so woloson was arrested and he was forced to provide an additional dna sample. that test left no doubt he was the source of the dna found on susan schumake. prosecutors cannot fathom a reason for susan schumake s murder. they believe woloson saw her walking alone along the dirt path and he decided to attack her. it was late in the day. no one heard or saw anything. he left behind his dna. then took her yellow backpack. stole $10 from her purse, dumped it in the creek, then dropped his bag with the pharmacy prescription in it not far away. it s that randomness that s so frightening. she wasn t stalked. she wasn t selected. she just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
and the campus worker found a small red bag with some toiletry items not far from where susan schumake was murdered. inside, police found some identification. he finds a pharmaceutical bottle that has the name daniel woloson, but it was prescribed as the menard correctional center. they did some checking on him and found that he was on parole, and so he became a person of interest. 21-year-old daniel woloson had recently been released from prison for a burglary conviction. he was a handyman working on campus at the time of the murder. he was working at the quad apartments which is probably about a quarter mile away from the crime scene. when questioned by police, woloson said he had an alibi for the night of susan schumake s murder that he was with a friend. and the officers took him to the various locations trying to find this person with whom he spent the night were
of a heart attack at the age of 40. although phillips bragged to his prison cell mate about killing three women, he never mentioned susan schumake, but her family still believed he was responsible. we thought that phillips was the murderer. and he went to jail and he died in jail. so my family consequently thought, well, this is done with. it s over. he s dead. others weren t so sure. for one thing, susan s murder was different from the others. most of his murders were under darkness. and that wasn t the situation with susan schumake. lieutenant paul echols was susan s classmate in college and had kept a picture from her case file on his desk. now, you could just look at that picture, you could see that this was a happy moment, a father standing with his daughter, very proud.
Transcripts for CNN Forensic Files 20140307 07:37:15 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
dna was way in the future. we had no witnesses. we didn t have much of anything to go on. but we felt pretty comfortable he might be our person. one year later, 24-year-old kathleen mcsherry was also found raped and stabbed in her apartment, again, john paul phillips lived in the neighborhood. again, no dna, no fingerprints. where s john paul now? well, it turned out he lived just a few blocks north. there had been insufficient evidence to arrest john paul phillips for either murder but in susan schumake s murder, police finally got a break. at susan s autopsy, the medical examiner found two foreign hairs on her body, presumably from her killer. one was a body hair, one was a pubic hair that was recovered from susan s body. phillips willingly provided hair samples for comparison. based on microscopic examination, phillip s hair was not similar. so he was eliminated as a