g re-enacted After 16 years officials are still studying slaying By LYNNE TUOHY Courant Staff Writer NEW HAVEN Footfalls broke the Sunday morning silence as an assailant chased his victim across the top level of a city parking garage, against a haze-shrouded New Haven skyline. Splotches of red dotted the cement floors. The squeal of tires signaled . the erratic course of the getaway car. A dozen law enforcement officers looked on, intent but passive. They were watching the re-enactment of the slaying of Concetta "Penny" Serra, a 21-year-old New Haven woman stabbed to death 16 years ago in a dingy cement stairwell atop the Temple Street parking garage. Sunday's staging was another attempt in a renewed effort to solve a lulling that has proved both unsolv-able and controversial At best, it brought officials only a small step closer in a marathon investigation that is attempting to apply 1989 technology to a crime that took place in 1973. Unsolved , e stabbin . , 4 .6. . l J ; - LynneTuohy Th Hartford Courant Dr. Henry C. Lee, who Is renowned for reconstructing crime scenes, explains his findings to John Serra, far left, after Sunday's re-enactment of the unsolved slaymg of Serra's daughter, Penny, In New Haven In 1973. With Serra are his nephew, his fiancee and his daughter. It wasn't so much technology as human sweat that was poured into the effort Sunday, as a dozen investigators and forensic scientists gathered for the re-enactment that had been planned for more than 14 months. John Serra watched stoically as men who have immersed themselves in his eldest daughter's case for the past two years attempted to measure the last moments of her life with . Please see Unsolved, Page A8 !M?''l'Mlll'!lgffl
