By Liliana Segura, AlterNet. Posted July 16, 2009.
Laws expanding DNA collection from people accused of crimes are passing in states across the country. But it doesn't mean that justice will be done.
In late summer 2003, 22-year-old Katie Sepich, a business student at New Mexico State University, was savagely raped, strangled, her body set on fire and then abandoned in a city dump site.
Katie's grief-stricken parents, Jayann and David Sepich, devoted themselves to seeking justice for their daughter. In September 2003, they published a heartrending plea in the NMSU newspaper, asking students and members of the community to come forward with any possible information that might lead police to her killer.
"The events that night have created a black hole in the souls and hearts of our family and those who knew and loved Katie," they wrote. "… Now is the time to come forward and help us keep this person(s) from hurting anyone else."
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