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25 year old foreign school teacher Irene Garza prepares to leave her parents' house to confess It was Holy Saturday before Holy Week Irene was very pious the church was extremely important to her one of her last phone calls and I spoke to Irene The last thing he said was I have a call to see if they are still confessing because it's a little late. Irene borrows her parents' car to drive the 12 blocks to her family's church in McAllen, Texas. We were all listening to music when one of her cousins ​​walked up. you walked in and you knew instantly by his face that something was wrong he asked them to turn off all the music and told us that Irene was missing let's all go to church together his car is still parked there what happened Irene was observed by many witnesses at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church They saw her walking from her car to the church They saw her in line at the confessional after eight that night No one sees Irene again Irene was the first Mexican-American gyrator in the McAllen High School band that she had never had Before she became somewhat iconic in college with her beauty, her charm, and her friendliness, she graduated from college, became a teacher in a Mexican-American neighborhood with kids who really needed help.

All over the McAllen area, people volunteered to help them. There were people on horses, they had people watching, they found a shoe that had been thrown in a field that had mud. You get that funny feeling in the pit of your stomach that this isn't right, it doesn't feel right, another day goes by. They found her purse in a field on that same route where they found one of her shoes. They took the purse to Irene's house, where her parents and relatives identified it on the Thursday after Easter. McAllen police receive a call that the body of a woman has been found floating in the Second Street Canal.

She was lying in a canal in the mud for four days. Her body was seen and how muddy and dirty it was. She is missing her shoes and underwear the cause of death was asphyxiation without strangulation perhaps the most significant finding was that there was no water in the lungs, so we knew she had been killed before being thrown into the canal. The autopsy seemed to indicate that she had been sexually assaulted, so they were looking for a male suspect. They actually drained the part of the canal where she was dumped. to see if they could find a murder weapon and what they found was a Kodak slide viewer where you could put a single slide and project that image on the wall that they published in the newspaper.

If anyone has any information about this slide viewer, please contact We received a phone call from John Fight, who was new. I guess you can call the novice priests of the Church of the Sacred Heart. John Fight tells the Macallan Police Department that this slide viewer belongs to me. Mother Fight says that Irene met him at the rectory for a private confession. a little after 7 pm after her, after confessing her, he walks her to the door and she returns to the church where she entered and the last thing she saw was Irene putting on her veil.

The story of the fight raises eyebrows, but he has an alibi. he does high mass at midnight on Holy Saturday he also does mass on Easter Sunday, since Father Fight is a trusted priest in a religious community, research interest in him quickly fades over months, researchers interviewed one hundred Different witnesses and suspects took their statements, many of them were subjected to polygraph tests there did not appear to be any other suspects in the murder the

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was frozen my dad tried to move forward but what do you pursue when all the people in a police position did they want to leave in the early 2000s?

I made the decision to pursue Irene's

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with my cousin Noami in 1960. Her father was a sheriff's deputy and was part of the team investigating Irene's murder. He felt he knew who had killed her and the police took him off the case. Sheriff Vickers at that time and it was incredible that first and foremost for me was the question: was there DNA evidence so that we could process that that was not available then and that we could do today and unfortunately as we move forward we did not ? Get somewhere, uh, before you start working on the case.

George Sailor was the

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case detective. George Sadler received a letter from a former monk and that monk had told him about this priest who killed a young Hispanic girl on Easter according to Bill Tashney. John Fight. He placed Irene in the basement of the rectory there at the Church of the Sacred Heart, that's where Irene was locked up while he went and heard the rest of the confessions, he had her gagged and tied up with a long electrical cord from the Kodak slide viewer, the head priest asked. Father O'Brien, if he could borrow the parish vehicle to go to the parsonage in St.

John's, took Irene to the parsonage while the other priests were still busy with the confessional, put her in a bathtub and also covered her. with a plastic. plastic cover when he left this place the last thing he heard was I can't breathe I can't breathe according to Dale Teshity Flight said that after midnight mass he returned to the parsonage raped Irene and then put her limp body in the church car 42 years after the original investigation Texas Ranger Rudy Jaramillo looks at Father John Fights Alibi with new eyes when he is first brought in for questioning. Investigators discovered scratches on his hands.

