"Police said that Generazio "committed a violent sexual assault against [Barbara] and put a bullet in the back of her head as she lay on the floor, tied up with the stockings she was wearing," according to authorities investigating the case with the FBI and Nassau County District Attorney's Office."
"Waldman was discovered dead inside of her home in Oceanside, located on Long Island, on January 11, 1974. She was 31 years old. The day of her murder, one of Waldman's sons found her fatally shot after he returned home from school. He had been in kindergarten at the time."
"Decades after the case went cold, investigative genetic genealogy has connected a suspect to the crime. A man named Thomas Generazio, who also lived in Oceanside, killed Waldman, DNA evidence has revealed. Thirty years after the murder, Generazio died at age 57 in 2004."
Barbara Waldman, a 31-year-old mother of three, was found murdered in her Oceanside, Long Island home on January 11, 1974. She was discovered bound with stockings around her neck and fatally shot. Her young son found her body after returning from kindergarten. The case remained unsolved for decades until investigative genetic genealogy connected Thomas Generazio, a sanitation worker who lived nearby, to the crime through DNA evidence. Generazio died in 2004 at age 57, before charges could be filed. Investigators worked with the FBI and Nassau County District Attorney's Office to establish the connection, revealing Generazio committed a violent sexual assault before killing Waldman.
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