Prosecutors yesterday said Cosden won't face the death penalty if convicted because he faces the murder charge under the law as written in 1973. But at this point what we're seeing is a light at the end of the tunnel.' 'They say that time heals all wounds, but I'm here to tell you that it doesn't,' Devine said. It's the oldest unsolved slaying so far in the state to be solved using new DNA-testing technology, police said. He has been charged with first-degree murder.

Police and prosecutors in Thurston County yesterday gathered to announce that new DNA tests say Devine's killer is 55-year-old William Cosden Jr., a convicted rapist who has been in prison since 1976 and was always the prime suspect in Devine's slaying. All of these years, I had wanted to believe it.' 'He seemed to be the most logical person. 'He was my, if you will, my quasi-closure,' Bill Devine of South Seattle said of Bundy yesterday. Who else could have been so bloodthirsty in November 1973 to pick up Kathy Devine, 14, from Aurora Avenue North in Seattle, rape her, strangle her, cut her throat and leave her body in a campground southwest of Olympia? Out of frustration more than anything else, Katherine Merry Devine's father has spent the past three decades letting himself believe his slain daughter was a victim of serial killer Ted Bundy, even though Bundy himself denied it all the way to the electric chair.

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