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DNA Match Brings Serial Killer to Justice | by Josie Klakström | Medium

DNA Match Brings Serial Killer to Justice

Josie Klakström
5 min readJul 31, 2020

He began killing in 1989, but wasn’t connected to the crime for 15 years. In that time, he raped and assaulted countless men and women, and killed two young boys.

Scott Erskine was born in winter of 1962, in San Diego, California. At five years old, Erskine ran into traffic on the Pacific Coast Highway and was hit by a car. He spent the next 60 days in a coma in hospital, and although he recovered from the accident, he complained to his mother about headaches and often blacked out, which gave him memory loss.

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Josie Klakström

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