DNA ties suspect in Ark. anchor slaying to rape

[Ghost in the Machine]

DNA ties suspect in Ark. anchor slaying to rape
Published: 11/28/08, 5:46 PM EDT
By JON GAMBRELL

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Forensic evidence gathered at the home of a slain television anchorwoman led police to a man now also suspected of raping a school teacher in eastern Arkansas, officials said Friday.

Curtis Lavelle Vance, 28, of Marianna offered a DNA sample to Little Rock police detectives during an interview Tuesday in his hometown, officers said. A day later, a man once only garnering suspicion for loitering in neighbors' yards became the prime suspect in a slaying of anchorwoman Anne Pressly.

"They asked if we had a suspect who could have done it and I told them we had a guy running around, getting in some burglaries, going in people's yards early in the morning, hanging around the house, hanging around the neighborhood," Marianna police Sgt. Carl McCree said. "That was Curtis Vance."

Little Rock police traveled 90 miles east to Marianna this week after DNA collected at Pressly's home matched that from an unsolved April rape in the town, McCree said. On April 21, a teacher there said a man attacked her in her home after she had woken up and taken a shower. She said she didn't see the man's face, and that he told her he had a gun and asked her for money.

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[ben_meyers]

1. I thought she was killed because of a bit part in Stones

"W" movie, at least that was the theory.


Here is the skinhead they suspect.

[LisaL]

2. I never believed there was a personal reason or stalking.

Just because there is extreme violence, doesn't mean the victim knows her attacker.

[hlthe2b]

3. "skinhead"

huh???????????

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