Nearly 40 years after a woman’s body was found in a then-remote area of Davie, the man suspected in her murder has been identified by just a few small strands of evidence left behind.

A driver on Flamingo Road found the body of Marilyn Decker, 28, floating in a canal on the morning of Oct. 22, 1987.

She had been killed somewhere else at least a few days earlier before her body was left in the water in a plastic bag, according to a Fort Lauderdale News report from the time.

Davie Police announced Tuesday that recent DNA testing of several human hairs found inside and on Decker’s shirt and a towel found at the scene matched that of Donald Lawless, a man originally from Ohio who lived in Davie and other parts of Florida between the early 1980s through 1993. Though the Broward State Attorne

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