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We had a new lead. the dna from jenni s swimsuit. a brand new piece of evidence. it might lead them to her killer. but when they entered that into the national database, no match. once again, they seemed to be right back where they started. you re just in the hurry-up-and-wait mode. you re waiting for your offender to get their dna in the database, because of a conviction or whatever. and that could be a long wait. in 2014, gene miller retired. leaving detective wade in charge of the cold-case unit. and she had a new helper. jenni s mom, pattie. 29 years after her daughter s murder. my career was winding down. i thought i should probably do something. and so, i volunteered to help. pattie wasn t allowed to touch the two girls murder files, but she could help in other ways. ....
Jenni s mom. by that time, had you grown pretty close to pattie? uh-huh. yeah. she is a very special gal. i told her mother, i m going to adopt her. before she left, wade sent one last, small batch of samples to the dna lab. no point, really, in waiting for the results. we are down to the last 18. i m doubtful that we re going to get a match. so, she said good-bye and went on with her life. and 25 days later. my phone buzzed, and i looked down. it was her replacement on the cold-case unit. i answer the phone, and he said, there s a match on jennifer bastian. i asked, who who is it? what s the name? and he said, robert washburn? and i was like, no way. i knew exactly who it was. but i just couldn t believe it. robert washburn. he was the guy who phoned in a tip about michella s murder. he was never a suspect. on her short list, only because of that genealogy analysis. why did washburn s name end up on the list to be tested for dna? because of his last name. ....
We had a new lead. the dna from jenni s swimsuit. a brand new piece of evidence. it might lead them to her killer. but when they entered that into the national database, no match. once again, they seemed to be right back where they started. you re just in the hurry-up-and-wait mode. you re waiting for your offender to get their dna in the database, because of a conviction or whatever. and that could be a long wait. in 2014, gene miller retired. leaving detective wade in charge of the cold-case unit. and she had a new helper. jenni s mom, pattie. 29 years after her daughter s murder. my career was winding down. i thought i should probably do something. and so, i volunteered to help. pattie wasn t allowed to touch the two girls murder files, but she could help in other ways. ....
Suspects, up until the point that they were eliminated. a year of dna tests and not a single match. it was enough to wear any detective down, even one as passionate as lindsey wade. she had given her best. but now, she d made a tough decision. it was time for me to move on. in the spring of 2018, lindsey wade retired from the tacoma pd. working on cold cases is, typically, more frustrating than rewarding. because you can work and work and work and work, and do a ton of investigation. and come up with zero. and then, walk away? yeah. she had investigated both jenni and michella s cases for years. and saying good-bye wasn t easy. especially, to jenni s mom. by that time, had you grown pretty close to pattie? uh-huh. yeah. she is a very special gal. i told her mother, i m going to ....
And that s to cause harm. the system has caused harm by what s called mass incarceration. gardner followed through on the promises. she issued warrants for just 23% of the cases brought by the st. louis police. sorrows also funded philadelphia, kim fox in chicago, and george in l.a. there are no campaign finance limits on these local elections so soros is free to spend millions on them. and he s not the only one doing it. in san francisco, some of the richest people in the country got elected d.a. a pac supporting his campaign received a million bucks from the wife of dustin moskovitz who co-founded facebook. they want to ignore the laws on the books. one big supporter of the group is pattie the wife of ....