Daily Mail
August 23, 2015
A murder case which lay unsolved for the past 16 years has finally been unraveled thanks to DNA evidence found on a glove.
The 1999 murder of Helen Klocek, 84, from Plymouth Township looked as if it would remain an unsolved cold case due to a lack of evidence.
But it was cracked after investigators ran DNA tests on a glove that was left at the murder scene and matched the DNA to a convicted felon who was in jail and was set to be released imminently for another crime.
The DNA belonged to Nosakhare Onumonu, a four-time convicted felon who had prior convictions and lived close to where the elderly woman’s body was found.
Klocek was murdered after she left the Brothers Family Restaurant on March, 2 1999 and headed toward her Plymouth Township apartment.
Her body was found in an alley behind behind Calvary AME Zion Church on Detroit’s west side, according to The Detroit Free Press.
The widower had suffered a broken right collarbone, broken sternum, nine broken ribs and had defense wounds on her hands and arms.
The Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled that Klocek died of strangulation and blunt force trauma to the head and neck.