“Right around the time Kaylie Rousch was kidnapped, there was a series of murders. Garrotings. Several people were killed, seemingly at random, with no connections between them. It was a spree that lasted three months. “We found her body, the body we thought was hers, I should say, on the property of a man named Eric Wright. He lived in a double-wide trailer south of Ryder, Virginia, on about five acres of wooded land. Some hunters found the skeleton. It had been dug up by animals and wasn’t complete. There were several important parts missing, specifically the skull, so we weren’t able to do any odontological work. But it was clearly the body of a little girl, and the same blood type as Kaylie. The anthropologist who worked with the county made her age as six years old based on the growth plates on the ends of her femurs.” Thurber said, “We’re going to have to do some investigating into how, exactly, the lab got the DNA wrong.
