BOISE, Idaho (CBS2) — A nearly 30-year-old cold case in Jerome, Idaho, has been solved.

In August of 1995, Jerome Police Officers responded to a homicide call on West Ave. Responding officers found 84-year-old Wilma Mobley. She had been strangled to death after she was attacked with an axe.

Investigators combed through the gruesome scene, and eventually they identified three possible suspects. No concrete evidence pointed to the killer though, and eventually the case went cold.

Different detectives worked the case throughout the years, often reviewing it again with fresh eyes after there were advancements in technology and DNA testing. Nothing came from those developments, until June 2022.

Sergeant Clinton Wagner picked up the case, the last in a line of detectives assigned to look at it with "fresh eyes." Wagner contacted the Idaho State Police Forensic Lab to see if the case could be submitted for DNA analysis. DNA testing has grown immensely over the years.

Evidence that was collected from the scene, which had been kept safe all these long years, was sent to the lab for testing in March 2023. Finally, on Monday, the Idaho State Police reported their findings. They had identified the prime suspect in the gruesome killing, Danny lee Kennison.

Kennison was neighbors with the victim, though there was no known personal relationship between the two. Lab Technicians found "A significant amount of DNA profile matching Danny Lee Kennison on a clasp of the victim's underclothing."

Kennison committed suicide at his residence in Filer, Idaho in March 2001.

The amount of Kennison's DNA found at the scene, and no other DNA profiles being present, the Jerome Police Department are closing the case. The surviving family members of Wilma Mobley were notified of the discovery and the closing of the investigation prior to the public release.

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