Lena Bruce Murder Trial In Suffolk Superior Court

BOSTON, MA - NOVEMBER 29: James Witkowski looks on during his murder trial at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston on Nov. 29, 2017. Witkowski is accused of killing Lena Bruce, a graduate of Tufts University who had recently landed a job at an engineering firm and was living with a college friend at 694 Massachusetts Ave. in the citys South End, in 1992. Witkowski, who was 19 then but is now 45, lived at a nearby homeless shelter and spent his days drinking at a park, prosecutor Patrick Haggan said during his opening statement. For decades, Haggan said, Bruces killing went unsolved, in part because there were no eyewitnesses. There was no reason to connect the homeless man and the successful young graduate not until Witkowski's DNA was matched to samples taken from Bruce's body a few years ago, when Witkowski had to provide his DNA to authorities after an unrelated conviction. (Photo by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)