PETRIE, C.J.
At 8:45 a.m. on March 6, 1975, 8-year-old Janet Kleiner left her home in Lacey, Washington, intending to walk to school some four or five blocks away. She never arrived. Within an hour she was abducted, raped, sodomized, and murdered. Her body was found the next day, some 8 miles from school, hanging from the limb of a tree, one end of a dog leash looped around her neck and the other end tied to the limb.
The autopsy surgeon testified that "death...
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