it was a week before the fall semester began in 1981. susan schumake moved back to the campus of southern illinois university at carbondale. she was anxious to start her senior year. she had just gotten a job at the radio station, and she was going to be doing some of the broadcast work. sue schumake, section three, description, narration and dialogue. on august 17th, susan left the radio station just before 6:00 p.m. she planned to meet her girlfriend for dinner. but she never arrived. the friend who she was supposed to have supper with called her roommate, mary. mary did not know where she was at. later into the night, approaching midnight, they started calling all their friends. they went to places where they thought she might have gone.
digestive core.r so choose ultimate flora by renewlife. it has 30 billion probiotic cultures. feel lighter and more energized. ultimate flora. more power to your gut. within days of susan schumake s murder, john paul phillips topped the list of suspects. he was known about town as kind of a hellion. i met him early in his life. he was had a terrible temper. i met him when he was perhaps 15 or 16 years old in a fight. he tried to beat some kid to death with a baseball bat. phillips had been a suspect in the rape and murder of two other southern illinois university students five years earlier. 21-year-old theresa clark was found raped and murdered in her apartment off campus. at the time, john paul phillips lived in an apartment about 100 feet away.
cigarette butts out the window. so these are, like, when i bought the car. there were more than a dozen cigarette butts. police hoped at least one was from daniel woloson. they gave the evidence to dna analyst jennifer andrew. what i gathered from speaking with the investigator in charge, there was a homicide about 20 years ago of a college student. and you know, me being recently out of college, it was a little bit personal for me. one by one, andrew cut open the cigarette filters, often a good source of dna. because that s where all the saliva and skin cells would be deposited. the samples were treated with a solvent that separates the dna. a profile was generated from an unknown male. the profile was sent to illinois for comparison with the 20-year-old genetic material left at susan schumake s murder. and it matched daniel woloson.
a father standing with his daughter. very proud. and knowing the story that i knew by that time, that she had been murdered, it was something that always held my attention. by the year 2000, almost two decades after susan s murder, a new dna process called pcr made it possible to test a small biological sample, where in the past, much larger samples were needed. essentially, that process is just xeroxing dna. so we re just copying the specific portions of dna that we re interested in analyzing. so analysts tested the small biological sample taken from susan schumake s autopsy and were able to identify the dna profile of the killer. john paul phillips dna sample was not on file, so investigators took the extraordinary step of requesting that the state exhume his body.
paul echols was convinced he was closing in on susan schumake s killer. but only dna could prove it. and the suspect, daniel woloson, wasn t willing to provide it. so michigan state police decid they d take his dna in a perfectly legal manner. they decided to run surveillance on him. the whole purpose was to try to get something that might have daniel woloson s dna so we could either identify him or eliminate him. it wasn t easy. since woloson worked in an auto parts salvage yard, only other employees could get close to him without arousing suspicion. then police learned he had recently sold his car. and they knew he smoked cigarettes. so they traced the car to its new owner. they asked him about the cigarette butts in the ashtray. he says, well, i don t smoke, and all my friends throw their