Caroline Dickinson
PHOTO OF BRITISH STUDENT, 13 YEAR OLD CAROLINE DICKINSON, WHO WAS ATTACKED, SEXUALLY ASSAULTED, AND MURDERED WHILE ON A CLASS TRIP IN 1996 TO PLEINE-FOUGERES (MONT ST MICHEL) FRANCE.
CAROLINE WAS IN A ROOM WITH FOUR OTHER GIRL CLASSMATES STAYING AT A YOUTH HOSTEL. THERE WERE THIRTY STUDENTS AND TEN TEACHERS STAYING AT THE FRENCH HOSTEL FROM HER SCHOOL IN CORNWALL, ENGLAND.
THE CASE WENT COLD UNTIL 2001 WHEN U.S. BORDER AGENT TOMMY ONTKO BEGAN RESEARCHING TRAVELS OF THE PRIME SUSPECT, A SPANISH MALE THEN ABOUT 50 YEARS OLD .
THOSE EFFORTS TRACKED THE SUSPECT TO MIAMI, FLORIDA. WITH THE HELP OF MIAMI-DADE POLICE THE SUSPECT WAS IDENTIFIED, LOCATED, AND ARRESTED BY U.S. AGENTS. AT THE TIME HE WAS ABOUT TO BOND OUT ON A SIMILAR SEX RELATED CHARGES IN THE U.S..
HIS DNA RESULTED IN EXTRADITION TO FRANCE TO FACE THE CHARGES THERE
THIS WAS THE FIRST CASE IN UNITED STATES HISTORY WHERE A SUSPECT WAS EXTRADITED FROM THE UNITED STATES BASED ONLY ON DNA EVIDENCE.
People in photo include: John Dickinson
CAROLINE WAS IN A ROOM WITH FOUR OTHER GIRL CLASSMATES STAYING AT A YOUTH HOSTEL. THERE WERE THIRTY STUDENTS AND TEN TEACHERS STAYING AT THE FRENCH HOSTEL FROM HER SCHOOL IN CORNWALL, ENGLAND.
THE CASE WENT COLD UNTIL 2001 WHEN U.S. BORDER AGENT TOMMY ONTKO BEGAN RESEARCHING TRAVELS OF THE PRIME SUSPECT, A SPANISH MALE THEN ABOUT 50 YEARS OLD .
THOSE EFFORTS TRACKED THE SUSPECT TO MIAMI, FLORIDA. WITH THE HELP OF MIAMI-DADE POLICE THE SUSPECT WAS IDENTIFIED, LOCATED, AND ARRESTED BY U.S. AGENTS. AT THE TIME HE WAS ABOUT TO BOND OUT ON A SIMILAR SEX RELATED CHARGES IN THE U.S..
HIS DNA RESULTED IN EXTRADITION TO FRANCE TO FACE THE CHARGES THERE
THIS WAS THE FIRST CASE IN UNITED STATES HISTORY WHERE A SUSPECT WAS EXTRADITED FROM THE UNITED STATES BASED ONLY ON DNA EVIDENCE.
People in photo include: John Dickinson
Date & Place:
at LAUNCETON COLLEGE in Cornwall, ENGLAND County United Kingdom
