Jules Mikus
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Jules Pierre Nicholas Mikus (born 1959[1] ) is the convicted killer of six-year-old, Teresa Cormack, who was murdered the day after her birthday in New Zealand in 1987. He has also committed other sex crimes when he was a teenager[2].
The day Cormack's body was found, pubic hairs and semen were found on the body. However, DNA testing was not advanced enough to find the girl's killer. Mikus had been questioned by the police and even gave samples of his saliva and blood. He provided an alibi for the time of Cormack's abduction and was excluded as a possible suspect in the murder.
The case was re-opened in 1998 and new testing was done at a crime lab in the United States. The hairs found on Teresa's body matched the samples Mikus had given to police. He was arrested in February of 2002. He pleaded not guilty to Teresa's murder, however, a jury found him guilty of kidnapping, rape, sexual assault and murder.
