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Murder of 12-Year-Old Girl Solved Nearly 43 Years Later in Texas, But Killer Was Executed for Other Killing
Lesia Mitchell Jackson disappeared on Sept. 7, 1979, after spending the day at a local pool
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The cold case murder of a 12-year-old girl in Texas has finally been solved more than 40 years later, authorities confirmed Monday.
In a release shared to Twitter Monday, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office revealed that after utilizing a new forensic technology called "M-Vac," scientists were able to link the 1979 murder of Lesia Mitchell Jackson to an already-executed man named Gerald Dwight Casey.
Upon further search, the statement said, authorities discovered that Casey had been executed by lethal injection on April 18, 2022, for a murder committed in Montgomery County in 1989.
Lesia disappeared from her neighborhood on September 7, 1979, according to the release, after spending a day at the neighborhood pool. The following day, her glasses were found at a local intersection, and then her body was found by an oilfield worker on Sept. 13, 1979.
An autopsy revealed that the young girl had been sexually assaulted and murdered. After a years-long investigation the case eventually went cold.