An Oregon man has been convicted of murder in the 1978 death of a teenage girl in Alaska, in a case investigators made using genetic genealogy decades later. Sixty-seven-year-old Donald McQuade was convicted this week in state court in Anchorage of murder in the death of Shelley Connolly. The teenager was found dead near a highway pullout between Anchorage and Girdwood. Alaska Public Media reports that sentencing for McQuade is set for April 26. McQuade was arrested in 2019 but his trial, like others at the time, was delayed because of the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
