New DNA technology may be key to cracking vicious 20-year-old cold case | ABC News

It has been 20 years since two masked intruders viciously beat, bound, and robbed an elderly couple in their Canberra home.

73-year-old Irma Palasics died from her injuries, while her husband Gregor was taken to hospital.

No-one has been charged for the murder, but Irma's family hold out hope that new DNA techniques, pioneered overseas, might still provide a breakthrough on the two decade old cold case.

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