Las Vegas police have announced they have solved a 1991 cold case, where a 30-year-old mother was found strangled to death in an apartment. The murder suspect was also linked to another case in Colorado.
Not enough credit is given to the detectives at the time who cared enough to get the evidence and ensure it was secured properly in order for others to solve it many years later, knowing that they wouldn’t get the glory. Awesome job all round..👏
Agreed. My family lost my cousin who was like my big sister. We were very close. We lost her in a case of domestic violence. He's hit her body and he won't tell where she is. We belong to a support group for people who have lost loved ones to violent crime. We have a member of our group who back in the late '80s lost their brother. To a hate crime fueled by the fact this man was gay. Quite recently the RCMP have come out and they have solved this case. With DNA and genealogy. And it's like a weight's been lifted off the family. I mean it's not going to bring their loved one back. It's not going to change what happened to them or their loved one, but it's a sense of closure. Unfortunately, the monster who clearly did it because his DNA was all over the scene who is also confessed to friends that he murdered someone will not confess. So they have to go through a trial. And through personal experience. I know how traumatizing that can be. And then you have the appeals and then another appeal and then another appeal and then another one. Honestly though, if this guy gets convicted which it looks like he's going to, he's not going to have time to appeal. He is an old man. He's going to die in jail where he belongs.
Maddening to learn that monster killed Sherrie _after_ being released from prison. Anyone who sexually assaults a child should _never_ be released. You can't "reform" or "rehabilitate" someone that warped.
Sadly. If you look into a lot of serial killers backgrounds they originally committed a horrible offense that should've kept them behind bars for life but they were released and that's when they went on to kill time and time again. It's really disturbing
He should never have been paroled from the attack on the 13-year old. And the Las Vegas lady would not have been murdered. Before the Supreme Court started the snowball destruction of the country in 1977, the former crime on the 13-year old was a death penalty punishment, commonly administered during the first 200 years of the United States' existence. [The 1977 ruling was in Coker vs. Georgia, which eliminated the death penalty for r x (pe). It has been a huge, tragic mistake for the nation.]
@@44elisdad It's today's despicable American "lawyers" who need to get off their asses. I was a teenager in '77 and nobody in my family voted. (I do now.) As if that would have influenced the corrupt and depraved "lawyers" of the Supreme Court anyway.
@@davidb2206 I don't believe the death penalty is effective nor do I live in California, here in Maine though where there isn't any possibility of parole (since the 1970's) this sort of event doesn't happen nor have we executed any innocent individuals since the 19th century. We even let our prisoners vote, crazy liberal shit right? Yet we also have one of the lowest crime rates in the country if not the world, so go figure. It does, however, allow me the freedom to spin the world on issues where I can be of actual use...
Just like this case, until the DNA match is made, LE don't know that the suspect is dead. Also, it can lead to solving other crimes. I imagine that if you had a close relative murdered, you would want to know that the perpetrator was now under arrest or deceased. DNA can be matched with those who are in prison or who have been in prison since 1994 as by law, inmates' DNA is recorded. I hope that this is helpful for you and others reading your comment.
Thanks for your comment, I doubt that many people are aware that 23 & Me help law enforcement in solving crimes. Most matches are made as a result of matches with relatives who are on 23 & Me. Thanks again!
Same for Los Angeles. More than 9,000 unsolved. It's a nation full of murderers walking around. The FBI does not even track the number of unsolved cases. Someone estimated it at more than 250,000 nationwide.
THANK YOU, It is so expensive to run these DNA tests, so it would be nice if they could set up some kind of - go fund - for each state, so that way a lot more cold cases get solved
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time! 🤨 The law will chase you INTO the grave if the must! 😲 If only they would police themselves with such determination! 🤔
33, years later isn’t justice if caught. Glad they found out but it doesn’t change anything. Not sure what your point is especially if the person is near death.
@@anthonymartinez4307 I agree with you. If a murderer is not caught for decades and gets to live his/her life or as he/she chooses, where is the justice in that! My point is, with the developing technology even the grave cannot hide your guilt! 🤨
@@johnleos1687 That's what happened with poor single mother and phone operator Diane Maxwell. It's described in the 'Brotherly Love' episode of Forensic Files. Didn't catch the evil perpetrator till he was an old man. It made her 10-year old son motherless.
Her parents may have died not knowing what happened. I feel THAT is the worse horrid aspect of this taking 33 yrs, and the parents of Denise, oh those four modified parents. I am thankful for this video. M. IL. 😮
Most people don't realize that you can still have a likelihood of narrowing suspects down by the specific haplogroups. For instance if you have two suspects, one Irish and one native American and the DNA is L21 Ydna then it is absolutely not a Native American who will be a Q subset Ydna haplogroup, but L21 is a predominant Irish haplogroup (but you still dont know for sure, could be a Scottish or English person, or an L21 elsewhere, but it's a predominantly Irish western European haplogroup). From there you can try to get that person's specific DNA, and you don't even need immediate family because it always narrows down from broader to specific (100th cousin, 20th cousin, 3rd cousin, parent's). This is because every child born has a few hundred mutations so the Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs)(when on A,T,C or G changes) are different based on what we can call the prototype, the parents DNA, and on and on to the grandparents or 1st cousins and eventually to all humanity. It works this way because all humanity has common ancestry. We can do the same thing for all life from one individual because all life on earth has common ancestry, but there are special measures to not confuse other ape DNA like chimps (it's happened before), because chimps leave fingerprints too. But isotope forensics is the cool stuff, I got a playlist on it if anyone wants to learn more. You can discern if someone was in another country last week if they haven't cut their hair from oxygen isotopes in hair, or what region someone spent the first several years of life in from their strontium isotopes in their teeth, or what region someone lived in for the last ten years from their long bones, this is all assuming they're a corpse. This is how they found the "Isdell Woman" was born in Southern Bavaria by checking her teeth.
1975 to 1991 is a long time, l wonder how many others the coward murdered. R.I.P. to the young ladies who died unnecessarily. Rehabilitation does NOT exist, PERIOD
Ive been a true crime buff for over 40 years and i dont have the words to express this era of advanced genocidal dna has enthalled me. I think so often about the families that are getting answers...finally. Next i think to the future and how this one breakthrough might solve other deadly assaults. This one definitely feels like there may be more victims.
If there are not more victims it is only because he spent so much time in prison. He committed the 1975 murder, then was sentenced to 6 years for an unrelated burglary. The year he got out, 1981, he assaulted the 13-year-old. The year he got out for that, 1991, he committed the second murder. Then died six months later.
The 2 victims looked similar to each other in their photos, I bet u he had a girlfriend who looked like that and she dumped him. I know that Ted Bundy often looked for women with long brown hair because they looked like a girl he dated in college and she broke up with him for particular reasons and that made him look for someone similar to her.
As much as I love giving scientists their due, the investigators preserved evidence when DNA tech was in its infancy and a lot of other investigators would not have had the forethought to. There's way too many cases where evidence was lost due to inept policing or straight up apathy because the victim was not seen as worth the effort.
