protest, NBC 4 New York has learned.

DNA evidence from the scene of Sarah Fox’s murder in Inwood Hill Park eight years ago has been connected to DNA from a chain left in a subway station by Occupy protesters in March, NBC 4 New York first reported Tuesday.

Fox was found nude and strangled in the park in May 2004, days after she disappeared during a daytime jog. Investigators recovered her pink CD player in the woods just yards from her body.

Sources said Tuesday the DNA found on the CD player matches DNA found on a chain left by Occupy Wall Street protesters at the Beverly Road subway station in East Flatbush on March 28, 2012.

The link between the two crimes opens up any number of possibilities:
1) someone from OWS was involved in the murder (the option the anti-OWS will latch onto);
2) someone involved in making, transporting, or selling the chain (think manufacturer, someone working at a store where the items were bought, etc.) was the murderer; or
3) someone unrelated to OWS touched the chains after OWS chained open the gates and was involved in the murder.

Unless they capture the person, there’s no way to know for sure, but it’s an important break in the murder case.