accent. and from the words that the man used, a pre-harriel analysts gave detectives a profile. the offender was not well educated, was kind of a loner, likely employed in the construction trades. even better, the victims described his vehicle so well that detectives figured out the make and model. it is most likely a 2005 to 2006 toyota tacoma extended cap, four wheel drive pick up. and the victim gave police other crucial clues. she saw a baby she on the floor of the car, and there are something else that made the suspect stand out. when he was done, she said, the man took her underwear and kept it. but even more important, police were able to obtain a sample of her attacker s dna, and one of the crime lab compared that simple with the one they took off the back door at mackey court, it was a match. that s what we knew it was
but he told his girlfriend that he had been laid off. detectives told out the very next day, be loved told him and later sold his extended cab pickup. eight months later, he returned to reno in a new truck. that is when his girlfriend discovered that underwear. now, finally, the dna results came back on james dealers son, and confirmed what detectives already felt in their got. the child was 99% certain to have been a biological son of the unidentified suspect. the following day, when the law went to pickup his son at a daycare center, detectives arrested him. i placed my car, and said to him james you are under arrest for the murder of breonna thompson. it was a good feeling. coming up, the suspect s girlfriend asked questions. did you do this?
of death was strangulation. it was a sexually motivated crime. all i can say to that is at least i am not waiting, four years later, wondering. that is about the only positive i can get out of it. back at that field, detectives found something that looked like the killer s calling card. they were two sets of panties that were on her right side, tucked underneath the right side. thong underwear, one pink and one black, with an image of the pink panther cartoon character. crime lab technicians tested everything and determined that neither pair of underwear belonged to brianna. the pink panther underwear had dna from an unknown person, but the other pair. they were identified by forensic dna evidence as having
following more than 4000 leads. all of them, dead ends. but one day of in november of 2008, ten months into 2008, the detective was coming through yet another stack of tips, and one of them caught his eye. one thing to struck me as odd, because they are talking about underwear. the anonymous tip was about a woman who had found someone else s thong underwear in her boyfriend s truck. do they have a name? they said the last name was beulah, and had a first name that started with aj. a drivers license search produced a name. about the right age. physical description. you look at his photo? the airy part was, when i obtained that photograph and from the initial sketch that we had from the forensic sketch artist, it was eerily similar. it seemed an interesting