GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) -- A homicide cold case from 2023 was solved this week after a DNA match led Greenville County Sheriff's Office Investigators to a suspect.

57-year-old Janet Abrilz's body was discovered in Lakeside Park on August 27, 2023, by a person on a walking trail, according to investigators.

Greenville County Sheriff Hobert Lewis said it wasn't until DNA evidence entered into the sex offender's registry that linked 49-year-old Robert Vorhees to the crime.

"There was some DNA found and that was sent in and put into evidence," Lewis said. "This occurred in the wooded area of the park, where there was no foot traffic. Nobody was really around, nobody saw anything suspicious, no camera footage that we could review to see."

Sheriff Lewis said Abrilz died of blunt force

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