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HARTFORD, Conn. -- A New Britain man agreed Thursday to return to Florida to face a murder charge after being linked to the decade-old drowning of an 11-year-old girl through a database of DNA taken from convicted sex offenders.
Robert S. Mitchell, 43, of New Britain, was being held on a $5 million bond after being arraigned as a fugitive from justice. He will face first-degree murder and capital sexual battery charges in the death of 11-year-old Cherie Morrisette of Jacksonville, police said.
The sixth-grade girl's fully clothed body was found on Dec. 8, 1996, in the St. John's River, about 10 miles from the Jacksonville apartment she shared with her mother and sister.
Her family initially thought she had run away when she disappeared six days earlier after an argument about cleaning the kitchen.
http://www.wftv.com/news/8064046/detail.html
Robert S. Mitchell, 43, of New Britain, was being held on a $5 million bond after being arraigned as a fugitive from justice. He will face first-degree murder and capital sexual battery charges in the death of 11-year-old Cherie Morrisette of Jacksonville, police said.
The sixth-grade girl's fully clothed body was found on Dec. 8, 1996, in the St. John's River, about 10 miles from the Jacksonville apartment she shared with her mother and sister.
Her family initially thought she had run away when she disappeared six days earlier after an argument about cleaning the kitchen.
http://www.wftv.com/news/8064046/detail.html