Nearly 40 years later, DNA evidence leads to arrest in Deerfield Beach cold case

A California inmate has been extradited to Broward County after investigators said advances in DNA technology helped solve the nearly 40-year-old sexual assault of an 85-year-old woman in Deerfield Beach. Gregory Rollison, 60, was arrested Sunday and extradited from California, where prosecutors said he is serving a prison sentence. Broward Sheriff s Office investigators said DNA evidence linked him to the July 1987 attack. According to BSO, the victim was asleep in her apartment in the 300 block of North Federal Highway at around 2 a.m. when a man climbed the outside of the building, entered through a sliding door on an enclosed balcony and tied her up before sexually assaulting her twice at knifepoint. Investigators said the suspect then stole items from the home and fled. At the time, the case remained unsolved because investigators lacked the DNA technology needed to identify a suspect. Although detectives suspected Rollison after another violent attack with simila