NEW YORK, NY – Detectives with the New York City Police Department have arrested a man in connection with a nearly thirty-year-old murder cold case.
64-year-old Larry Atkinson strangled and killed two women inside an apartment at 550 West 125th Street in 1994.
Police arrived at the location on a cold February morning to find two women unresponsive and unconscious in a bedroom inside the apartment.
They were identified as Sara Roberts, 57, and her daughter Sharon Roberts, 27. Both women resided in the apartment.
Police used DNA evidence, including toenails and cigarette butts, to connect Atkinson to the murders. At the time, Atkinson was dating a woman who worked as a home healthcare worker for the daughter, Sharon Roberts, who was a developmentally disabled woman.
Atkinson was taken by FDNY EMTs from his West 112th Street apartment in a wheelchair, wearing an oxygen mask.
He was charged with two counts of murder.