her mission. so how many names did you have? about 2,300 names. could cutting-edge technology crack an ice-cold case? i was like, no way. i believe in the devil, and people that don t believe in the devil, i think, they re in for a big surprise. hello and welcome to dateline. michella and jenni were just like most kids their age. they loved riding bikes, and playing outdoors. the fun-loving girls didn t know each other. but they would be forever connected, through tragedy. decades later, a detective would leave no stone unturned, on a quest for justice. and in the process, uncovered a twist that left investigators speechless. here is keith morrison with evil was watching. again and again, she came here. stood under the ancient canopy. walked the damp, narrow paths, to the places the killer used to hide what he had done. as if looking, once more, after all these years would tell her something. as if the dense undergrowth would part and finally reveal a name
we had a new lead. the dna from jenni s swimsuit. a brand new piece of evidence. it might lead them to her killer. but when they entered that into the national database, no match. once again, they seemed to be right back where they started. you re just in the hurry-up-and-wait mode. you re waiting for your offender to get their dna in the database, because of a conviction or whatever. and that could be a long wait. in 2014, gene miller retired. leaving detective wade in charge of the cold-case unit. and she had a new helper. jenni s mom, pattie. 29 years after her daughter s murder. my career was winding down. i thought i should probably do something. and so, i volunteered to help. pattie wasn t allowed to touch the two girls murder files, but she could help in other ways.
we had a new lead. the dna from jenni s swimsuit. a brand new piece of evidence. it might lead them to her killer. but when they entered that into the national database, no match. once again, they seemed to be right back where they started. you re just in the hurry-up-and-wait mode. you re waiting for your offender to get their dna in the database, because of a conviction or whatever. and that could be a long wait. in 2014, gene miller retired. leaving detective wade in charge of the cold-case unit. and she had a new helper. jenni s mom, pattie. 29 years after her daughter s murder. my career was winding down. i thought i should probably do something. and so, i volunteered to help. pattie wasn t allowed to touch the two girls murder files, but she could help in other ways.
volunteered to help. pattie wasn t allowed to touch the two girls murder files but she could help in other ways. and we just hit it off. she was so supportive, and so positive. and just volunteered for anything she could do to help us, make our jobs easier. round then, detective wade decided to try something new. with the crime-scene dna. she consulted this woman. dr. colleen fitzpatrick. an expert in something called forensic genealogy. an informal sense, it s been referred as csi meets roots. maybe you have taken a home-dna test. a lot of people have. you can sometimes track down distant relatives by uploading your dna profile to public genealogy websites. dr. fitzpatrick searches all that dna data, to find, not