One of New York’s biggest cold cases is a step closer to being solved – thanks to dogged detective work, and DNA from a 9/11 victim

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One of New York’s biggest cold cases is a step closer to being solved – thanks to dogged detective work, and DNA from a 9/11 victim

One of the NYPD’s oldest cold cases came together 21 years ago, on a frigid February morning in 2003, when construction workers digging through a Hell’s Kitchen basement were startled as a human skull rolled out before them. Through genetic testing that included DNA comparisons to a victim of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, police were able to identify the skull as that of a young woman killed back in 1969, nearly…