A cold case murder in Wood County has reportedly been solved with DNA.
Wood County Prosecuting Attorney Paul Dobson announced that on Wednesday, the county grand jury returned several indictments on Samuel William Legg III, in connection with the homicide of Victoria Jane Collins.
Collins was found murdered on Dec. 20, 1996, behind the Union 76 truck stop in Lake Township. The case was investigated by the Lake Township Police Department, with assistance from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Wood County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.
Legg’s DNA was linked to Collin’s homicide as well as two other homicides in Mahoning County, Ohio, and Lake County, Illinois. Legg is currently in custody in Ohio, where he is under indictment in Medina County and Mahoning County.
Legg was indicted by the Wood County Grand Jury for two counts of aggravated murder, rape and kidnapping.
