04-17-2012, 12:10 PM
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Authorities probing the mysterious murder of a 13-year-old California girl took DNA swabs from students at her former school in their hunt for the child's killer.
The body of Jessica Funk-Haslam was found in the dugout of a baseball field at Rosemont Park in Sacramento County on March 6. A coroner ruled that the eighth-grade girl was hit in the head, stabbed and asphyxiated.
Fox affiliate KTXL-TV reported Monday that detectives visited Albert Einstein Middle School to question three or four students and take DNA cheek swabs from them.
"My child's in a room with two detectives being questioned and grilled and I’m sure he was quite frightened, which is very upsetting," Michaela Brown, the mother of one of the students, told the station.
The crime has so far baffled investigators, who say they believe the girl spent several hours in the park with someone she knew before being killed.
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