When the suspect in an horrific attack fled the scene in Redmonds Marymoor Park, he left behind a key piece of evidence that had this happened years prior wouldnt have been of much use. <\/p>\n
Report: Filmmaker shocked by scope of sex trafficking problem in the U.S. <\/p>\n
King County Prosecuting Attorney Daniel Satterberg says the attack in the park in August is a rare crime, however, its a crime everyone lives in fear of. <\/p>\n
On Wednesday, 33-year-old transient Charles Stockwell Jr. was charged with first-degree assault for allegedly attacking a Redmond woman while she was walking her dog. The Seattle Times reports Stockwell hid in the bushes and attacked the woman from behind. <\/p>\n
Satterberg told KIRO Radios Ron and Don that, after beating the woman and nearly breaking one of her arms he popped it out of the socket he took a shoe lace from his own shoe and began to strangle her. <\/p>\n
Stockwell was allegedly scared off after another man ran toward the two after hearing the womans screams. <\/p>\n
According to Satterberg, the shoe lace Stockwell used to strangle the woman was the key evidence. <\/p>\n
He left skin cells on the ends of the lace, he explained. <\/p>\n
The first time the crime lab ran the lace nothing appeared. That was because Stockwell wasnt in the system yet. When they ran it a second time, his DNA appeared, after being convicted of a felony in Kitsap County. <\/p>\n
Satterberg says it is likely that law enforcement would have never caught up to Stockwell if DNA testing wasnt as advanced and readily available as it is today. <\/p>\n
King County Sgt. Cindi West agrees. <\/p>\n
Technology and science have really increased our ability to solve crimes in a lot of ways, she said. Whether its technology with video cameras and such that people have, or science-type with DNA and such. Were really happy we have this system and that it helped us identify this suspect. <\/p>\n
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