blood spatter inside the car. it was a frenzied attack. the theories were awful. drug drug rings, prostitution rings. the town was going crazy. are going to come across the suspect. it was fascinating how they went about the investigation. we got a call and there s three brothers and we think one is a killer. we ve got a live one here. what do you think? we are ecstatic. he was sitting at a booth by the window. it s hard to enjoy your food when you think you are staring at the killer. hello, welcome to dateline. teenager michelle martinko was blessed with beauty, brains, and compassion. 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 whittle down a list of suspects to unmask a killer hiding in plain sight. here is dennis murphy with and to then there were three. it was an act of unspeakable violence. it w
you can see. pretty much. they were adults in 1979, did not seem to have any connection to michelle martinmartinko, deco collect dna from all three. this is when you become a double-o act. it is shifting gears here? it is shifting gears. they start with middle brother kevin, a married father of three, he sold farm equipment in manchester, iowa, about a 50-minute s drive from cedar rapids. we check his dna from a straw. it immediately goes to the state lab. they told us, hey, he is not your suspect. the next brother was donald. oldest brother donald was a father of three and had five grandchurn. he lived in davenport, iowa and the manager of a lumber yard before retiring. he went to his house and staked it out surreptitiously. the first thing we collected out of a trash bag and checked
it is. no, no, no, we did. how would it be there, jerry? i don t know. what happened that night? did you murder someone that night? test the dna. terry? test the dna. it wasn t the confession denlinger was hoping for. he didn t think it was a denial either. so 39 years to the day, jerry burns was cuffed and placed under arrest. you have the right to remain silent. anything you say can be used against you in a court of law. the charge was first degree murder, for jerry burns daughter jennifer and brother donald, the news was a gut pun palm beach, impossible to comprehand. it almost seems like a dream that it wasn t really happening, it wasn t really true. could you believe it? no, my brother said dad s been arrested for murder, just like who? i was so in disbelief. the arrest just didn t square