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Detectives used DNA evidence to identify a suspect in the rape and murder of a young girl in Missouri 25 years ago.

Angie Housman was nine when she vanished after getting off of a school bus in 1993 in the St. Ann suburb of St. Louis.

Her body was found tied to a tree nine days later by a deer hunter in a remote section of Busch Wildlife Area in St. Charles County.
Forensic scientists found a DNA sample last fall on a piece of clothing from the crime scene that had previously gone undetected. It is understood that a fingerprint was found at the scene.

Using recent advances in DNA analysis, scientists matched to an Air Force veteran, 61, and convicted pedophile, according to the St Louis Post-Dispatch.

The man is a pedophile and an international online child pornography purveyor, sources familiar with the case told the publication.

It is understood the suspect was born and raised in St. Louis and joined the Air Force in 1975.

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ST. CHARLES COUNTY — St. Charles County Prosecutor Tim Lohmar announced Wednesday that he has charged 61-year-old Earl W. Cox with first-degree murder, kidnapping and sodomy in the abduction, rape and killing of Angie Housman.

The news comes more than 25 years after the fourth-grader from St. Ann was found dead in a wooded area in St. Charles County. Angie had disappeared from her school bus stop in St. Ann nine days earlier.

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  • Aug 21, 2020
The man accused in the gruesome death of 9-year-old Angie Housman in 1993 pleaded guilty to the killing Thursday and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Earl W. Cox, 63, was facing charges of first-degree murder and first-degree sexual abuse after his DNA was found on a piece of Angie’s clothing more than 25 years after her death. He pleaded guilty to both counts, bringing some closure to one of the most high-profile criminal cases in the St. Louis area for the last 30 years.

“Your crimes not only terrified Angie and her family, but the entire community,” St. Charles County Circuit Judge Jon A. Cunningham said before sentencing Cox, who appeared in court using a walker with gray hair past his shoulders and a blue surgical mask covering a white beard.

Members of Angie’s family appeared for the plea and sentencing, with the girl’s stepfather, brother, aunts and cousin addressing the court about years of pain that continues to this day.

St. Charles County Prosecutor Tim Lohmar told reporters after the sentencing that he regretted that the death penalty was not an option, but said he decided to enter the plea deal to avoid the uncertainty of trial and secure from Cox a confession and some explanation of what happened to Angie.


“He does deserve the death penalty, he deserves a worse fate than what he gave to Angie,” Lohmar said.
Cox admitted in court Thursday that he picked up the girl, who he said was a stranger to him, that frigid afternoon. She was tired and cold and got into his orange sedan, he said. He said he drove off against her will, taking her to Wentzville where Cox was renting a home. He admitted in court to sexually abusing the girl in the home and holding her captive there.

Cox then admitted to binding the fourth grader to a tree in a remote area of Busch Wildlife Area in St. Charles County and leaving her to die.
A deer hunter found Angie’s body nine days after she disappeared. She had been starved, bound, sexually assaulted, and her eyes and mouth were covered with duct tape. Authorities believe she died from exposure within about a day before she was found.

Cox had a history of sexually abusing children before abducting Angie, and admitted in court Thursday that he underwent treatment for pedophilia after a 1982 conviction. In that case, Cox was dishonorably discharged from the Air Force and convicted of molesting four girls he babysat while stationed at a base in Germany.

He was released in 1985 but sent back to prison in 1992 after he was arrested on suspicion of inappropriate contact with two girls in Overland.

Cox has been incarcerated since 2003, when he was convicted of being an administrator for an international online child pornography network. He completed his sentence for that crime in 2011 but authorities designated him a sexually dangerous person and kept him incarcerated at the Butner Medium Security Facility in North Carolina.

Cox was released from prison 11 months before Angie disappeared.

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What this child went through is unimaginable and heartbreaking
 

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