

DNA points to dead suspect in Vic murder

Bloody marks found on the ankle of a murdered Melbourne mum point to a violent thief who was killed months later during a vicious burglary.
Frankston woman Traci O'Sullivan, 42, was found dead in her home after being beaten and stabbed in February 2015.
Her body was discovered by her ex-partner and their young son, and the killer has never been caught.
But on Tuesday the Victorian Coroners Court was told convicted criminal Adam Slomczewski's DNA was found on Ms O'Sullivan and across the crime scene.
The violent burglar and drug user died 10 months after the murder as he continued his criminal ways.
Slomczewski attacked and choked a woman at her Cassia Grove home in December 2015.
According to an inquest into his death, a neighbour heard "blood curdling screams", stepped in and a violent struggle ensued.

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At one point Slomczewski started choking the neighbour, but released his grip when the good Samaritan jabbed him in the eye.
Eventually the neighbour was able to put Slomczewski into a "sleeper hold" which caused him to go limp and later die.
The 44-year-old suffered "cardiac arrhythmia" during a struggle which involved neck compression and amphetamine use, a coroner found in 2017.
He was found to have a cocktail of drugs in his system at the time.
Ms O'Sullivan knew Slomczewski because she had previously sold him drugs.
Bloody finger marks found on her body matched his DNA which was also found on her palm and upper arm as well as door handles and her back fence.
While the forensic evidence points to Slomczewski as the prime suspect, police stopped short of labelling him the killer due to errors in the forensic testing.
Days after Ms O'Sullivan's death, Slomczewski picked up his brother and showed him a "significant amount" of drugs in bags with a red back spider and red on them, the court was told.
This matches bags of drugs found at the murder scene.
Ms O'Sullivan's sisters, Michelle and Sharleen, were in court on Tuesday to hear the summary inquest.
The murdered mum was "devoted" to her son and father but her drug use led to a decline in her mental health, Michelle O'Sullivan told coroner Simon McGregor.
"She made some choices in her life that took her on a path that ended in her death," she said.
The death was a homicide but there was "insufficient evidence" to the standard that was required to identify and name a person responsible, Mr McGregor said.
"He (Slomczewski) was the most likely suspect that we found, but not sufficiently likely for him to be named by me as a person to have caused the death."
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