SPOKANE, Wash. - Spokane police have identified the man they believed raped and murdered a 9-year-old girl in 1959.In a Friday news release, police said the killer was John Reigh Hoff after using DNA technology to match a sample found on the little girl’s clothing.
They believed he was 20 years old at the time he committed the crimes. Hoff committed suicide at the age of 31 in 1970.Authorities said on March 6, 1959, 9-year-old Candice "Candy" Rogers disappeared after selling campfire mints near her home in Spokane’s West Central neighborhood.
Her family became concerned after she didn’t return home that night. Police later found boxes of campfire mints, believing to belong to Candy, strewn along Pettet Drive. RELATED: Fugitive Baltimore.