Metro

New suspect in ’04 slay

NYPD detectives have narrowed their search to one new suspect in the unsolved 2004 murder of Juilliard student Sarah Fox, officials said yesterday.

Cold-case cops are DNA testing a new piece of evidence to see if it links a New England man in his 60s to the Inwood Park crime, said Detective Mark Tebbens.

A tipster “put us onto some evidence” that cops obtained in the New England area, Tebbens said.

“We recovered it and removed it to the Medical Examiner’s Office so it could be examined for possible linkage to the crime scene, the victim, or perpetrator or perpetrators,” he said. “The Medical Examiner’s Office is doing DNA analysis on the item.”

If the forensics on the evidence is linked to the man, police will want to question him, Tebbens added.

The suspect had links to Inwood at the time of Fox’s strangulation and still maintains ties to the upper Manhattan area, Tebbens said.

Cops began looking into three new suspects after a recent flurry of tips on the case — but have ruled out two of them.

“We started with three and now we’re down to one suspect,” Tebbens said.

Cops submitted the evidence five or six weeks ago, but aren’t sure when the tests will come back.