More than 100 pieces of DNA evidence integral to a rape and manslaughter appeal in Washington County are likely missing, attorneys allege in a recent court filing. The evidence, ranging from a sexual assault kit to fingernail scrapings and strips of masking tape, is tied to the 2002 killing of a 6-year-old girl in Greenville.

If the evidence is lost, attorneys Jacob Howard and Adnan Sultan argue, their client King Young Brown Jr., should be exonerated.

Brown is incarcerated in the Marshall County Correctional Facility and serving two consecutive sentences — 30 years for rape and 20 for manslaughter. He was convicted in 2005 of raping and killing the child whom the attorneys refer to as R.W. in their motion.

It was a day Gloria Brown, King Brown Jr.’s mother, remembers well. She said her

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