John Fight was trying to be two steps ahead of everyone and told authorities that He calls himself Whataburger and starts driving aimlessly, but in reality that was when he was getting rid of her evidence, her purse, her shoes. and also Irene's body, which is when he placed her in the canal after a second look at John Fight's original alibi. Arabian can see through it and is surprised to learn what the original investigators knew: none of them got through. I mean, he just kept feeding the polygrass. John Reed firmly believed that John Fight was involved in the murder of Irene Garza three weeks earlier. iringo and missing a young woman had been attacked in a Catholic church in Edinburg Texas which is about six miles from América Guerra had gone to church to pray between classes when she entered the church a man approached behind her and with a cloth he put it on, covered her mouth and tried to suffocate her, she bit his finger so hard that he let go and she ran away.

Investigators are working on that case when Irene's body is found two weeks later and they begin to see that there may be a correlation between the two. In many

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, it was not until shown photographs that the United States identified John Fight. John Fight pleads no contest to aggravated assault on America Guerra and is fined $500 before he pleads guilty. The church had sent some officials and they had made the decision that Fight would be sent to a monastery and that the punishment would be much greater than what he would receive through the justice system included with the understanding that the Irene Garza case would not continue. , so there is a reason why the case went

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during the entire investigation I had the feeling that the Catholic Church knew that John Fight had committed a murder and that he was covering it up to protect the Church, but we also couldn't prove anything .

My cousin of Noemí's father knew it. I think a lot of people knew that. that there had to be collusion to suppress this case, we tried to pursue it, but law enforcement was part of the cabal with a team of investigators who were building a case against John Fight. Irene's family punched a key witness, a man whose silence in 1960 only made them more suspicious than the head priest knew at the time of Irene Garza's murder Father Joseph O'Brien Father O'Brien Did anyone Did he tell you that you fought committed to murder? He said this information came from John Fight himself.

Is that what you're saying? yeah, okay, he tricked Jan Fight into telling me that he killed my new cars. I told him how can I help you if I don't know what happened and then he said that he, Bounder and Gagner, and she died from asphyxiation, relying on the strength of his case Michael Garza issues arrest warrant for John Fight in 2020 just two years after his life sentence John Fight dies in Huntsville prison there was a feeling of complete closure when he died, you know the case was over and you know he would never return Back overseas just after sunset on a warm summer night, Heidi Jones , four years old, is about to fall asleep when her single mother, Loretta, 24 years old, opens the bedroom door.

That night my mom came to my bedroom and told me I didn't go out and I think if I heard any sound or something that night I did what my mom told me to do and I didn't go out in the morning. I looked through the keyhole before entering the front. room when I opened the door I saw something lying on the floor my next vivid memory is I'm on the front porch and my next door neighbor is out there looking for worms she says Heidi come here I have to show you something and I say I can't, I think my mom is dead when the police arrived they saw Loretta half naked lying on the floor dead there was blood on the couch there was blood on the floor there was blood everywhere Loretta had been sexually assaulted and they stabbed her twice in the chest and 17 times in the back and an attempt was made to cut his throat the investigation did not reveal any forced entry no real signs of a tremendous struggle he was not overturned Furniture there were no broken windows the door jamb was not broken the police at that time took a lot of forensic information, fingerprints fingerprints, blood samples, carpet fibers and also some sofa fibers.

It was a big shock because I felt like nothing bad would happen to my family with your grandparents now by your side, detectives. I asked Heidi what she saw and heard the night before. I know I have something stuck in my brain from something that happened that night. I think it was too traumatic for me to remember. I don't think my mom would scream or cry that night if I had heard my mom screaming in the next room, I probably would have left the room to see what was going on, so I think my mom was my hero that night by protect me The four-year-old's memory is cloudy, except for one very important detail.

