Friday, January 31, 2020

SERIAL RAPIST NABBED BY DNA FOR 24-YEAR OLD MURDER

Using DNA Technology, Authorities Charge Man With 1996 Fresno Rape And Murder

LAPPL News Watch
January 30, 2020

Authorities in Fresno announced Wednesday that have filed a murder charge in the rape and killing of a college student 24 years ago. F

resno County District Attorney Lisa Smittcamp announced the charges against Nickey Duane Stane, 52, in the 1996 slaying of 22-year-old Debbie Dorian.

Authorities said they linked Stane to Smittcamp’s killing through a DNA match when he was arrested last year in a string of attacks on young women in Visalia from 1999 to 2002. He was arrested on those charges in October and remains in custody in neighboring Tulare County.

An attorney for Stane, Tom Faulkner, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

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