DNA: ID

Episode 123 Doe ID: Melissa Highsmith This Doe ID episode is a bit different from most other ones, because the victim in this case is alive and well. In August, 1971, when Melissa Highsmith was just 22 months old, her mother Alta; desperate for a babysitter, allowed a stranger she didn't know to watch over her little girl in Fort Worth, Texas. Alta was terrified when the woman never contacted her...

Episode 122 Patricia Stichler Part 2 of 2 This is the conclusion of the Patricia Stichler case. If you have not listened to part 1 yet, please stop now and go back and listen to that part first.   To listen to every episode of DNA: ID ad-free and get other benefits, simply   visit our channel page  on Apple Podcasts to get started with an AbJack Insider subscription. Of course, you can also suppor...

Episode 122 Patricia Stichler Part 1 of 2   New Years' Day 1985 should have rung in an exciting new year for Patti Stichler and her three young daughters.   Instead, in the middle of the night on January 1-2, someone slashed and stabbed Patti to death in her bedroom.   Her three girls, ages 11, 9 and 6, were in their bedrooms just feet away.   The oldest, Andrea, was the one to find her mom, and a...

Episode 121 Doe: ID 'Oscar Talley Road Jane Doe' Shawna Beth Garber  In December, 1990, a couple discovered a human skull on an abandoned farm on Oscar Talley Road near Lanagan, Missouri. A search of the area by police revealed more bones, and clothing. The remains were determined to be that of a woman, but she carried no ID. A white towel had been wrapped around the woman's head, and she was tied...

Episode 120 Melinda Salazar and Carrole Ann White  Starting in 2017, someone started killing women in southwest Detroit, MI.   The killer struck at night, and always used the same weapon – his car.   Detroit police realized that they had a serial killer on their hands. His MO was always the same – pick up a white, female sex worker; have a sexual encounter with her in his vehicle; and then, run he...

Episode 119 Doe: ID 'Chimney Doe' Ronnie Joe Kirk  In 1989, a custodian in a music store in Madison, Wisconsin discovered human remains in the chimney. At first, it was not clear that the remains were of a male or female, and remnants on clothing though to be a dress fueled confusion. An expert told police that the remains certainly belonged to a man, but since there was no ID with the body, they...

Episode 118 Donna Sue Hyatt Donna Sue Hyatt was a loving daughter, sister, mother and grandmother who faced some challenges in life. She relied on her friends, family and faith to help her put a smile on her face every day, and she was always friendly, chatty and sunny – until someone murdered her on her living room floor. There were plenty of suspects both in Donna Sue's life and in the larger Ca...

Episode 117 Doe ID: 'Rhinelander John Doe' Norman Grasser   On March 19,1980, a deceased man was found off of Highway 17, between Rhinelander and Eagle River in Wisconsin. He carried no ID, and the authorities came to the conclusion that he had died as a result of hypothermia, perhaps after falling in the cold and never waking up. The man didn't appear to have the ideal clothing or shoes for walki...

Episode 116 Terry Paquette Terry Paquette worked 60+ hours a week as manager of the Lil Champ convenience store on Clarcona Ocoee Road in Lockhart, FL.   It was there that he was stabbed 73 times in the store bathroom in 1996.   The investigation was approached from several angles, including that Terry was slain in the course of a robbery, or that he was killed in a hate crime.   Detectives invest...

Episode 115 Doe ID 'Rock Collection John Doe' Captain Everett Leland Yager   A strange mystery unfolded after a boy in Arizona inherited a rock collection from his grandfather in 2002. The boy's mother while looking through the collection found something disturbing; something she knew was not a rock. It was a partial human jawbone containing several teeth. She contacted the Yavapai County Sheriff'...

Episode 114 Michella Welch In this episode we cover the conclusion of the Michella Welch case.   If you haven't listened to the Jenni Bastian case, (ep113) please go listen to that one first, as many details about Michella's case are addressed there.   Michella would finally see justice of her own in 2022, nearly 40 years after her murder became inseparably linked to Jenni Bastian's.   And, we tal...

Episode 113 Jennifer Bastian Part 2 of 2 This is the conclusion of the Jennifer Bastian case. If you have not listened to part 1 yet, stop now and go back and listen to that part first.  To listen to every episode of DNA: ID ad-free and get other benefits, simply   visit our channel page  on Apple Podcasts to get started with an AbJack Insider subscription. Of course, you can also support DNA: ID...

Episode 113 Jennifer Bastian Part 1 of 2    On March 4 th , 1986, the unthinkable happened for the Bastian family of Tacoma, WA.   Their sweet, energetic and athletic little girl Jenni, age 13, didn't come home from a bike training session in Point Defiance Park.   Police believed Jenni and her bike had been taken from the park by a predator, and the FBI counseled the family to await a ransom call...

