Author: Isabel Hughes, Delaware News Journal

Amanda didn’t know, much like the woman he would go on to kill, that Justin Chaffier had a history of intimate partner violence.

Despite a meticulous forensic sketch, no one knew who the little girl found in a Delaware softball field was. Then, someone recognized her.

Jose Romero was arrested Saturday in Delaware. He evaded capture in South Carolina in 1979 after being convicted of armed robbery.

Police say the girl, whose remains were found at a softball field in Smyrna, Delaware, was 2 to 5 years old.

Decades after a woman was raped near the University of Delaware campus, police identified a suspect based on DNA and “cutting-edge technology.”