16-Year-Old Girl's Killer Revealed 30 Years After His Crime
Advanced DNA testing revealed that the rapist and murderer of a 16-year-old girl in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1989 was her cousin, investigators said.
Fawn Cox was raped and strangled by her cousin Donald Cox Jr. in July 1989, according to KCTV. Donald Cox Jr. died in 2006 from a drug overdose, according to KSHB.
“It’s a relief there’s closure,” Fawn Cox’s sister Felisa Cox said. “The answers aren’t always what we were asking for, but there’s closure.”
With the help of @FBIKansasCity, we have solved the 31-year-old homicide case of Fawn Cox, who was violently murdered in her home in July 1989 while the rest of her family slept. The suspect is now deceased. More from @angiericono w/ @KCTV5: https://t.co/1psj1nPXtp pic.twitter.com/07uaSrOGLW
— kcpolice (@kcpolice) November 9, 2020
Fawn Cox, who worked at an amusement park in Kansas City, came home after a late shift on July 26, 1989, and immediately went to bed, KCTV reported.
Her mother and sister found her unresponsive in her bed the next morning after they heard her alarm.
“I went over to shake her, ‘Come on! Get up!’ But she had been gone for a while,” Felisa Cox said.
While there were family members in the house at the time of the attack, Felisa Cox said they didn’t hear anything because of their loud air conditioner.
“To pick that home and that window to come in undetected and leave undetected makes sense the suspect knew Fawn,” Kansas City Police Department Sgt. Ben Caldwell said.
Three teenagers had been charged following the crime, but no evidence was able to prove they were at the scene of the crime and the charges were dropped, according to The Kansas City Star.
For years, the Cox family had pushed for police to use DNA testing in the investigation, even holding fundraisers to bankroll such testing.
The FBI recently decided to fund the advanced testing.
“It was our honor to notify her family of this news today, and we hope they might finally have some closure after decades of uncertainty and pain,” the Kansas City Police Department tweeted Monday.
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