cold brew coffee 3 Cold Cases Recently Solved Using DNA

Nothing is sadder than hearing about cold cases that were never solved, but thanks to advances in DNA testing technology more and more cases are solved.

Today we are looking at 3 cases that was solved recently through the use of Genealogy website and DNA testing.
Story 1:

Michella Welch was a 12 year old girl living in Tacoma.

On the 26th of March 1986 she took her two younger sisters to Puget Park at 10am. Afterwards she went back home to make lunch for them.

When she returned to the park she could not find her sisters, they went to a nearby business to use the bathroom.

When the sisters returned Michella was nowhere to be seen. Scared, they called the police who immediately began a search.

At 11:30 that night a tracking dog found her body in a makeshift fire pit near the park. Her throat had been slit.

There was a couple suspects. A witness saw Michella talking to an unknown man at 1:30pm. 10 hours before her body was found.

The unknown man was described as possibly Hispanic, 25-35 years old, 5 feet 8 with black hair, a possible moustache and light-colored clothing.

A 13yo classmate would later say that he saw a man in the park that kept looking at Michella and her two sisters. He was described as white, 24 to 26 years old, 5 feet 9 and skinny. He was wearing a blue jean jacket with holes in it, blue jeans and old white tennis shoes.

Police suspected that convicted child killer David Fisher was involved in Michella's murder. He was arrested, but later ruled out of Michella's case.

The case went cold, that was until 2018. On June 20th 66 year old Gary Charles Hartman was arrested and charged with the murder of Michella.

Investigators used a forensic genealogy technique and uploaded the killers DNA to genealogy website. Hartman lived two miles from Puget Park in 1986. He had no criminal record and was working as a nurse prior to the murder.

Story 2:

Arlis Perry was a 19 year old woman from Stanford and had recently married. On the 12th of October 1974 Arlis and her husband was arguing over checking the tire pressure on their car.

Arlis told her husband she was going to pray at the church. At 3:30am the next morning she still hadn't returned and her husband got worried and called the police.

Two hours later the security guard at the church Stephen Blake Crawford made a gruesome discovery. The security guard found her body near the altar.

She was found face up. An ice pick was sticking out of the back of her head. There were also signs of strangulation. It was also noted that she was naked from the waist down.

The immediate suspects were the security guard and her husband. It could not be proved that either of them was the killer however.

Her husband would go on to remarry and became a renowned child trauma expert in Houston. Both her husband and the security guard cleared polygraph tests.

Police also thought that maybe it was a satanic cult murder. Consider the location and manner of death.

DNA testing technology was not available in 1974, but over the years the sheriff's department continued to submit evidence to the crime lab.

They found a palmprint on one of the candles in the church and with advances being made in DNA testing they matched it to Stephen Blake Crawford, the security guard.

Before they could arrest him however he committed suicide in his studio apartment by shooting himself on his bed.

Story 3:

December the 20th 1979 18 year old Michelle Martinko's body was found in her car in the parking lot of a shopping mall. The Kennedy High School senior was there to buy a new winter coat.

She was stabbed atleast eight times. Wounds on her hands showed that she fought with her killer. Since most of the stab wounds was on her face and nothing was stolen they reckoned the homicide was personal in nature.

The detectives found no weapons or fingerprints so they had nothing to go on.

Using newer technology however they realized that the killers blood was in the car too, so he must have cut his hand.

There were two witnesses who gave a pretty good description of the killer and they narrowed the suspects to 60 and decided to test them all.

The blood found in the car matched DNA of Jerry Lynn Burns who was 25 years old when he killed Michelle.

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