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Prosecutors try to tie Rawlins inmate to missing woman
Investigators found a skull Saturday, which might reopen the case against Steven DeLoge.
CHEYENNE - For years now, prosecutors have considered Steven DeLoge a suspect in the disappearance of his girlfriend.
He moved to Cheyenne shortly after Katherine Lowery went missing in Mississippi back in 1999.
After months of investigation, the case against DeLoge grew cold.
But DeLoge, whom investigators have also identified as Sheldon Van Houte, was convicted in 2000 of repeatedly raping Lowery's 8-year-old daughter.
He is now serving six consecutive life sentences in the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins.
On Saturday, Mississippi investigators say they discovered something that may have restarted their stalled investigation. A skull was found in a wooded area just miles away from where Lowery used to live.
Detectives scoured the wooded area when Lowery first went missing, but nothing ever turned up. Now, they are working to verify whether the skull is that of the 27-year-old woman, who was last seen near the place where the skull was recovered.
Investigators at the time said Lowery hadn't been seen or heard from since February 1999 and have since classified her disappearance as a possible homicide.
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Prosecutors try to tie Rawlins inmate to missing woman
Investigators found a skull Saturday, which might reopen the case against Steven DeLoge.
CHEYENNE - For years now, prosecutors have considered Steven DeLoge a suspect in the disappearance of his girlfriend.
He moved to Cheyenne shortly after Katherine Lowery went missing in Mississippi back in 1999.
After months of investigation, the case against DeLoge grew cold.
But DeLoge, whom investigators have also identified as Sheldon Van Houte, was convicted in 2000 of repeatedly raping Lowery's 8-year-old daughter.
He is now serving six consecutive life sentences in the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins.
On Saturday, Mississippi investigators say they discovered something that may have restarted their stalled investigation. A skull was found in a wooded area just miles away from where Lowery used to live.
Detectives scoured the wooded area when Lowery first went missing, but nothing ever turned up. Now, they are working to verify whether the skull is that of the 27-year-old woman, who was last seen near the place where the skull was recovered.
Investigators at the time said Lowery hadn't been seen or heard from since February 1999 and have since classified her disappearance as a possible homicide.
much more at link