but they didn't have the necessary equipment too Analise it.13 years later the proceed the DNA under the girls nails

The discovered DNA belonged to the man Matthew Breck, who at the time of Palmer's murder lived only a block away.

When prosecutors charged him in 2010, he was already serving a 10-year sentence in Idaho for a sex-related crime involving a child.

Leis said there were several stab wounds to the girl's neck. One severed her jugular vein, causing her to bleed to death. Another pierced her spinal cord, an injury that would have paralyzed her from the chest down. He said he couldn't determine which injuries were sustained first. 

"They could have all been inflicted in a very short time," Leis said. 

Anna's killing went unsolved and became one of the city's most prominent cold cases. It was DNA technology that finally linked Breck to the crime.