I remember telling my grandmother what she could remember. I said Tom did it. Tom killed my mom during the investigation. Heidi's grandmother was writing down everything Heidi was saying at the time and there was an entry in this notebook the morning the body was discovered. Heidi told her grandmother that it was Tom who killed my mom. They had a name. just Tom no last name no description that's all little Heidi can remember about the man who killed her mother I know I knew Tom Tom was a person who came to my mom at our house quite a bit because when I was four I knew his name on August 1st.

He calls the Sheriff's Office. His caller suggests that the agents investigate a local railroad worker named Tom Egley. I knew that Loretta. He had gone out with Tom Egley once on a blind date. I thought she didn't like me and that she didn't want anything to do with this guy, but Heidi was always right in the same story every time she knew that Tom killed my mother, it just seemed like. as if he was the perfect suspect at the time of this murder Tom lived in a motel in Utah he lived with his girlfriend who was eight months pregnant the detectives pick up Tom and take him to the Sheriff's Office to question him Tom Egley explained to the police officer On the night of the homicide, he hitchhiked with a couple of younger teenagers.

He had been dropped off at a small local fast food place. He said he grabbed a hamburger and sat on the sidewalk and ate it. Egley insists that while he was on price, he didn't. attacked Laurie nor visited Loretta Tom says he ended up at a bar called Highway Rendezvous on Springland Road probably at 11 11 30 p.m. investigators set out to corroborate egley's story look at Highway Rendezvous the owner of the bar, she said Tom arrived that night, a little skittish and nervous. Tom had red specks on his shirt and said he had been painting red paint.

He must have stained it. The police met Tom at his apartment and he allowed them to enter. They let them search his room, took a pair of Levi's that Tom said he was wearing that night and a shirt. Detectives bagged the clothing and collected blood samples from Fea's hair and fingerprints so that the fibers they discovered on Tom's clothing matched fibers found similar to those on Loretta Jones' carpet. Investigators feel they had enough probable cause to arrest Tom and that is what they did during this preliminary hearing. Prosecutors told witnesses that Tom was in town that day and saw him at the bar.

Prosecutors said the fiber evidence the FBI produced in his lab was similar in nature to the carpet Loretta had in his home, but Tom was known to have been in his home before the case. outthin, there is almost no physical or reliable evidence. Witnesses, the judge ruled that there was not enough evidence to link him during the trial, so Tom igley was released. Tom egley turned out to be a guy in the wrong place at the wrong time walking around shortly after I published an article in the newspaper to get more information on this case because I was hoping the public could file my case so I got a call from this The girl who said she had information for me about my case said: Have you ever seen Loretta write the murderer's name in blood? and I asked her how she would do it.

You know this anyway, I mean you weren't allowed into the crime scene and she says yes, she says she was living with Heidi's grandmother at the time she went to school and the day after this happened, Heidi's grandfather asked her and one of Heidi's aunts. to go to the house the police let us into the house long enough to get clothes and some things for Heidi so they went to the living room and she says I saw it right there with my own eyes I didn't write the full name she just took out the T and the O, we took the photo, we enlarged it and there was definitely Ty an o Written in blood, wow, that's some heavy stuff, so I'm getting goosebumps right now thinking that Loretta was trying to tell the story you herself and help us and it seems that the last thing she did on this Earth was I wrote the letter O and she couldn't write the m there for Tom.

Lisa Carter knew Tom personally, so she had almost daily contact with him and, wow, then I started thinking we could use an undercover agent. I went to see Tom with the idea. that I was going to betray my husband, I'm sick if he were here, I'm done, so I explained to Tom egley that my husband had been training in Utah and I let him know that during that training Tom was the topic of the class and that was known as a suspect in the murder of Loretta Jones. I said I've known Tom for over 20 years. On the other hand, Tom is in a pretty bad situation and I said: what did they say?

If they still have the swabs from the night of the murder that the autopsy people took well, I don't know how they can have DNA. Lisa spends two more days earning her money. egley trust and then he finds gold he said he was just in the neighborhood and he knocked on the door he said Loretta Jones let him in and the door closed and then what would you think happened if you had to guess what would you think happened? I was turned down for sex, that's okay and that made you feel how and when she came back.

