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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) A cold case that started in 1974 about who murdered a twenty-three-year-old woman at that time has been solved by a Beaver County detective. Patrick Young used genealogy earlier in 2025 to identify the killer of Annette Tokarz, who was the victim of a homicide that happened on March 6th, 1974 at Hopewell Community Park. Detectives have confidence to name a former boyfriend of Tokarz, Walton Sims, as the one who killed her. According to Young, the DNA match for Sims was “99.7%” for an identification through the genealogy test.