Brenda Dupont was cut to death in 1988, and a St. Landry Parish jury viewed an Opelousas man liable of first-degree murder.
After Benda’s dead body was found in her loft years sooner, Jonell Rubin’s DNA was matched in 2012 to semen found on Dupont.
At the point when specialists got Rubin’s consent to take a DNA test, which was sent to the Louisiana State Police Crime Lab, he was a detainee in the city prison at that point.
What has been going on with Brenda Dupont? Brenda Dupont was wounded multiple times and killed in 1988 at her condo at the intersection of Railroad and Church Streets in Opelousas.
Because of the 2012 finding of DNA proof, Opelousas inhabitant Joenell Rubin was given a lifelong incarceration.
Rubin was captured for first-degree murder and bothered assault of the lady, who died at 29 years old when improved DNA testing uncovered that the semen found inside Dupont’s body matched Rubin’s DNA.
In 2012, Rubin was a detainee in the nearby prison when investigators got his consent to take a DNA test. A fantastic jury from St. Landry Parish arraigned him for first-degree murder instead of exasperated assault.
Following two days of declaration, during which the examiner, Don Richard, guaranteed Rubin had physically attacked Dupont before lethally cutting her, the case finished in a conviction.
Christopher Tate, a criminal pathologist, affirmed that Dupont had been cut multiple times. Rubin said he had never met Dupont or been to her condo while addressing Detective Dwain Grimmett.
Brenda Dupont Sister Linda Nicholas Testified: 1988 Murder Case Brenda Dupont was dwelling in a loft only a couple of feet right behind Linda Nicholas’ condo on May 21, 1988, as per declaration from the casualty’s sister Linda Nicholas.
Nicholas expressed that the respondent visited Nicholas’ girl Michelle the midday before her sister was killed. As indicated by Nicholas, she got into a battle with the respondent subsequent to finding that he had conveyed a blade into her home and ousted him.
Dupont’s sister asserted that she made breakfast the next morning and sent her six-year-old child to wake Dupont, however they couldn’t awaken.
At the point when there was still no reaction at 11:30 a.m., Nicholas became stressed and called the police, who tracked down Dupont’s body.
Brenda Dupont was hitched yet parted from her significant other, and Nicholas affirmed that she had not seen anybody enter or leave Brenda’s condo the evening of her demise.
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Joenell Rubin Accused Of Murdering Brenda Dupont In the 1988 cutting passing of Brenda Dupont, Joenell Rubin was sentenced liable for first-degree murder. Rubin’s DNA was matched in 2012 to semen gathered on Dupont when analysts found her dead in her loft years sooner.
Joenell Rubin, 45, was booked to be condemned on February 18, 2016, by State District Judge Alonzo Harris after his DNA was connected to semen found on Dupont in 2012.
The St. Landry Parish District Attorney’s Office, as per examiner Donald Richard, didn’t look for capital punishment for Rubin’s situation. He neglected to make sense of why the DA’s office didn’t consider capital punishment.
The Acadiana Crime Lab’s criminal pathologist Christopher Tate affirmed during a meeting on Tuesday that an examination performed on Dupont days after her homicide uncovered she had been wounded multiple times.
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