CIGARETTE END REIGNITES ZAHIA SALEM'S 1989 MURDER

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A VICIOUS killer has been smoked out more than 20-years after he brutally raped and murdered an 87-year-old, thanks to DNA found on a cigarette end.
Back in 1989, Zahia Salem found on the couch of her Boston apartment with a black eye, broken ribs and bruises which indicated she had been sexually assaulted. 
But despite a high profile investigation at the time, the case went cold. 
Now more than two decades later a DNA sample collected from 66-year-old Charles Brook Jr, who is locked up for an unrelated rape conviction, 
has matched that found on a Newport cigarette butt in Salem's apartment.
Brook has denied the charges, but did admit to recognizing the old lady from a photo, as a woman he'd met in a Catholic thrift store and helped home, although he denied ever entering the premises.