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SATI e-News: September 2, 2002
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DNA Tests
Link Slaying Defendant to Florida Case |
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San Diego County prosecutors who are trying
felon Scott Thomas Erskine for the 1993 torture, molestation and
murder of two young boys, revealed that he has also been
linked through DNA to a 1989 Florida slaying. In the Florida
case, Erskine’s DNA was lifted from a cigarette butt that was
found near the victim’s body, as reported by Copley News
Service. Erskine has served eight years of a life sentence
for the rape of a San Diego woman, a crime that occurred about
six months after the boys were killed in 1993. As a teen-ager in
San Diego county, Erskine was in and out of prison with
convictions for sexual assaults against women, girls and boys.
He was paroled at 22 in the mid-1980's.
Sources:
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
“DNA tests link slaying defendant to Florida case,” Copley
News Service, August 21, 2002
San Diego Police Department, Sergeant Joanne Archambault, Sex
Crimes Unit |
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