she is the definition of grit. she didn t give up. he s hurting me. the details that she gave. it was unbelievable. she said, you did it. i said, no, you did. route 66 once stretched across the southwest from one horizon to the next, going from what america was to what it wanted to be. cities like albuquerque, new mexico, were celebrated stops along the journey. today buildings that once lined this part of the iconic highway had faded and closed as the cottonwood mall became the new downtown. the mall was the big hangout. i met my husband at the mall. so did i. it has played a pivotal part in our lives. for the marcell sisters, all six of them, along with their brother, jonathan, the cottonwood mall in albuquerque was the center of their social lives. 17-year-old brittani worked at a sunglasses kiosk. she is this blue-eyed girl with a big eyes and a striking smile. everything was good, until september 11th, 2008, brittani just starting her senior yea
she is the definition of grit. she didn t give up. he s hurting me. the details that she gave. it was unbelievable. she said, you did it. i said, no, you did. route 66 once stretched across the southwest from one horizon to the next, going from what america was to what it wanted to be. cities like albuquerque, new mexico, were celebrated stops along the journey. today buildings that once lined this part of the iconic highway faded and closed as the cotton wood mall became the new downtown. the mall was the big hangout. i met my husband at the mall. so did i. it has played a pivotal part in our lives. for the marcell sisters, all six of them, along with their brother, jonathan, the cotton wood mall in albuquerque was important in their lives. 17-year-old brittani worked at a sunglasses kiosk. she is this blue-eyed girl with a big eyes and a striking mile. everything was good, until september 11th, 2008, brittani just starting high school had planned
Parabon sketch, the dna tests, over. a case that took 9 years to get to court was resolved in a matter of hours. you had a really tough decision to make in this case to to go to trial or to take this deal. how did you ultimately come up with your decision? i mean i wanted to go to trial, i wanted to clear my name, but i just felt like the odds were against me. and i didn t wanna chance, you know, 58 to 60 years away from my kids. and that was kind of what pushed me into the plea. so the plea was not about an admission of guilt necessarily, but for you it was more about being there someday for your children? that s exactly what it was for. it was, like, 60 years or 18 years with a chance of being out in nine or less. my youngest will only be 11 and i can still be there for her and try to help guide her through stuff.
yes, so this is from blood found on the crime scene. so we find that this person, you, know has very fair skin. so this is a white male? it s a fair skin mail. pretty confident in. that this person has light brown hair, so long to brown. so that is sort of on the lighter brown side. at most likely doesn t have a lot of freckles. there was one detail in john those profile that turned out to be crucial information. the color of his eyes. remember brittani s description of john doe? we round eyes. well, it turns out she was wrong. john those eyes weren t brown. we found that this person has green to hazel eyes, which is unique. fairly unique. very unusual, yes. green eyes, the same colors justin hansen. and the sketch itself, here it is. when we saw that, i was like, oh my god. it was that close. it was.
it s amazing. the company behind this new crime-fighting tool is parabon where they do something called dna phenotyping. it s essentially a genetic witness. dr. ellen greytak is parabon s director of bioinformatics. how does it work, in laymen s terms? how can you take dna and make a sketch? well, you focus on those traits that are passed down from parent to child. so if you think about, when you say, oh, you have your mother s eyes. well, you have your mother s eyes because you have your mother s dna. and we can figure out, well, this piece of dna we see in blue-eyed people, but not in brown eyed people. so all your features are connected to your dna. absolutely. parabon started off by helping the u. s. military create dna profiles from the remains of insurgent bombmakers during the iraq war. it wasn t long before cold case detectives were sending them