death was the at the club that weekend, one of the places you went to? we did not know, we did not know him, he did not stand out, if he was there. yet, the da thinks it is likely that the two met. i think she was targeted, that she encountered him at some event before hand. my guess, she had spurned him, and he saw her out there, at that apartment at some point the damages. connection to christy seemed tenuous, but stedman says the dna proved that rowe killed her. in fact, the odds of the killer being anybody other than him on the entire planet were not just one in 1 million. 9 million top chilean, 1000 trillion trillion, things like this, you can conceive of a number with 30 zeroes, which is what we end up getting. remarkable. i have never heard of a case with this much. remember that composite from the killer s dna? it turns out, it was a pretty good match to rowe. even then, it was hard for someone in lancaster to believe that rowe could commit such a horrible cri
there was like, it could have been me, why was it not me? why did she have to die? rowe was now facing trial. if convicted, the death penalty. but, it did not come to that. in january, 2019, he pled guilty to the murder and rape of christy mirack in exchange for a life sentence. citing newly discovered evidence, he has since petition to the court to withdraw his guilty plea and go to trial. as for christy family, they felt relieved, but also cheated. he has been doing what he wanted to do for the past 26 years, and she has been dead for the last 26 plus years, i think that he got off pretty easy. christy s friends were angry that rowe got to live among them for so long, never hinging at what he had done. he was a guy that i talked to, when my daughter was planning her wedding. no! at a wedding expo, face to face. oh my. you are literally talking to her killer! christy s friends were angry that rowe got to live among them for so long, never hinging at what he had done.
least expected him, in the shadows of the dance floor. coming up. he slept on my bed that night. you just do not know what to think. who was the man who murdered christy? a lot of our officers knew who he was, had been two events he had been at. his stunning identity, revealed at last. you are literally talking to christy s killer. right, face to face. when dateline continues. .when it comes to our skin, what if it could feel differently? say hello to opzelura for the treatment of mild to moderate eczema. opzelura is a steroid-free cream proven to help clear skin and significantly reduce itch. do not start opzelura if you have any infection as it may lower your ability to fight them. tell your doctor if you are being treated for an infection;. .have tb or have been in close contact with someone with tb; have had hepatitis b or c. serious lung infections, skin cancer,
their suspect after uploading dna from a crime scene to a database used by thousands looking for lost relatives. their search turned people up whose dna had distant matches to the killer. from there, investigators constructed a family tree, and narrowed it down to their man. when you read about it and see it, you say to yourself, why did i not think about this? i mean, it is completely brilliant. parabon s genetic geologists to the same thing in the hunt for the man who murdered christy. sure enough, they found relatives who shared dna with her killer. in a couple of days, they were able to take these few people, who shared dna with our unknown killer, and build up to that person could have been. remember, they knew the killer had european and latino ancestry. one man in the family tree stood out. he matched the ancestry, and lived near christy when she was murdered. but that didn t mean investigators in lancaster
are found accidentally, you might not ever know. are you okay with that? we have to live with it. i mean, it s sad and it s disappointing that will never know, or we may never know, but we have to be okay with it. that s all for this edition of dateline, i m natalie morales. thank you for watching. i m craig melvin. i m natalie morales. this is dateline. you said, christy s been murdered. she was taken so soon and i was so violently. i couldn t stop shaking. a young teacher leaving for school murdered before she could get out the door. this was a horrific scene. it was a nightmare scene. she had christmas presents that she was taking to her students that day. i was petrified. i thought, who, why?