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PORTLAND — The breakthrough in the 9-year-old mystery surrounding the killing of a prominent federal public defender came after the suspect talked about the crime and someone tipped off investigators.
Prosecutors and police haven’t disclosed what led to the arrest of 28-year-old Christopher Alexander Williamson in the Nov. 24, 2009, strangulation of Assistant Federal Public Defender Nancy Bergeson.
But others close to the investigation said it was a combination of tenacity by detectives, the suspect’s loose lips years after the crime and some luck.

SPOKANE — During the 2007 Super Bowl, Coca-Cola Co. debuted a 30-second commercial featuring a timeline of significant moments in black history.
“Montgomery, 1955: Woman remains seated. And stands for justice,” the ad says in red text beside an image of a Coke bottle from that era. The next frame reads: “D.C., 1963: A man inspires a nation to dream together.”
That man, of course, was Martin Luther King Jr. And the commercial was designed to paint Coca-Cola as a partner of the civil rights movement that King helped lead.