Post by lesserknownpea on Jun 9, 2019 18:13:24 GMT
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Jun 7, 2019 14:08:26 GMT @zingermack said:
"Previously unprocessed DNA evidence has led them to a new prime suspect, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch says he's a 61-year-old disgraced Air Force veteran with a number of child pornography charges to his name.He showed up on a list of sex offenders compiled four years after Angie Housman died, but he was never interviewed.
He did not appear on anyone’s radar,” Lohmar told reporters on Wednesday, adding that Cox had been one of hundreds of sex offenders whose name was included on the FBI’s list. “It’s a manpower issue. Even if they had followed up with him or anybody on that list, without scientific evidence to pin him down, without other circumstantial evidence, without other eyewitness evidence, it would be very, very difficult to form a suspect out of a simple name on a list.”
That scientific evidence came many years later, thanks to advances in genetic testing. Forensic scientists detected a DNA sample on a tiny scrap of fabric taken from the pink trim of Angie’s Barbie underwear, which matched Cox’s profile in a national database. It was one of the last pieces they had left to check. Testing the tiny scrap of fabric wouldn’t have been possible years earlier, Lohmar said, because until 2017, clothing dye made it difficult to get an accurate DNA sample."
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/06/angie-housman-earl-w-cox-jr-st-louis-murder/
So grateful for science so these individuals can no longer get away as easily as they once could. I hope they know that they will be caught in many cases. I hope that makes them less likely to harm others due to their own mental sickness.
I totally agree! Clearly the police and volunteers were very motivated to find her, and then her killer. They did the best they could with what they had. Now they have better tools and I am glad. If nothing else, get the killers off the streets faster so more innocent lives are not destroyed.
This story was beyond heartbreaking. How that mother continued living with that is amazing to me. I’m so sorry she died without closure.