State v. Wilson

At 8:45 a.m. on March 6, 1975, 8-year-old Janet Kleiner left her home in Lacey, Washington,- intending to walk.to school some four or five blocks away..She never arrived. Within an hour she was abducted,. raped, sodomized, and murdered. Her body was found the next day, some 8 miles from school, hanging from the limb of a tree, one end of a dog leash looped around her neck and the other end tied to the limb.

The autopsy surgeon testified that “death was due to strangulation, the actual mode of dying being asphyxia.” He summarized his examination of the genital area as follows:

The back or lower…