Two decades after "Night Stalker" satanic killer Richard Ramirez was sentenced to die for 13 Southern California murders, DNA evidence has tied him to the 1984 rape-slaying of a 9-year-old girl in the Tenderloin, San Francisco authorities said today.
The DNA links Ramirez and possibly a second, unknown attacker to the April 10, 1984, killing of Mei Leung, who was found hanging over a pipe in the basement of her apartment building at 765 O'Farrell St., police said.
The girl was with her 8-year-old brother when she dropped a dollar bill that went under a door of the basement and went looking for it, police said. The boy wandered away, then came back and found his sister dead. Police said she had been beaten, raped and stabbed.
The police cold-case unit recently revived the case, and officials issued a $100,000 reward for information leading to a conviction.
The killing happened more than two months before Ramirez's first known murder, the slaying June 28, 1984, of 79-year-old Jennie Vincow of the Glassell Park area of Los Angeles.
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