Quincy Cook
Thursday, March 26, 2020 | 7 p.m.
More than a decade after a man turned up dead, strangled and beat to death, DNA evidence led detectives to his alleged killer, according to Metro Police.
Richard Cline's 2008 slaying had gone unsolved, its leads exhausted, until cold case investigators took another look and got a hit after they resubmitted DNA for testing in November.
The results gave them a name: Quincy Cook, 44. The suspect, who was already being held at the Clark County Detention Center on unrelated charges, was rebooked Tuesday on one count each of murder and burglary, jail logs show.
Detectives were dispatched to a suspicious death call on Dec. 19, 2008, in the 5800 block of West Harmon Avenue, near Jones Boulevard, police said.
Eight days later, an autopsy and investigation confirmed that the death had in fact been a homicide: Cline had struggled with someone, that his neck was compressed and that he'd suffered "blunt force trauma."
Cook is scheduled to appear in court Friday morning.
