Mengqi Ji murder: Investigators use an unlikely clue to bring Joseph Elledge, young Missouri mom's killer, to justice

More than a year after Mengqi Ji's disappearance, a hiker stumbled upon her skeletal remains in a Missouri park. How DNA from a juniper tree and a pair of muddy boots were crucial to solving her murder.

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