I stabbed her, it totally stunned me, they never changed their voice and I think that's what got me, it was like he was telling you about Sunday dinner, he recognized that she wasn't dead, that she was moaning and I was like, well . you had sex with her and he said yes of course I had sex with her he said it was consensual and I said Tom you stabbed her how is that consensual? and he said she didn't say no to me and she took me a while. before I can process what I just heard, I don't think Tom has any remorse at all, I don't think he cares, so you remember having sex with her in Manuel.

I lost him, cut his throat and left him. It just blew me away I couldn't react I didn't know what to say I know a good admission when you hear one and I had one I got a legal admission to murder uh Tom stood up and the judge asked him if he had anything to say and the only thing he had to say It's uh I'm sorry I killed her and I'm surprised you're doing anything about it after 46 years and you know our family is sitting there in the courtroom like really what do you mean? after 46 years it doesn't matter if it was 46 minutes 46 days 46 years the fact of the matter is that you killed our sister for someone like that to show no remorse it was just mind blowing on a lazy summer afternoon a broken love A couple drives towards the forests of rural Washington in search of the perfect hideaway, a secluded place to carry out their secret romance, but discover to their horror that they came across a log that was on the other side of the road when they got out of the vehicle to move the log. that they saw body line approximately 15 feet beyond the trunk, she was on her back, she was wearing a pair of bikini style underwear, a pair of knee high socks, a pair of boots and nothing else, her blue jeans and clothing were scattered.

She had a wound on the right side of her head and she was breathing but she didn't say anything. The man sat her in the passenger seat of his small two-seater sports car and the woman raised her head to keep her airways open. When they arrived at the hospital it seemed that she was still She was alive, but by the time they could begin to examine her, she had already died. She didn't have any identification, no purse, no driver's license, no ID card, so they didn't know who they had. That same afternoon, before this Grim Discovery, Jody Loomis, 40, had hopped on his bicycle heading to the stable and had taken a ride on her horse.

Saudi. It was a beautiful day back in 1972. I'm 12 years old. I went out down the road to meet my girlfriend Jody decided that she was going to go to Saudi Arabia and come back before it got dark and she left. She was on her way home when I got a call. There was a suspicious death at Stevens Memorial. A nurse on duty directed me back to a closed room where the body was a disturbing sight to have her lying there with only shoes and her glasses were crooked on her face and she had a bullet hole in her head, we could see that there was dirt and leaves stuffed in his underwear, his boots. she would have put on after pulling her underwear back up.

I observed what appeared to be seminal fluid on the crotch of her underwear. It was obviously some kind of sexually motivated homicide. She was able to put her panties back on. She put on her right shoe. But she was apparently tying her left shoe when the killer shot her in the head. Jody's killer is still out there and people fear she may strike again. That fear turns to panic when other young women begin to disappear. An individual was kidnapping young women off the street. There were no particular pro

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on the streets other than there were women and they were young and pretty there was a serial killer killing college-aged girls in the Pacific Northwest the guy the police believed responsible was a guy named Ted Bundy the similarities between the case of Jody and the Bundy murders was that she was in the right age group College age and probably the right hairstyle many of them had their hair parted in the center Jody parted her hair in the center people in Snohomish fear that This notorious killer may have struck again however, investigators realized that Jody's murder did not match Ted Bundy's modus operandi.

Ted Bundy would put his arm in a sling, carry a crutch, or do something like a ruse to get a college student to help him. They had been seen getting into a vehicle. voluntarily with someone good, this is not the same she was riding a bike she was beaten up in Jody's case she was shot she just wasn't a good fit investigators eliminate Ted Bundy leaving them with no solid suspects in Tony's murder the young man's case The woman who came out to ride a bike and never came back it was as cold as the winter winds that blew from Canada as time went by there were no more tracks and there was nothing there was just silence for years and years and years and then decades.

