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Posted on 08/13/2002 3:37:04 PM PDT by aculeus
SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. (AP) - A man who committed suicide in June after becoming the focus of a rape investigation abducted and killed three Virginia girls in the 1990s, police said Tuesday.
Forensic evidence - including hair, fibers and DNA - linked Richard Evonitz to the killings in 1996 and 1997, Spotsylvania County Sheriff Ron Knight said. He said Evonitz apparently acted alone.
Evonitz lived in the area at the time Sofia Silva and sisters Kati and Kristin Lisk were abducted from outside their homes and killed.
Authorities are continuing to gather evidence to see if Evonitz is linked to crimes elsewhere, the sheriff's office said.
Kristin Lisk, 15, and Kati Lisk, 12, disappeared May 1, 1997, after getting off separate school buses near their home. Kristin's book bag was found in the front yard, its contents strewn. Her sister's book bag was in the house.
Their bodies were found five days later floating in a river about 40 miles away.
Silva, 16, was last seen doing her homework on her front porch before vanishing from her Spotsylvania home on Sept. 9, 1996. Her blanket-wrapped body turned up five weeks later in a creek.
Evonitz, 38, became the prime suspect in the slayings after he allegedly abducted a 15-year-old South Carolina girl at gunpoint in June and sexually assaulted her at his apartment.
The teenager escaped 18 hours later when Evonitz fell asleep. He shot himself to death three days later after a high-speed chase in Sarasota, Fla.
A search of his apartment in Columbia, S.C., unearthed newspaper articles about the May 1997 slayings of the Lisk sisters and handwritten notes that describe four unnamed girls, officials said.
The strongest evidence against Evonitz included two of Kristin Lisk's fingerprints found in the trunk of his car and his hair, found on the clothing of both sisters and in the rope used to bind Silva's body.
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