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DNA Tested In Dentist's Killing; Reward Offered

POSTED: 5:16 pm EDT July 21, 2006
UPDATED: 5:55 pm EDT July 21, 2006

Three months after a young doctor was found slain in his Blairsville home, the killer has not been found.

On Friday, Dr. John Yelenic's family and friends offered a $10,000 reward for information -- and state police released new details about Yelenic's gruesome death.

"We are not going away and we are not going to stop," said Yelenic's cousin, Mary Anne Clark. "We will find out who did this."

Police said Yelenic struggled violently with someone he knew before he died at home in April. He bled to death, but police wouldn't say what caused the gashes on his body.

Blairsville Police Chief Donald Hess said he hopes the results of forensic evidence -- including DNA found at the scene -- will provide a lead.

"It was in very much detail gone over by forensic technicians, and that is some of the results we are hoping to have back soon," Hess said.

Yelenic was locked in a bitter separation with his estranged wife before he died. Even after the death, his family petitioned the court to finalize the divorce.


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