State's DNA database links Fulton County man to 1999 rape case

ATLANTA - Lieutenant Governor Mark Taylor said Tuesday the state&#39;s new DNA database was used to link a Fulton County man indicted on felony-murder charges to a 1999 rape. <br> <br> Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard says Tommy C. Wright Junior was indicted in two separate cases Tuesday. <br> <br> Wright was charged with murder, felony murder, rape, aggravated assault, feticide, burglary and cruelty to children stemming from the October 29, 2001 beating death of Erica L. Thompson. <br> <br> Howard says DNA evidence that was collected from Thompson&#39;s body positively matched Wright. The evidence was then put into the state&#39;s DNA database, which matched Wright&#39;s DNA with DNA from an unsolved rape case in 1999. <br> <br> The General Assembly passed Taylor&#39;s DNA database bill last year, which requires the collection of DNA samples from convicted felons. <br> <br> Last week, authorities charged three men with murdering a Coweta County farmer and his son 12 years ago, saying they solved the case through the DNA database.

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