The suspect wanted in connection with a brutal sexual assault was easy to find. He was in jail for another crime at the time investigators cracked the cold case in July.

But last month, Ronald Lee Moore, 40, a convicted burglar, was set free because of a technicality, even though he was ordered to be held on no bail.

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