And offered her a ride. He then attempted a sexual advance, which sierra either rejected or she may have asked for money. Russell exploded, and sierra found herself fighting for her life. Police believe russell used a Tire Iron from his car as the murder weapon. Sierra scratched him during this altercation, creating the microscopic Dna Evidence that would ultimately produce the virtual image and Land Russell in jail. Bouzigard im proud of her. I knew she was a fighter. I knew she was, and she got that from me. She got something good from me. Armentrout the dna was there at the crime. Its a matter of interrogating the dna intelligently and rendering the output in a fashion thats useful to the police. Narrator in july of 2017, Blake Russell was charged with seconddegree murder. While awaiting trial, he hanged himself in his jail cell,
Can katie sleep over tonight . Sure, honey this generation is so dramatic move with xfinity. Narrator sierra Bouzigards Murder had all the earmarks of a random attack, a strangeruponstranger killing that are always the hardest to solve. Mancuso normally we get four to six homicides a year. Very seldom do we have a whodunit. Normally its domestic in nature or a Drug Deal gone bad
That the Human Genome combined with massive Computer Power could actually tell investigators what someone looked like just from their dna. Detectives believed sierra Bouzigards Killer was an undocumented mexican worker. But there was no clear description of the suspect. Monica quaal raced to tell her fellow investigators that this new technology could provide that description. I really think that shes crazy. She was like, you just have to have faith in me. I was like, i have faith in you, but this just kind of seems like magic. And shes like, no, its gonna work. And so she convinced me and then we convinced the sheriff. Narrator parabon got the unidentified Dna Sample from Sierras Case and put it through a process they call snapshot. Snapshot is a way to take that dna and ask it questions. Okay, if we dont know exactly who this person is, do we know his ancestry . Can we say something about eye color, hair color, skin color, freckling, face shape
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But that information is just coming from the dna. Narrator of course, you cant tell how a person parts their hair or if they have tattoos or scars or their exact age. But in dozens of cases, snapshot has used dna to put a face where none existed before. If you reflect on what were doing, it shouldnt sound like science fiction. Narrator the chief suspect in Sierras Murder was a mexican construction worker. But investigators were in for a shock. This was the image snapshot created of the man who killed sierra bouzigard. He wasnt hispanic. He was caucasian with blue eyes. This meant they had been looking for the wrong man for six long years. Mancuso it was a stepback moment. It was literally, holy crap, what just took place here . Were not even looking in the right direction. Mcgee when you first see that sketch, it just its unbelievable, and youre like,