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SATI e-News: September 2, 2002
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Single CODIS
Hit Reveals Serial Sex Offender With Offenses
Across the Country |
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In Oklahoma, the kidnapping and rape
of a 9-year-old girl has been linked to a 36-year-old man
through DNA tests that also turned up matches to other sexual
assaults around the nation, according to the Associated Press.
DNA tests identified the suspect as Steven James Selby, a 36
year-old white male. Selby has outstanding felony warrants and
is still at large. In many of the cases, the suspect entered the
victim's residence during the early morning hours or while the victim was sleeping and sexually assaulted her.
Tucson and San Diego Police Departments had identified the same
DNA profile in a series of sexual assaults that occurred over
the last couple of years in San Diego, California and Tucson,
Arizona. Oklahoma was the third state to identify the same DNA
profile in the sexual assault of a 9-year-old girl. Sparks
Police Department (Nevada) investigated a sexual assault
involving a young girl in the spring of 2001. In that case,
detectives identified a possible suspect and his DNA was
obtained from the suspect's residence after he fled.
Apparently, the suspect DNA was only recently entered into the
National DNA (CODIS) Database, which provided investigators in
Oklahoma, Arizona and California with the much sought after
identity of their assailant.
Sources:
"Wanted suspect linked to girl's rape." The Associated Press
State & Local Wire, August 20, 2002.
August 23, 2002 issue of DNA Legislation & News,
published by Smith Alling Lane, a government affairs firm that
provides nationwide governmental affairs services to Applied
Biosystems:
http://docs.appliedbiosystems.com/hid.taf
San Diego Police Department, Sergeant Joanne Archambault, Sex
Crimes Unit |
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