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Incident
Victim found
Diane Ayres was found dead in Balboa Park.
Diane Ayres Balboa Park cold case
A 1999 homicide investigation moved to an arrest after detectives reexamined forensic evidence.
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Break
Forensics reexamined
Cold-case investigators revisited evidence from the original case.
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Current
Arrest and extradition
A suspect was arrested in Georgia and returned to San Diego.
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AI editorial reconstructionSan Diego police say renewed testing led investigators to a suspect in the strangulation death of 23-year-old Diane Ayres.
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