http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/nation/15293129.htm
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One report said the suspect was identified after he started e-mailing a Colorado journalist who had covered the child's murder case. The e-mails displayed inside knowledge of the case, according to a report on the ABC News Web site.
Ramsey attorney Lin Wood said Wednesday the suspect was not recently discovered but had been known to authorities for a while. "This individual has been under investigation for an extended period of time," he told MSNBC.
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I've read that a lot of killers try and plant themselves into a case, this guy was no different. Thank God, or he wouldn't have been caught.
"One report said the suspect was identified after he started e-mailing a Colorado journalist who had covered the child's murder case. The e-mails displayed inside knowledge of the case, according to a report on the ABC News Web site."
That human desire to talk, it's amazing how that can't be resisted.
It's astonishing this case has been solved after all these years. This man must be pure evil. Not only did he kill that defenseless child, but he let her family be put throuigh pure hell for years as suspects in the crime. Good on the journalist if they tipped the police to the "inside info"