I really felt like no one cared about Jody's murder and other unsolved

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getting a fresh look from a new investigative unit, so everyone realized that there is a real need to have a designated team of detectives dealing with of unsolved cases. Jody's case fits the criteria the Cold Case team is looking for. It was a homicide, a sexually motivated homicide, and he realized that she was a completely innocent victim. One of the best tools we had as a cold case detective was DNA. In Jody's case, intact sperm had been taken from the vaginal swabs at the autopsy, so everything they found would need to appear to be present.

In this case, we knew we could go get these vaginal swabs, the slides that had been sent to the hospital and we were going to get a DNA profile and upload it to CODIS and solve this case immediately. Justice for Jody holds on to a DNA sample from the crime scene evidence, but investigators again hit a major roadblock and we discovered there was no DNA evidence anywhere and we couldn't find it. They were all missing. You know, we were dumbfounded. It was just devastating when we realized those things were missing, so the researchers looked for another sample, but we had Jody's shirt, her jeans, and both of her boots.

I sent all of those items to the state patrol crime lab to see if they could find any DNA evidence that might have been missed or left on another article of clothing. I received a phone call from the forensic analyst at the state patrol crime lab telling me that he had found a stain of DNA evidence on Jody Loomis' left boot. We were so excited that we drove to the crime lab and she came back to her workstation and showed us the slide and I counted 25 sperm on it and it was like, yeah, we really have what we need to solve this case.

It was wonderful, now you have a DNA profile and yes I can't compare that to anyone. You have no one to chase. No suspect. Nobody is handcuffed. There is no one accused. There is no hope of that happening in the near future. I didn't know if I would ever see the face. of who murdered my sister for ten long years, there's not much to hold on to. Everything changes with a forensic advance. Detective Scharf became aware of a new use of technology called forensic genealogy that uses a suspect's DNA. A genetic genealogist searches public DNA databases for partial matches.

Partial matches lead to a family tree. Someone in that tree could end up being an exact match. The DNA information was sent to a genetic genealogist and, in fact, she spent 58

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s over a three-day period to find a child for Jacquetta and Albert Miller. Jaquetta and Albert Miller had six sons and one daughter, so now authorities had six men and one of them was probably the donor of that DNA. One had a sexual criminal record and that was Terence Miller. A couple of years after Jody's murder, he was arrested on legal charges. rape and child abuse but he received deferred prosecution for counseling so Terry didn't go to prison so now that we knew he was a sex offender we started following Terence Miller they have to get a known DNA sample . of the suspect surreptitiously so as not to alert him and then compare it with the original DNA sample.

The only way this innovative technology would be worth it is if undercover officers could obtain a sample of Terence Miller's DNA. We asked them to follow Terry as long as they could. We took anything that touched his lips because we wanted to take a saliva sample, that's his best evidence to do a DNA test, so they followed him to a casino, watched him buy a cup of coffee and then discard that company in a boat of trash seconds after that cup of coffee was out. They threw it in the trash the detectives secured it they put it in a plastic bag they brought me the glass I kept it as evidence and took it to the crime lab and I crossed my fingers a little over a week later the crime lab contacted Sharp, it matched with Jody. in the loomis case, so at that time we finally identified a killer after 46 years, he was a real high pointer.

Miller was eventually charged with one count of first-degree murder, making it premeditated murder. When Mr. Miller was in jail he made a series of phone calls. Calls to his wife Every phone call is recorded He had made comments to the effect that you know I'm going to jail They have me They got the defendant's DNA The murderer's trial finally begins Monday morning I was at my desk and around 9 on the 30th we received a phone call from the Patrol. They were at the Miller House. Terence Miller had apparently committed suicide that morning. They told us that they had not informed the jury that they would continue deliberating and then they came back a little later and said it was fine. everyone into the courtroom and the jury announces that he is guilty, oh thank God there was no justice when the trigger was pulled.

