After 38 years a South St. Louis man is now facing charges in a double murder from 1970. It's interesting to mention that Theodore Kleine did go in trial for the murders of Alan Brian Bradford and Mary Seutter but the case ended in a hung jury; the vote to covict was 13-2. No one is quite sure why the case was never retried. But I'm told all the witnesses are still alive and so the prosecuting attorney in Dunklin County, in the bootheel, is ready for a new trial.
Detectives had originally wanted to try and gather DNA evidence from relatives of the victims, but I'm told the samples from the scene of the crime were no longer good and had decayed over time. So it will be interesting to see the new information that will come out in a trial.

1 Comments

Pam Bullock said:

wow! It is sad that it took 38 years for the victims familys to finally have closer.

May 8, 2008 10:47 PM

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