A 5-year-old California girl was abducted while walking to school in 1982. A man in Nevada has just been charged with her murder.

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A 70-year-old Nevada man has been charged in the 1982 killing of a 5-year-old girl who disappeared while walking to her kindergarten class in California after detectives solved the case using DNA evidence, authorities said.

Robert John Lanoue, of Reno, Nevada, was charged last week in the killing of Anne Pham and was due in court Monday in Washoe County for a hearing about his extradition to Monterey County in California.

Pham disappeared while walking to her kindergarten class at Highland Elementary School in Seaside, California, on Jan. 21, 1982. Her body was found two days later in the former Fort Ord, an Army post on Monterey Bay."It's a very strong case.

"A new type of DNA testing not previously available to earlier investigators identified Lanoue as the suspect in Pham's murder," the district attorney's office said in a Thank you Mayor Oglesby and Seaside City Council for your continued support in helping Seaside be a safer community!

 

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It's never too late to get justice for someone. I'm glad they caught him and sadly, I doubt she was his only victim.

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