Story updated at 5:05 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 30: The cigarette butt was still warm when Lawrence Police Department Detective Mike McAtee picked it off the ground of the crime scene in Naismith Valley Park. But more importantly, it was still covered with DNA. The detective was on the scene Aug. ...
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