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Police in San Francisco say they arrested a 76-year-old man and charged him with murder for the 1978 strangling death of Marissa Rolf Harvey, a New York City
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- Police in San Francisco say they arrested a 76-year-old man and charged him with murder for the 1978 strangling death of Marissa Rolf Harvey, a New York City teen who was found dead after visiting Golden Gate Park.
- Mark Stanley Personette, of Conifer, Colorado, was arrested Dec. 16 and is awaiting trial at Jefferson County Jail in Colorado for one count of homicide, according to a San Francisco Police Department statement Sunday.
- San Francisco Police Dept.
- The 15-year-old Harvey traveled from New York to visit family in San Francisco in 1978, but disappeared during a March 27 visit to Golden Gate Park, SFPD said.
- Her body was found the next day with signs of strangulation in nearby Sutro Heights Park, but the case soon went cold, SFPD said.