Iowa investigators say DNA links 1984 triple homicide to convict executed by Missouri in 1997
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Investigators have linked a 1984 triple homicide in southeastern Iowa to a man who was later executed for the murder of a 12-year-old girl.
The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation announced Friday that new DNA evidence implicates Andrew Six in the bludgeoning deaths of 20-year-old Justin Hook Jr., Hook's fiancee, 19-year-old Tina Lade, and Hook's mother, 41-year-old Sara Link.
Missouri authorities executed Six by lethal injection in 1997 for the 1987 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Kathy Allen. Six and his uncle kidnapped the girl from the Allen family's trailer in Ottumwa, slit her throat and dumped her body in northern Missouri.
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Retired DCI supervisor Sam Swaim says Six was always a suspect in the earlier triple homicide but investigators did not have enough evidence to charge him.