I wanted him to go to prison because he knew pretty well what was going to happen to him in prison and it wasn't going to be like that. be pretty, he wanted to be seen handcuffed and taken out of the courtroom. Took that from them, the Oregon State Police received a call of what they called a hike from the Fairview Training Center, it was a mental health facility when the state police responded. They learned she was Janie Landers, an 18-year-old woman with developmental disabilities who had wandered away from the facility. Cheney was 18 and didn't look 18. JanieShe was about five foot one, I think she weighed about 90 pounds, soaked and the developmental age of about eight years old, staff members tell police that 18-year-old Janie has been missing for several

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The detectives begin to gather information. They first interviewed her teacher and discovered that Janie was last seen in her classroom and that Bill Graf Her counselor had come in and talked to her while she was in class for a short time and shortly after she stormed out of the classroom. class and the teacher said she saw Janie walking from the classroom toward Koser Cottage, which was the housing unit. where she lived overseas but Janie didn't get to Koser Cottage where she was supposed to get to and then she was labeled AWOL talking about it until the end of the shift and we hadn't heard any words other than no I haven't found her. however, Janie was last seen just before two p.m.

I worked at Fairview for about three and a half years. I was a psychiatric assistant the day Janie disappeared, I was as normal as could be when I turned a corner near the main street. driveway I walked up every day I saw this girl and recognized her as a resident. He didn't know her name but he had seen her on campus. I see a car parked on the shoulder and a gentleman walking in front of my car. I thought she didn't recognize him, this is a little suspicious, why would that man be outside her car? What is he doing approaching her?

And I thought: should I pick it up or not? I wanted to do it, but there were strict rules. against that, so I quickly went to my cabin and called security, the security came down and verified that they had not found anyone. Information from witnesses came into play and they began to discover that detectives were most likely getting a description of the individual who was Janie. talking to him he was wearing a t-shirt and jeans he was maybe 35 40. he had a big belly five eight or five ten he needed a haircut he was a little shaggy she also gave him information about the vehicle it was a gold colored four door sedan now we have more possibilities of a kidnapping as if she had not simply left but was talking to someone.

Fairview had hundreds of employees and there was no restricted access to the facilities, so it literally could have been any land owner. While checking their field and the perimeter of their property, they discovered the body of a young woman lying on the edge of a farm field just off the road. They had a missing person. They knew it was probably Janie when she first arrived. They discovered she was lying face down in the bushes and when they rolled her over, she had one arm above her face, there was a lot of blood from some stab wounds in the neck area, the victim en Janie Landers, 18, there wasn't much evidence Through the blood there were no signs of a struggle, it was pretty clear that the body was simply dumped in the bushes, she had been stabbed elsewhere and had fought for her life.

Detectives canvassed the area and spoke with the homeowners. nearby but they didn't find anything when my dad got the call about Janie, he had anguish in her voice and then he tells us that they found Janie's body, it looked like she had been murdered. I didn't want to believe they found her. dumped somewhere in the autopsy, one of the things that was determined was that the contents of her stomach matched what she was served at noon lunch in Fairview on March 9; That information would suggest that she was murdered shortly after being last seen in 1979, when we won a broadcast of information to the public.

We are reviewing the newspaper, mainly the Statesman Journal, where we generated clues and suggestions from Leona. It was descriptive enough that detectives felt confident in trying to call a sketch artist. Newspaper articles about Janie's disappearance. and the suspect's portrait was published in the newspaper, two women who worked at the food cart in Fairview saw the article in the newspaper and the portrait of the man last seen talking to Janie recognized him as a man they had served in the restaurant. car the day he disappeared on March 9. We don't know who he was, but we know that at least she came and had lunch there.

We didn't have much more information to continue. Choice hangs the last hope on him. to solve Janie's murder with the promise of new technology. I spoke with Detective Hinkle and a couple of other officers. I knew just from my own studies and from watching television that technology was better in 2015 than it was in 1979. They had the ability to I tested their clothes to see if there was anything there, which I knew was their ability to match DNA. I ended up collecting four isolated bloodstains from Janie Lander's shirt to send for DNA that I thought might be transfers from the perpetrator if the perpetrator had picked her up and cut her finger and grabbed her and maybe grabbed her.

