MELBOURNE, Fla. – The man responsible for the 1988 murder of a 22-year-old Melbourne woman was charged with her murder Thursday, the Brevard County Sheriff's Office said.
Robert Edward Peek, 47,will be held under no bond after recent advances in DNA analysis recovered from cigarettes left at the scene linked him to the murder.
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On July 14, 1988, construction workers found the naked and beaten body of Ramona Lee Moore in a retention area just west of Melbourne. The retention area had filled with rain and the medical examiner later determined the cause of death to be a homicidal drowning.
Ramona Lee Moore
In 2011, the sheriff's office received a computer generated match in reference to a DNA profile from evidence at the murder scene. The DNA matched that of Peek.
Investigators interviewed Peek, who denied killing Moore, and provided more DNA samples that matched crime scene evidence.
On Thursday, agents charged Peek with Moore's murder. He was already being detained at the Brevard County Jail since January 16 in reference to two cases involving the trafficking of stolen property.