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A woman was raped in a Pinellas gift shop in 1988. Familial DNA now has led to an arrest.

This is the second Pinellas rape in a month that authorities have solved using genealogy.
 
 
 
Larry Eugene Gould, 54, is facing a charge of armed sexual battery after Pinellas County Sheriff's detectives linked him to a 1988 rape.
Larry Eugene Gould, 54, is facing a charge of armed sexual battery after Pinellas County Sheriff's detectives linked him to a 1988 rape. [ Pinellas County Sheriff's Office ]
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