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After investigators in California closed an over 30-year-old cold case murder, the victim’s sister said her prayers were finally “answered.” Utilizing advanced forensic genetic genealogy, police in Ventura, California, announced they recently determined Larry Devon Welch murdered 42-year-old Danielle Clause, whose battered and sexually assaulted body was recovered near downtown in 1991. With no solid leads at the time, Clause’s case soon went cold. “I remember she was so badly beaten that she was unrecognizable,” her sister, Marcia Forte, said in a video released by VPD Tuesday. “And I didn’t …