DNA TIES 10-YEAR RAPE CASE

Robert Mitchell, a 43 year old convicted sex offender from Connecticut, was linked to the rape and murder of an 11 year old girl in Florida almost 10 year ago by a database of DNA from convicted sex offenders.  He will face first degree murder and sexual battery charges in the death of sixth grader Cherie Morrisette, whose body was found on December 8, 2996, about 10 miles from her family's Jacksonville home.  At the time Mitchell lived in a nearby town.

(Hartford, Connecticut)