Nine months after Janie's shirt was sent for testing, the results came back. I got a call from Jen telling me there was a rakotus hit and the suspect was Gerald Dunlap, so I wanted to know who the hell Gerald Dunlap is. His DNA profile was in codus because he was sentenced and was in Oregon State Prison at one point. Gerald Dunlap is a Convicted sex offender first arrested in the 1960s Gerald Dunlap was 79 years old for the rate of a very young female victim in 1961 in the state of Tennessee. However, he was paroled in 1973. He was only there for 12 years.

I was able to locate a Photograph taken of Gerald Dunlap in Tennessee when he was paroled and that photograph matched the forensic sketch very closely, so it confirmed that we were on the right track following his release from a Tennessee prison. Dunlap is hired to work at the Fairview training center. Dunlap worked in a laundry. Fairview's payroll records show that he was employed and worked during the month of March 1979. When we interviewed co-workers and supervisors at the laundry room, they all said they worked a day shift and that each person had a break at 2 P. m., that's the time.

At the time Janie disappeared, one of the supervisors I interviewed at the laundromat said he ended up having to fire Gerald because he had padded the butt of a patient who worked at the laundromat, so that was another red flag as well. of his previous rape crime by in the '60s and then the sexual assault case in the early '90s, where he sexually assaulted his step-granddaughter, that case ended with him in the Oregon state prison that we are dealing with, it was a serial rapist, someone who preyed on young women. The foreign system failed by allowing him the justice system gave him a free card to go and harm another person and ultimately murder my sister.

When we got the photo of him we did a double blind photo selection with the witnesses who were still alive and they both chose Dunlap's photo from that lineup when Detective Hengel came to my house he said I have some photos here that I would like you to check out to see if you can identify anyone. I look at them, this is the man I saw there and he says yes, we have him. Janie's family finally knows who the Killer is, but justice comes too late. Dunlap died in prison in 2002. At one point I'm ecstatic, yes, we have a DNA match, but he still died, so immediately I'm thinking we don't even know. take him to court to declare him guilty of what he did to Janie.

I was disappointed that Gerald Dunlap was dead. I want 12 jurors to come and I want them to say that Gerald Dunlap is guilty of this crime. The foreign workers were working in an almond farm. Orchard, about a mile off Highway 99, they came across a dead woman. They found her curled up in a somewhat fetal position and called the sheriff's office in Curtin County, who responded when homicide detectives arrived on the scene, examined the young woman and noted that some of the facial features led them to believe that she She could be Native American. The victim was about 35 years old, completely dressed in a pink top, blue jeans, and very clean white sneakers.

The front of her top was completely saturated with blood. I had never seen a victim who was stabbed many times this was not an accident the suspect intended to kill our victim when examining the scene the detectives saw that there were tire tracks but there were no other tracks so the investigators theorized that The young woman was murdered in another place in this comedy. It is known as a mortuary. She didn't have identification. She had no jewelry. She didn't have a bag. When you don't know the name of a victim, a completely unidentified Jane Doe, you're not sure where to look for witnesses, it's very difficult to try to track them down. those clues from the coroner's office on the corner said it looked like the victim had been raped.

Swabs were taken from the semen to collect it as foreign evidence. She also had two tattoos. These were the most frequent identifying marks she had. She had a tattoo. that was a rose on top it said mother and on the bottom it said I love you and then I had a second tattoo which was a heart that had the name Shirley on top it said I love you and on the bottom it said The Seattle custodians at Westlake High School received the Call from a mannequin lying on the parking lot, they approached and realized that it was a young woman partially naked, obvious stab wounds on the upper part of the body, her shoes were discarded on the hillside, bloody drag marks were seen in the parking lot, she had been taken there. in a car and Drugs on the hillside where she was found, a second woman was found dead murdered in the same manner as the Jane Doe victim in Kern County, she had a light colored blouse soaked in blood, it was very evident that she she had struggled she had defensive wounds on her arms and hands she had been raped she had no identification she had no jewelry until she was identified this victim will be referred to as Jane Doe Ventura thank you when they did the autopsy they found out she had been stabbed approximately 29 times in 2011.

