you can see. pretty much. they were adults in 1979, did not seem to have any connection to michelle martinmartinko, deco collect dna from all three. this is when you become a double-o act. it is shifting gears here? it is shifting gears. they start with middle brother kevin, a married father of three, he sold farm equipment in manchester, iowa, about a 50-minute s drive from cedar rapids. we check his dna from a straw. it immediately goes to the state lab. they told us, hey, he is not your suspect. the next brother was donald. oldest brother donald was a father of three and had five grandchurn. he lived in davenport, iowa and the manager of a lumber yard before retiring. he went to his house and staked it out surreptitiously. the first thing we collected out of a trash bag and checked
honestly what happened to michelle stripped away not just our innocence, but the innocence of the whole town. it settled over the city, that michelle s killer may over in be caught. the 70s became the 80s and then the 90s. in 1997, they sent scrapings from the gearshift of michel s car to a state lab. the lab was able to sort out those dna points and left a dna profile. at the time it wasn t enough to match to a suspect. but in twoivgs doug larrison took over the case. he wondered if anything else from the car might yield a more complete dna profile and sent michelle s blood-stained dress back to the lab. got the call from the analyst they had found a full dna profile on the dress. that s exciting. that s and are you sitting
for easter dinner. and then the phone rings. and our sergeant called and he said, i m needing you to come in. we have chelsea s costume and wig. and i m thinking, are you sure? are you sure this is hers? he texted texted me a photograph of it and you get that feeling in your heart and stomach and you re like, wow, this is this is what we ve been lookin for for a long time. the costume had been ripped at the straps and the crotch. important? maybe. they sent it to the state lab for tests. and officers picked through the discarded junk on foot, by air, all day, and into the evening. and, right away, that easter sunday, the detectives brought erik kassab to the station for a talk. it s suspicious that he just happens to find this costume. he waited a week to call us. so, there s a lot of things that are looking kind of suspicious. just as erik had feared. did you go to that party by chance? no. tons of people went to this so we re trying to talk to everybod