The Clark County Sheriff's Office was able to use DNA breakthroughs to solve a 1962 double homicide. Both suspects are deceased.

The breakthrough concerns the 1962 murders of Charles Hale, 71, and Lester McCollum, 67, near Battle Ground, Washington.

The long-awaited development in the case was jointly announced Oct. 6 by Attorney General Peter F. Neronha and Newport Police Chief Ryan Duffy.

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DNA evidence linked the 1962 killings to Barton Stebbins and Walter Stain, both teens at the time. Stebbins died just days before investigators went to arrest him.