A Colorado man accused of killing and sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl in Newport Beach in 1973 pleaded not guilty Friday to a murder charge, along with.
family treat back to the early 18 hundreds. so, you re looking through all historical records, census data absolutely. tombstones? tombstones. anything we can find. created four branches of the family, going back to great, great grandparents. the first branch lead to someone living in ohio. denlinger got a dna sample. we sent their dna back to parabon, and they recalibrated and told us that we can eliminate that branch of the family tree. don t waste your time on that tree. do we certainly. that that person shares no dna with your color. this one here, we wonder in nebraska. and said that one in. same thing. boom. get rid of that one. we don t need to worry about that branch of the family tree. on the next branch, denlinger found a relative living in iowa. so, you got a live one here at the bottom of the street? we ve got lies one here. this was a gal in lisbon, iowa, she s only 20 minutes where. she s not your color of
course? definitely not the color. we all see the color was a man. we took a dna and sent it to parabon. boom. she shares enough with that color to be a first cousin. it turns out the woman sheer dna with three first cousins. three brothers. after four decades and so many disappointments, a suspect list had narrowed to three. all three of them are still alive, still living in iowa. what do you think at that moment? we are ecstatic. you can taste it at that point. we re ready to go. detectives are about to get up close and personal with the three brothers, without them knowing it. coming up and he and his son leave, we grab the cup off his table. my partner put some gloves on, grabs the straw, the glass, packages it up. and we disappear. then, not a confession, but not eternal, either. what happened that night? did you murder that night someone that night, jerry?
the next thing we were doing is crying and hugging each other. yeah. after 32 years, jenni s alleged killer was finally in custody. but what about michella s murderer? his identity was, still, a mystery. of the 160 men, whose dna was tested, none matched. did you get to the point where you thought this is just we re just live with this? never going to be solved? yeah. oh, yeah. whether it was solved or not, was never going to bring her back. but i did not ever want that to happen to other children. so in my mind, it would be a great idea to find this guy. remember, back in 2016, parabon made a sketch based on the suspect s d in a but it didn t lead to a suspect. so,
crime-fighting tool is parabon dnaphenotyping. it s essentially a genetic witness. dr. ellen greytak is parabon s director of bioinformatics. how does it work, in laymen s terms? how can you take dna and make a sketch? well, you focus on those traits that are passed down from parent to child. so if you think about, when you say, oh, you have your mother s eyes. well, you have your mother s eyes because you have your mother s dna. and we can figure out, well, this piece of dna we see in blue-eyed people. so all your features are connected to your dna. absolutely. parabon started off by helping the u.s. military create dna profiles from the remains of insurgent bombmakers during the iraq war. it wasn t long before cold case detectives were sending them e-mails looking for help, as well.