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Vance trial focus on earlier attack

Victim, key in DNA link, testifies

Posted: November 6, 2009 at 5:46 a.m.

Kristen Edwards (left), a Marianna rape victim, and Little Rock Police Crime Scene investigator Megan Sawchuk, witnesses in Curtis Lavelle Vance’s trial, leave the courtroom Thursday.

The DNA that led to Curtis Lavelle Vance being charged in Anne Pressly’s slaying came from an attack on a Marianna schoolteacher who told a Pulaski County jury Thursday that she was raped by a burly intruder who had a distinctive voice.

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Anne Pressly

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