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A homeless man who was lured into giving a DNA sample by a Seattle detective's unusual ruse has been arrested in connection with one of Maine's oldest cold-case slayings.
Gary Sanford Raub, an original suspect in the 1976 slaying of Blanche M. Kimball in Augusta, Maine, was unwittingly tricked into providing a DNA sample by the undercover Seattle detective, according to court documents cited by a Maine newspaper.
The detective obtained the sample by asking Raub, 63, who now lives in Seattle, to participate in a "chewing gum survey," the Kennebec Journal reported. Exactly what the phony survey entailed wasn't immediately known.
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