'Father-son DNA link' between 1999 Irma Palasics killing and 2010 Woden break-in

New DNA technology has linked the cold-case murder of a 72-year-old woman in 1999 to a golf course burglary more than 10 years later, ACT Policing say.

Irma Palasics and her husband Gregor were bound, gagged and viciously bashed when two men broke in and ransacked their home on Grover Crescent in McKellar on November 6, 1999.

After the offenders left, Mr Palasics was able to free himself and phone police, but Mrs Palasics died from her injuries.

Mr Palasics, severely injured, traumatised and grief-stricken, died within a year.

Years later, sensitive new technology used to examine DNA evidence from the scene linked Mrs Palasics' death to what would seem like an unconnected incident in 2010, when four teenagers broke into the Woden Pitch and Putt.

Police have revealed the DNA evidence suggested a child-parent link, between a perpetrator of the Pitch and Putt break-in and what happened at the Palasics' home.

Senior Constable Jarryd Dunbar told Channel Nine the tests suggested the son of one of Mrs Palasics' attackers was involved in the Pitch and Putt break-in, although there was a small possibility it could have been someone from his extended family.

He said the son was believed to have been at an 18th birthday party at the Slovenian-Australian Association across the road from the Pitch and Putt earlier that evening.

"Whoever was at that party will be able to identify who those persons are in the CCTV," he said.

Police said that on October 20 this year, a man contacted Crime Stoppers and indicated he could identify people in the CCTV footage but ended the call before providing any information.

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'Father-son DNA link' between 1999 Irma Palasics killing and 2010 Woden break-in