and a campus worker found a small red bag with some toiletry items not far from where susan schumake was murdered. inside, police found some identification. he finds a pharmaceutical bottle that has the name daniel woloson, but it was prescribed at the menard correctional center. they did some checking on him and found that he was on parole, and so he became a person of interest. 21-year-old daniel woloson had recently been released from prison for a burglary conviction. he was a handyman working on campus at the time of the murder. daniel was working at the quad apartments, which is probably about a quarter mile away from the crime scene. when questioned by police, woloson said he had an alibi for the night of susan schumake s murder, that he was with a friend. and the officers took him to the various locations trying to
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the first person on their list was daniel woloson. he was originally a suspect. he was working a quarter mile away on the day of the murder. then he ran off when police tried to question him. police found him in michigan where he worked at an auto salvage yard. by this time, he was divorced with one child and did not want to talk with police. woloson told them that he had provided hair samples and fingerprints back in 1981. he was not interested in cooperating with their investigation. investigators wanted a dna sample. woloson refused to provide one, and the courts refused to order one, citing the lack of probable cause. woloson s hair was on file from the original investigation, but the samples didn t contain root material, so they couldn t be used to generate a full genetic
killer, but only dna could prove it. and the suspect, daniel woloson, wasn t willing to provide it. so michigan state police decided they d take his dna in a perfectly legal manner. they decided to run surveillance on him. the whole purpose was to try to get something that might have daniel woloson s dna so we could either identify him or eliminate him. it wasn t easy. since woloson worked in an auto parts salvage yard, only other employees could get close to him without arousing suspicion. then police learned he had recently sold his car and they knew he smoked cigarettes. so they traced the car to its new owner. they asked him about the cigarette butts in the ashtray. he says, well, i don t smoke, and all my friends throw their cigarette butts out the window, so these are, like, when i bought the car.
despite the evidence against him, woloson pleaded not guilty. in march of 2006, 25 years after susan s murder, daniel woloson was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 40 years in prison. the university has now built a well-lighted pedestrian overpass so students no longer have to walk through the overgrown dirt path where susan was abducted and murdered. it was named in susan s honor. my wife had made the comment, she said, you know, i wonder how much it costs to have one of these overpasses built. and i said, i ll tell you what it costs. it costs one human life. that s why we do what we do, you know, to bring justice to these families, so the families deserve a lot of credit, as well. they re the people who push us along the way. i went back to the site again after the trial. and i had been beaten there by quite a few people.