Crime and Public Safety | Already on Florida’s Death Row, man pleads not guilty to 1998 Broward rape and murder

A Death Row inmate now accused of a decades-old rape and murder of a 41-year-old woman pleaded not guilty Tuesday morning.

Lucious Boyd, 64, was charged with first-degree murder and sexual battery after, deputies say, DNA evidence linked him to the 1998 murder of Eileen Truppner. He entered his plea in front of Broward Circuit Court Judge Peter Holden.

For years, Truppner was known as “Jane Doe,” with only the face of a police sketch. Detectives had no name, no suspect, no camera footage. The case turned cold. With the help of the forensic genealogy unit of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, DNA led to the first breakthrough in the case in May 2023 — Truppner’s name. Later that year, DNA, according to BSO, connected Truppner’s killing to Boyd.

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