DNA Links Inmate To 10-Year-Old Sex Crime

Authorities in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Ohio are being alerted of a child predator who possibly took pictures of children throughout the Midwest. Thirty-nine year old William “Alex” Field is serving six years in prison for possessing child pornography. He now faces new charges in Missouri in a decade-old, child sex crime.

Field was charged Tuesday with kidnapping a six-year-old girl from Clayton, Missouri, taking her into a garage, and forcibly sodomizing her. The crime occurred in May 1997, it had been inactive until DNA tests pointed to Field.

Last year, Field began serving a six-year sentence at the Missouri state prison for 12 counts of possessing child pornography. Tests of a DNA sample he provided matched the 1997 case.

St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch says Field traveled the Midwest taking photos of children for his employer.