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'Crew Cut Killer': Oakland teen girl killed in 1969 cold case identified, suspect named

Police have identified Taylor Morris Teaford, known colloquially as the "Crew Cut Killer," as a potential suspect in the 1969 murder of a 16-year-old girl found strangled inside a downtown Oakland hotel, who has now been identified decades later as Joann Yvonne Burdick.

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