LAWRENCE, Kan. (KPR) — Lawrence police say DNA discovered on a single cigarette butt helped crack a 25-year-old case involving child sex crimes. Fifty-eight-year-old David James Zimbrick was arrested Monday in Raytown, Missouri, for allegedly raping a child in a Lawrence park two decades ago. Police Chief Rich Lockhart says it took a cigarette butt collected at the crime scene and the use of “genetic genealogy” technology to identify the suspect.
“It’s been 9,257 days since David James Zimbrick sexually assaulted a seven-year-old girl in Naismith Park and when the…
