FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — DNA evidence has linked a suspected serial killer to the death of an eighth woman slain in 1984, police said.
The tests linked Eddie Lee Mosley to the rape and killing of 29-year-old Loretta Young Brown, police investigators said Friday.
DNA tests have previously linked Mosley to the deaths of five women, a teenager and a girl.
Mosley has not been charged with any of the killings because he has been involuntarily committed to psychiatric institutions since 1988, when he was found incompetent to stand trial in two of the murders.
Psychologists have said he is mentally retarded and mentally ill. He is to be re-examined this month.
Prosecutors began testing Mosley's DNA against several South Florida murders after tests linked him to the 1985 slaying of 8-year-old Shandra Whitehead.
He is suspected of slaying 16 women and young girls in the Fort Lauderdale area between 1973 and 1987.