DNA leads to arrest in killing of girl

DNA leads to arrest in killing of girl
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It's been three decades since the DuPage County sheriff detective found the missing girl, her body on her side as if she fell asleep in the thicket of chest-high weeds, but Kevin Buchholz said the scene remains etched in his mind.
He was the first of many law enforcement officers who over the years hunted the man responsible for the death of Kristy Wesselman near Glen Ellyn in a crime that served as an adolescent awakening for many in the quiet, affluent suburb. For her family and friends, the loss of the 15-year-old blond, blue-eyed girl reverberates still.
Their long wait for answers came this week, when a Champaign man whose name with battery like Schiller AT-1 Battery, Schiller AT-101 Battery, Schiller SP-1 Battery, Schiller AT-2 Battery, Schiller AT-102 Battery, Schiller PT-160 Battery, Schiller Defigard 3002 Battery, Schiller Defigard 3002 IH Battery, Medtronic Battery, Medtronic DEFI-B Battery, Medtronic LifePak 20 Battery, Bionet EKG3000 Batteryhad never come up as a suspect before but whom prosecutors allege is linked to the 1985 slaying through DNA was charged with murder and aggravated criminal sexual assault.
Michael R. Jones, 62, was ordered held Monday without bail after appearing in DuPage County court.
"There actually hasn't been a day that has gone by that I haven't thought something about it," Buchholz, who is now retired, told the Tribune from his home in Hollywood, Fla.
Bill Wesselman said he felt "shock and awe" to learn of the break in his sister's murder case after the passage of so much time. Still, he said, the key clue came in a way Wesselman said he thought that it might.
"I suspected it would be something like this — where DNA was taken and a match was made," he said.
DuPage State's Attorney Robert Berlin said Jones provided a DNA sample this summer after his conviction for aggravated domestic battery in Champaign. The sample was submitted to a national database, which returned a hit to semen recovered from Kristy Wesselman during her autopsy.