I had retired from the Sheriff's Department and was in the process of being rehired by the District Attorney's Cold Case unit. Almost immediately investigator Steve Rhodes took over the Ventura Jane Doe cold case DNA evidence that had been collected in 1980 from the victim's rape kit and clothing was sent to CODIS for analysis using the techniques of Newer DNA. The Department of Justice informed us that there was a match with CODIS. They finally got a DNA result on Django Ventura's rape kit, after more. For over 30 years we had a match with a suspect, that DNA match was with a convicted felon named Wilson.

Wilson is locked up behind bars in state prison serving a life sentence or a series of sexual assaults and they also learned there was a prior match. CODIS searched for Wilson with a Jane Doe in Kern County. We called the Kern County Sheriff's Department and learned that Wilson Cheest is a white man who was born and raised in Louisiana. He was kicked out of the military due to drug abuse and settled in Los Angeles. Angeles, it turned out that Wilson Shoet was a serial rapist. He was arrested in '77 for the kidnapping and rape of a young woman who he had left for dead for that crime.

He was sentenced to two years in State Prison, so in June 1980, Wilson shoes gets paroled and moved to Kings County. He will only be out for about three months. Most certainly, he was in the area right at the time of the Jane Doe murders. DNA shows Chewist had sexual relations with both victims. Investigators know that doesn't necessarily make him a murderer. With her history of sexual assault you have never had sexual relations with her. I don't know her, so there's no way your DNA is on this girl's clothes. No, in this case the LIE is as good as the truth.

I asked him if He would voluntarily give us his DNA sample and allow us to collect a DNA sample, but Rhodes doesn't want to take any risks. He's looking for more evidence. Steve Rhodes called the Kern County Sheriff's Department, obtains the case file, and notes that Kern County detectives interviewed Wilson in 2008. During his interview, Wilson mentions that he lived with a family called The Bells for about a month. during the period in which the two victims were found murdered. Steve realized that Kern County detectives had never attempted to locate Wilson. Bell Family I started looking for phone books on the Internet and finally landed in a small town in Oklahoma.

I called the Oklahoma Police Department in this small town to have the Oklahoma detective go to the address Rhodesprovides. The detective knocks on the door and says: do you remember a guy named Wilson Shoes, it's been 33 years and his eyes light up and he says: Do I have a story for you? I got very emotional, so shortly after our phone conversation, my partner and I met with Ms. Bell and her youngest son, Scott Scott, says, is that right? because of that woman he killed in Bakersfield, God told us that West had been told he had picked up a girl in a bar, took her out to the field and killed her, Scott was told he then dumped her body in the middle of the nothing. it all came together this has to be Jane Doe Kern at her safest hearing pleads not guilty July 2018 38 years after murders chuest found guilty of Ventura County chained toes murders and Kern was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole but we still wanted to know the identity of these victims we decided to do something I have never done four cents we went to Wilson to see if he would tell us and he told me that he picked up Jane Doe from County Kern in a bar in Hanford he didn't know who she was.

I asked him where he had been tricked into Ventura County and he told me he found her hitchhiking in Visalia. I felt it was important to find out who these women were and I'm sure. There's a family out there wondering where she went. I want to answer that question. February 2020. I was at a women's conference. For once I thought okay I'll share it and said my Aunt Shirley has been missing since 1979. Days later one of the women emailed her and said look on Facebook and there was that photo I saw of the They call Becky Ochoa and I was like, oh my God, and I was like, I know it's her, I know it's her and then.

When I saw the tattoos I couldn't believe it, a person from the Jane Doe project asked me to upload my DNA, she said it was her, I cried, I laughed, I mean, it was crazy, a lot of emotions, yes, when I heard that we had identified each other . I sure felt great for Violet, but we are still trying to identify Ventura County's Jane Doe with the DNA mass project. We have traced her family line from Guatemala to New Mexico and it is starting to look like she might have ties to the family. Los Angeles Area I think we're very close to finding out who she is to give back her name.

It simply ends a promise I made to all my victims. I will do everything possible to seek justice for you and that is my service to my foreign community