Troopers admit errors in affidavits for search warrants of Maine man charged in Fairbanks cold case Author: Christopher Williams, (Lewiston, Maine) Sun Journal Updated: February 4 Published February 4
Steven Downs, right leaves the courtroom with his attorney, James Howaniec after bail was denied at Androscoggin County Superior Court in Auburn, Maine on Wednesday, March 20, 2019 after his extradition hearing. Downs has been charged by Alaska authorities with the 1993 sexual assault and murder of 20-year-old Sophie Sergie at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal via AP)
Share on Facebook
Print article Investigators relied on misinformation for warrants to search a Maine man’s home for a gun and collect his DNA to bolster their case against him in the 1993 rape and murder of an Alaska woman, according to testimony given this week.