Florida Man Convicted in 1989 Indianapolis Strangling

Florida Man Convicted in 1989 Indianapolis Strangling

Story Published: Mar 27, 2008 at 7:37 AM EDT

Story Updated: Mar 27, 2008 at 7:37 AM EDT

By Nina Settappa

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Jurors convicted a Florida man of the 1989
strangling of an Indianapolis teenager after he was linked to the
murder by DNA evidence.

A Marion Superior Court jury deliberated just over half an hour
today before finding David Ashworth guilty of killing 18-year-old
Lisa Joan Summers.

Summers vanished while riding a bicycle home from her job at a
fast food restaurant in June 1989. Her body was found four days
later in a field on Indianapolis' far west side. Ashworth and
another man reported finding her body.

In 2004, Detective William Rogers submitted a DNA sample taken
from Ashworth in 1992 for testing against blood on Summers'
clothing and saliva on a cigarette butt found near her body. DNA evidence led to Ashworth's arrest in September 2006 in
Lakeland, Florida.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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