(Dagbladet): Mid bright day a Sunday in July 1985 went 15 year old Kristina Wesselman a trip from the family home in the rural Chicago suburb of Glen Ellyn to act.
The morning after she was found raped and killed.
After large and wide police investigation has murder and rape has been an unresolved matter, so-called cold case for more than 30 years.
Among other combed police pawnbrokers in “miles around” to check whether the 15-year-old pearl earrings could be exchanged against money.
Now think police that the case finally finally solved thanks to DNA technology.
Last Friday was a 62 year-old man arrested at his home in Champaign, Illinois, just over 200 kilometers from where Kristina Wesselmann was found dead on 22 July 1985.
He refused any form of knowledge of the murder and claimed he had never set foot in Glen Ellyn when he was prepared for incarceration Monday and charged with murder and rape.
Such cases have no statute of limitations in the United States.
Analyzed DNA 15 years after
In 1985 DNA technology in its early startup that technical evidence in criminal cases.
But US law enforcement made a nidtidig job of conserving all traces of the murdered 15-year-old.
In 2000, experts through the material with newly developed DNA tracing and found a DNA traces in semen remains from likfunnet 15 years earlier.
It was checked out and stored in a national DNA bank, but without matching hits – before 10 September 2015.
Released by rape atonement
62 -year-old had then given DNA sample in connection with an assault case in which he was sentenced to one year suspended sentence.
The hit struck straight into the sædsporene from the year-old case, and the next day the man was arrested.
No matter what the trial brings: the day 15 year old Kristina Wesselmann disappeared, was the then-32-year-old, now murder accused 62-year-old recently released on parole after serving a six-year long sentence for kidnapping and rape of a 27 year old woman.
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