window there. denlinger and his partners went in and signed a. both you re in the next move over? and then closer him as you and i are right now. you ve got to be thinking, this is my color? yeah, it s hard to enjoy your food when you think you re staring at the color. burns was drinking a soda from a straw. denlinger didn t take his ivs off of it, making sure nobody else touched it. then he and his son leave, they drive away from the pizza ranch. we grab the cup off the table. my partner put some gloves on, grabs the straw and the glass, package it up, and we disappear. the sample was sent for testing. it was the moment of truth. jerry was not one of the last burns brother, he was the last possible suspect. denlinger we ll never forget the moment he spoke to his contact at the crime lab. he says, that s your guy. he s the color? he s the killer. the lab reported that the scientific probability was 100
cool with slumped halfway off the passenger seat at the families buick electra. she had multiple stab wounds. doug larsson was a college freshman when michel was killed. matt denlinger only in kindergarten. but years later, as cedar rapids investigators, they d come to know every detail of this case. very frenzied to attack. there was blood everywhere. there was blood spatter all over the inside of the car. did the color leave a blood trail away from the scene? did you get lucky in that? we know. there s no luxurious away from the scene. for that killer did leave some signatures. the officers found love prince on the outside of the car, in the dirt, on the door handle. they love looked like dishwashing gloves from the late seventies, early eighties, that everyone would have in their house. so, the killer came to do business? oh, yeah. the color came to do business. michel had warily deep defense of wounds on her hands. she put up a fight. the blood told them the str
the family name was burns and all three brothers were adults in 1979. but did not seem to have any connection to michelle martinko. investigator math denlinger and two colleagues decided to secretly connect dna from all three. so, this is when you become a double agent. it s really shifting gears here? it is shifting gears. they track the brothers one at a time, starting with middle brother kenneth. a married father of three, he sold from equipment in manchester, iowa. about a 50-minute drive from cedar rapids. the collected his dna from a straw and it immediately goes to the state lab. they told us, hey, he is not your suspect. the next brother was donald. this brother donald, was a father of three and had five grandchildren. he lived in davenport, iowa, and was the manager of a lumber yards before retiring. went denlinger to his house and staked it out surreptitiously. the first time we corrected was out of the trash by the set by the curb.
we found a toothbrush in there and collected some dna off of that. and what did the lab think about his genetic material? they said the same thing. he s not your guy? he s not your guy. it came down to the youngest brother, jerry burns, who like brother can t, worked lived and worked in manchester. denlinger did some intel on him. in 1979 he had two young kids. he lived in manchester. he sold farm implements. was in a bowling lead. so, these married with children, 9 to 5 guy? yeah. on an october morning in 2018, denlinger and his team set out for manchester in three unmarked cars. so jerry s places right out here? it s in seconds is going to come up on us, in no. time police followed him throughout the morning. finally, at lunchtime and opportunity. burns and his son had pulled into the pizza ranch restaurant. he parked in the parking lot there and he went in and i was sitting at a booth right by the
but then his store manager for the white mall was on the line. she told detectives kurt had gone on break, return to the store at around 9:30, and helped her close up shop about ten. police believed michelle left them all sometime in that half hour. this detective said mr. thomas, you can go. i didn t know what that meant. as stupid as that is to say, can i really go? for the moment, at least, kurt was in the clear. in fact, michelle brother-in-law s, john, already had someone else in mind for her murder. old boyfriend andy. he was he was very possessive after they broke up. he parked down the street sections when it was someone else. he drive fast around the block. so, i was pretty sure it was andy. if i can t have her, nobody can have her type of thing. sure enough, andy was brought in for questioning. matt denlinger and doug harrison understood why the first detectives took a hard look andy. and he was at the mall that.