DATE: Saturday, September 13, 1997          TAG: 9709130324

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B7   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS 

DATELINE: SPOTSYLVANIA                      LENGTH:   39 lines

BLOOD, HAIR SAMPLES TAKEN FROM INMATE IN SEARCH FOR KILLER

Police looking for the killer of three young girls took blood and hair samples from a man jailed in the abduction of an older woman, court documents filed Friday show.

Samples taken from Michael Jett on Thursday night were sent to the FBI crime laboratory Friday, Spotsylvania County Sheriff Ron Knight said.

``He's one of several people we're looking at,'' Knight said.

The lead investigator on the case, Maj. Howard Smith, told the Free Lance-Star of Fredericksburg that Jett is not considered a prime suspect.

Jett, of Colonial Beach, is in jail in Prince William County, about 40 miles from where Sofia Silva, 16, and sisters Kristin Lisk, 15, and Kati Lisk, 12, disappeared over the past year.

Jett was arrested in August and charged with abduction, sexual battery and attempted sodomy in a July 31 attack on a woman who told police she was pulled into a pickup truck in Prince William and assaulted. The 44-year-old woman escaped from the truck in Stafford County.

Police say the three Spotsylvania girls, all abducted from their homes after school, were the victims of a serial killer. Genetic material was taken from the girls' bodies and would be compared to samples from any potential suspects.

A $150,000 reward has done little to develop leads, Knight said. The donations range from two $25,000 anonymous gifts to change dropped in jars at convenience stores.

At the time of Jett's arrest, police began investigating him in connection with yet another death.

In the so-called U.S. 29 stalker case, police believe a white man fitting Jett's description abducted Alicia Reynolds, a 25-year-old Baltimore woman, after convincing her she had car trouble.

Her body was found two months later 15 miles away.

Jett has not been declared a suspect in the unsolved Reynolds case.

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