That is incorrect.
The Kimono was never tested untill just recently in the last few months when they decided to test it for DNA as part of an initiative for testing evidence from old crimes.. the DNA then came up a match for CSK. They then used proper investigative techniques to narrow down the suspect from the old Huntingdale rape file.
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Her screams caused him to flee and police believe he dropped the stolen kimono as he ran from the home.
The case was never solved and the robe was put into storage at WA Police’s evidence receival centre, where it sat unnoticed until a few months ago.
In a continuing operation to retest old evidence, State Crime Operations officers ran DNA tests on the kimono.
Police claim the DNA samples came back as a match to samples already on the police database — samples that had been recovered from the body of the third Claremont victim, Ciara Glennon, and from a 17-year-old woman grabbed in a Claremont street in 1995 and then assaulted at the nearby Karrakatta Cemetery"
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.da...t/news-story/7354e965cc2d7d087d7d207ae1d04d20
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I stand corrected. As I stated, I wasn't sure of the timing. <modsnip>