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mer girlfriend's house in Vermillion and raping her repeatedly over a four-hour period in 1990. Several other women testified at his sentencing that he had assaulted and raped them, too.
• When the state started a cold case unit with federal funding that has since dried up, David Lykken's name came up because he was a classmate of Miller and Jackson and the family farm is less than two miles from the gravel pit where the girls were headed the evening they disappeared.
• Investigators searched the farm in 2004 and collected bones, clothing, a red purse, a Bible, camera, photographs, newspaper clippings, two chrome-plated hubcaps and other items, according to court documents. Authorities didn't indicate if any of it was connected to the girls until this week when they said the items taken would be returned the Lykken family.
• In 2007, a Union County grand jury indicted David Lykken on two counts of premeditated murder, two counts of felony murder and two counts of murder in the disappearance of Miller and Jackson. State prosecutors later dropped all six murder charges after concluding a jailhouse informant lied about David Lykken supposedly admitting to killing the girls.
• A federal judge who ruled in favor of investigators who carried out the searches did conclude they unreasonably prevented the Lykkens from tending to their cattle and a pregnant cat, which resulted in the death of some kittens.
• "David was in prison," Kerwyn Lykken said. "My mom, my son, my sister. They were the ones who went through the brunt of this."
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