After 43 years Cold Case FINALLY solved | Lesia Jackson

A 12-year-old Texas girl's murder and rape from a 43-year-old cold case have finally been solved. After passing the day at a local pool on September 7, 1979, Lesia Michell Jackson vanished. Her body was found by an oilfield worker more than a week later, thrown in a "heavily wooded area," according to the authorities. Lesia had been killed and the victim of sexual assault, according to a subsequent autopsy. Detectives from the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) spent years looking into the case but were never able to identify her killer—until now. The MCSO Cold Case Homicide Squad collected DNA samples from Lesia's clothing and used cutting-edge forensic technology to link them with a local man named Gerald Dwight Casey. They quickly learned that Casey had previously engaged in violent attacks and had been put to death by lethal injection for a different capital crime he had committed in Montgomery County in 1989. On April 18, 2002, he passed away. But because a blood sample from Casey was still around, investigators were able to precisely match it to the evidence on Lesia.

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