In September 1998, Willie Crain kidnapped and murdered the seven year old Amanda Brown. The girl was almost certainly raped as well because Crain had previously been sentenced to twenty years for multiple sex offences against young girls, although he had been released after serving only six years.
He was an obvious suspect from the beginning, but the investigators didn't take anything for granted, though when a search of Crain's home turned up blood in his bathroom, the case was as good as closed. There was also DNA evidence. This wasn't an entirely routine prosecution because the victim's body was never found, but the case against him remained and remains compelling. Having committed this crime in Florida, Crain was sentenced to death. Shamefully, at the time of writing he is still on death row.
This run of the mill documentary includes reconstructions but nothing graphic.
He was an obvious suspect from the beginning, but the investigators didn't take anything for granted, though when a search of Crain's home turned up blood in his bathroom, the case was as good as closed. There was also DNA evidence. This wasn't an entirely routine prosecution because the victim's body was never found, but the case against him remained and remains compelling. Having committed this crime in Florida, Crain was sentenced to death. Shamefully, at the time of writing he is still on death row.
This run of the mill documentary includes reconstructions but nothing graphic.