Hoping you all can help me understand the timeline here...so Henderson is accused of rape when he was 14 years old. I am sure as a juvenile his charges were expunged. Then this dirtbag gets out in 2020, and in 2021 rapes another woman. Guessing his DNA was taken from from the rape kit results but because they didn't previously have Henderson's
DNA the results just sat there. Now, with the unfortunate set of circumstances with the untimely passing of Liza and the collection of his DNA, LE was able to nail him. Am I right on the sequencing of events as devastating as they are?
My understanding of the sequence is a little bit different.
As I understand it:
The 2021 rape kit was caught in a backlog of unprocessed rape kits, and not sent to be tested until early summer, 2022.
The test results returned late August, were sent to CODIS, the national DNA database, and returned a match with CH, on Sept 5. (Presumably his DNA had been entered because of his earlier violent crime conviction, prison sentence, etc.
Unfortunately, in the mean time, Eliza had been kidnapped and murdered. Since LE had the violent kidnapping on video, they rushed the DNA processing of his sandals, (which he’d evidently lost in the struggle,) and the match with his CODIS DNA came back fast. And as you said, they nailed him!