Bookstore owner murdered in her store, DNA leads to killer a decade later

In this episode of Crime Watch Daily Updates: Bookstores are a place to get transported to another world, to escape the noise of everyday life and end up somewhere new. For one bookseller in Salt Lake City, Utah, however, the future chapters of her life were cut short when she was assaulted and killed in her own store.

Sherry Black and her husband Earl owned a bookstore called B&W Supply Billiards and Books. Sherry dealt with the books while Earl restored pool tables at their store right next to their home.

On November 30, 2010, Earl went to B&W and discovered his wife beaten and stabbed in the store. Little seemed to be out of place, except for an Armani belt. The killer left behind bloody fingerprints, but investigators couldn’t get a match on the prints.

Detectives cleared Earl and their family of suspicion.

Then, almost exactly a decade after Sherry’s violent killing, detectives in Salt Lake arrested 29-year-old Adam Durborow in October 2020. Investigators ultimately got a break in the case after sending DNA to Parabon Nanolabs, and scientists created a profile of what the suspect probably looked like. That’s how they got to Adam.

In October 2021, he pleaded guilty to aggravated murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Let’s look back at the case of a well-known local businesswoman whose family finally got justice for her murder a decade later.

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