A man who passed a lie detector test in 1979 clearing him in the rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl was identified as her suspected killer, authorities announced Wednesday. She had been attacked and killed the previous day while walking from her parents' house in Beaumont to her sister’s house in Banning, the district attorney's office said. Authorities determined that Gonzalez had been raped and bludgeoned to death, the district attorney's office said. the district attorney's office said. The Justice Department "recently confirmed that Williamson’s DNA matches the DNA recovered from Esther’s body," the district attorney's office said.

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Persons: Esther Gonzalez, Lewis Randolph, Randy, Williamson, Gonzalez, bludgeoned Organizations: Attorney’s, Authorities, Inc, Department Locations: Banning , California, Riverside County, Beaumont, Banning, Florida, Texas