ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - During a press conference Wednedsay, the St. Charles County Prosecuting Attorney charged 61-year-old Earl Webster Cox with first-degree murder, kidnapping and sodomy in the abduction, and rape in the 1993 case of 9-year-old Angie Housman.
Housman was abducted in November 1993 as she got off the school bus in St. Ann. She was found dead by a deer hunter more than a week later in the August Busch Conservation area.
Previously unprocessed DNA evidence has led them to a new prime suspect, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch says he's a 61-year-old disgraced Air Force veteran with a number of child pornography charges to his name.
He showed up on a list of sex offenders compiled four years after Angie Housman died, but he was never interviewed. St. Charles County prosecutor Tim Lohmar says charges are forthcoming on the man, who's in federal custody out of state, but couldn't give details beyond that.
Housman was abducted after getting off the school bus on Nov. 18, 1993. She was just about a half block from her St. Ann home.
A nine-day search began with hundreds of police officers and volunteers. A deer hunter found Housman's body tied to a tree in a remote section of the August Busch Conservation in St. Charles County.