AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas prosecutor’s office says it knew nothing of a 2004 attack on an Indiana woman when it offered a lighter sentence in a 2009 sexual assault case to a man now suspected of several killings. In a statement Monday, Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg said she offered Darren Vann a plea deal of five years’ imprisonment in the 2009 case because it was weakened by the victim’s delayed outcry, a resulting loss of DNA evidence and her inconsistent statements. The original charge could have meant up to 99 years in prison. Lehmberg said Vann’s criminal...
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