Forensic Lab IDs 7th Victim of Milwaukee Serial Killer

A seventh victim has been linked to the case of Milwaukee's 23-year-old unsolved serial killer who is known as the North Side Strangler.

The Milwaukee Police Department's crime lab has tied the unknown suspect's DNA to prostitute Florence McCormick, who was found dead in April 1995 around the same North Side neighborhood where other victims were found since 1986.

Like most of the other victims, McCormick was an African-American prostitute, whose body was found in a vacant house. The last murder happened in 2007.

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Tags: Cold Cases, DNA Evidence, Milwaukee PD, Serial Killers

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