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,
spent the night, were unsuccessful. woloson cooperated with police and provided hair samples. but the next day when police went to speak with him again, he was gone. in his room, they found a torn note. some of the pieces were in the toilet. the rest were in a trash can. it read almost like a suicide note. i don t know why it s always me. i know i can t handle prison again. i know everyone is better off this way. police continued to search for woloson until they examined his hair sample. woloson s hair was not consistent with the hair found on susan s body, so he was eliminated as a suspect. the case threatened to go cold, until john paul phillips, now in prison for rape and kidnapping, allegedly bragged about his murders to his prison cellmate, thomas moccabe.