Episode 112 Doe: ID Possible LISK Victims Karen Vergata and Valerie Mack During the 1990's and 2000's, the remains of several murder victims; mostly female sex workers, were found on Long Island's beaches. To police it seemed clear that they were the victims of a serial killer, or even more frightening, two serial killers who were dumping victims in the same area. The killer or killers, were given...

Episode 111 Lindy Sue Biechler Part 2 of 2 This is the second part of the Lindy Sue Biechler case. If you have not listened to part 1 yet, stop now and go back to listen to part 1 first.    To listen to every episode of DNA: ID ad-free and get other benefits, simply   visit our channel page  on Apple Podcasts to get started with an AbJack Insider subscription. Of course, you can also support DNA:...

Episode 111 Lindy Sue Biechler Part 1 of 2   The vicious, brutal 1975 stabbing murder of sweet, shy newlywed Lindy Sue Biechler haunted Lancaster, PA.   Lindy was stabbed 19 times right inside her front door, and a butcher knife left embedded in her neck, and police couldn't determine any motive in the case.   The 19 year old had no enemies, and no one had seen or heard anything.   It was consider...

Episode 110 Doe ID: Mary Alice Pultz Jenkins In April, 1985, the skeltonised remains of a woman were discovered in a shallow grave on Crescent Beach, 50 miles south of Jacksonville,Florida. There was no identifcation, and no missing persons in the area matched the remains. Police quickly ruled the death a homicide but had very little clues to go on, other than some extensive injuries the victim ha...

Nancy Brophy fills her novels with romantic betrayals and murder. It's a far cry from her quiet life in the suburbs, where she and her chef husband, Dan, are living out their golden years. But when Dan is shot dead, Nancy finds herself at the center of a murder case that could be ripped from the pages of her novels.   From Wondery, this is a story about what happens when the line blurs between fic...

Episode 109 DNA ID Rewind: The Case of Troy and LaDonna French  As host Jessica travels to and from the annual Crimecon convention, whether you have listened to every episode of the show, or just found it, Jessica invites listeners to check out this rewind episode from the DNA: ID vault; the case of Troy and LaDonna French, one of her personal favorite episodes. It's a re-release of episode 32. Je...

Episode 108 Eric Goldstrand and Lliana Adank Part This is the conclusion of the Goldstrand/Adank case. If you have not listened to part 1 yet, stop now and go back and listen to that part first.  To listen to every episode of DNA: ID ad-free and get other benefits, simply   visit our channel page  on Apple Podcasts to get started with an AbJack Insider subscription. Of course, you can also support...

Episode 108 Eric Goldstrand and Lliana Adank Part 1 of 2   When 16 year old high schoolers Eric Goldstrand and Lliana Adank were shot to death in at the popular Fall Creek recreation area in June 1977, residents of the teens' hometown of Eugene, Oregon were shocked and devastated.   There were hundreds of witnesses, tips, and leads… a surplus of information that led investigators nowhere.   Suspec...

Episode 107 Doe:ID Jeffrey Kimzey  On April 15, 1997, a young boy in Union Grove, Alabama decided to skip school and go fishing at his favorite spot off of Eagle Rock Drive. When he got to his spot, he made a gruesome discovery. He found a decomposing body in the water, and raced home to tell his parents. Police responded to the scene, and when they retrieved the body from the water, the gruesome...

Episode 106 Rita Curran Part 2 of 2 This is the conclusion of the Rita Curran case. If you did not listen to part 1 yet, stop now and go back and listen to that part first.  To listen to every episode of DNA: ID ad-free and get other benefits, simply   visit our channel page  on Apple Podcasts to get started with an AbJack Insider subscription. Of course, you can also support DNA: ID with a  Patre...

Episode 106 Rita Curran Part 1 of 2 The brutal 1971 murder of Rita Curran in her own bedroom rocked the tight-knit town of Burlington, Vermont.   The circumstances of Rita's death seemed so random – yet pointed to an insider. The mystifying slaying had no apparent motive and no good leads, and perplexed generations of frustrated investigators.   The case was so out there, Ted Bundy was considered...

Episode 105 DOE: ID 'Mary Jane Doe' Tabetha Slain Murlin In may, 1992, a construction worker renovating a home in Fort Wayne, Indiana made a gruesome discovery. In the flooded basement of the home, he discovered a woman's body wrapped in a blanket. Investigators were unable to determine an exact cause of death due to the condition of her remains, although they did make one important discovery; she...