Lucille Johnson Case Summary

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Toys left by a killer’s 5 year old son help solve a 23 year old mystery in suburban Utah after fingerprints are collected in 2014. Lucille Johnson, a 78 year old grandmother was strangled and beaten to death. It was shows that she suffered severe trauma to her head. This all happened inside her mobile home in 1991. Family members told police Johnson would not leave her grandsons legos lying around the house, just as they suspiciously were. This caused the police to collect the legos as evidence and test them fro fingerprints to find potential evidence towards the case. The son who killed his mother was 5 years old the last time he had touched those legos and played with them. For over 30 years, the legos remained fingerprinted. Along with the

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