shawna was removed from her mother and adopted when she was five years old, before danielle was born. so we re travelling to meet her older brother robert, to find out more about the family and what shawna was like. so robert always thought that he would find shawna. it is pretty common that adopted brothers and sisters would try to find each other into adulthood. and so this news that she d been killed and she s been killed 30 years ago has hit him pretty hard, and i want to find out firstly how that feels but secondly, what kind of person shawna was, because he s one of the only people that we ve found, anyway who knew shawna, can remember shawna, and the kind of difficult upbringing that he and her had.
but she never found her sister shawna. i made posters, printed flyers. i would go into little, tiny towns. people thought i was stalking them. so where did you start putting these posters up? i tried putting them on the trees. it did not work, so i put them on signs stop signs, signs, yield signs. i put them on car windows. i was going to keep looking. i did not care what it took, what i had to do. so, ijust i didn t know if i was going to find who her or not, but i was gonna keep looking. by building out a family tree, 0thram was able to work out that, in all likelihood, danielle was closely related to grace doe. danielle was then asked by police to give a dna sample and it was a match. the murder victim was her missing sister
shawna was removed from her mother and adopted when she was five years old, before danielle was born. we are travelling to meet her older brother, robert, to find out more about the family and what shawna was like. so robert always thought that he would find shawna. it is pretty common that adopted brothers and sisters would try to find each other into adulthood. so this news that she had been killed and had been killed 30 years ago has hit him pretty hard. i want to find out firstly how that feels but secondly what kind of person shawna was, because he s one of the only people who that we ve found, anyway who knew shawna, can remember shawna, and the kind of difficult upbringing that he and her had.
people thought i was stalking them. so where did you start putting these posters up? i tried putting them on the trees. it did not work so i put them on stop signs, yield signs. i put them on car windows. i was going to keep looking. i did not care what it took or what i had to do. i didn t know if i was going to find who her or not, but i was going to keep looking. by building a family tree, 0thram was able to work out that in all likelihood danielle was closely related to grace doe. danielle was then asked by police to give a dna sample and it was a match. the murder victim was her sister, a sister who she had wanted to meet one day. i didn t know if it was her or not but it sunk in because i know 100% it is her.
like with the golden state killer, david and his team drew up another family tree. they worked out another common ancestor, a shared great great grandparent. using that family tree, they developed a theory. when 0thram did their search they came up with several different people who all share the same dna with the person found in missouri, and one of those people is called danielle pixler. she lives in topeka, kansas. we have come here to speak to her. i think i was in my 20s when i started to get on facebook. as an adult, danielle was told she had an older brother and sister who she had never met. she managed to connect with her brother, robert, but she neverfound her sister, shawna. i made posters and printed flyers. i would go into little tiny towns.