three brothers. we think one of them is the color. that they didn t know which one. so, you ve got a live one? we ve got live one here. what do you think at that moment? we re ecstatic. we re ready to go. he was sitting at a booth right by the window. there you are the next ? it s hard to enjoy your food when you think you re staring at that killer. hello and welcome to dateline . teenager michelle martinko was blessed with beauty, brings and compassion. but her promising future was cut short when she was savagely murdered. that dreadful night was ice cold, and after four decades, so was her case. then, a stunning scientific breakthrough helped detectives whittled down a list of suspects to unmask a killer hiding in plain sight. here s dennis murphy with and then there were three . it was an act of unspeakable violence. it was a really horrific crime. everybody was scared. a murder that shattered a family. my parents were devastated. my mother ev
eye. she got everyone s eye. she didn t come home that night. there was blood everywhere. there was blood splatter all over the inside of the car. it was very frenzied attack. the theories were just awful. drug rings, prostitute rings. and the entire town was going crazy. i thought eventually, enough people were gonna come across a suspect. it was fascinating how they went about the investigation. we got a call, we ve got three brothers. we think one of them is the color. that they didn t know which one. so, you ve got a live one? we ve got live one here. what do you think at that moment? we re ecstatic. we re ready to go. he was sitting at a booth right by the window. . there. you are the next ? it s hard to enjoy your food when you think you re staring at that killer. hello and welcome to dateline . teenager michelle martinko was blessed with beauty, brings and compassion. but her promising future was cut short when she was savagely murdered
people were gonna come across a suspect. it was fascinating how they went about the investigation. we got a call, we ve got three brothers. we think one of them is the color. that they didn t know which one. so, you ve got a live one? we ve got live one here. what do you think at that moment? we re ecstatic. we re ready to go. he was sitting at a booth right by the window. there you are the next ? it s hard to enjoy your food when you think you re staring at that killer. hello and welcome to dateline . teenager michelle martinko was blessed with beauty, brings and compassion. but her promising future was cut short when she was savagely murdered. that dreadful night was ice cold, and after four decades, so was her case. then, a stunning scientific breakthrough helped detectives whittled down a list of suspects to unmask a killer hiding in plain sight. here s dennis murphy with and then there were three . it was an act of unspeakable violence. it w
Double, rescue workers are continuing the round the clock search for any remaining survivors. and now, back to dateline. welcome back to dateline . i m craig melvin. michelle martinko s unsold murder marked a loss of innocence for her friends and family. but not a loss of hope. cold case detectives were determined to catch the killer using a modern arsenal of tools. the same technology used to crack a legendary case in california, was about to reveal a tantalizing clue. back to dennis murphy with and then there were three . the decades old investigation into michelle martinko s 1979 murder had emergency. detective doug larsson had a dna profile of the killer and
Not just our innocence that the innocence of the whole town. it settled over the city. the thought that michelle s killer might never be caught. the seventies became the eighties, and then the nineties. the dawn of dna testing finally gave police new hope. in 1997, they sent scrapings from that gearshift of michelle s car off to a state lab. the lab was able to sort out all of those dna points and left a partial meal the any profile. at the time, it was an enough to match to a suspect. but in 2005, doug larsson took over the case. he wondered if anything else from the car might yield a more complete dna profile. he sent michelle s blood stained dress back to the state crime lab. got the phone call from the lab analysts that they had found a full dna profile on the dress, which was very exciting. that s a pretty exciting phone call? that s great.