The cold case slaying of a 12-year-old girl in Texas more than four decades ago has been solved after authorities used an advanced DNA tool to identify her killer, authorities say.
Authorities attributed the breakthrough to "M-Vac," a DNA collection technique originally developed to identify food contamination.The cold case slaying of a 12-year-old girl in Texas more than four decades ago was solved after authorities used an advanced DNA tool to identify her killer, authorities said Monday.
A DNA profile was identified by state forensics experts and uploaded to a DNA database, the sheriff's office said. After the profile was identified as belonging to Casey, investigators compared the DNA obtained from Lesia's clothing with a blood sample taken from Casey before his execution.Casey was executed by injection on April 18, 2002, for a 1989 robbery and murder.
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