Episode 73 DOE ID; 'Jasper County Doe' William Joseph 'Bill' Lewis On October 15, 1983, a trapper on a private tract of land outside of Rensselaer in Jasper County Indiana found the unidentified remains of a young man. An investigation revealed that the man had been the victim of a homicide. He was dubbed 'Jasper County Doe'. Based on similar murders of other young men in the area around the same time, police believed that Jasper County Doe was just one more victim in a string of murders committ...
Jul 10, 2023•41 min
Episode 72 Eve Wilkowitz 20 year old Eve Wilkowitz’s life was all coming together during the first few days of spring, 1980. She had a job she loved and a new boyfriend. Her daily commute into Manhattan from Bay Shore, Long Island was long, but Eve had plans to move into the city. Someone took all that away from her. After boarding the last LIRR train from the city to Long Island, Eve vanished. Her loved ones were frantic for three days, and their worst fears came true when she turned up dead in...
Jul 03, 2023•1 hr 32 min
Episode 71 DOE ID 'The Lady In The Fridge' Amanda Deza In March, 1995, 2 scrap scavagers found an abandoned refrigerator in a canal area known as 'Whiskey Slew' in Holt, California. As they tried to remove the fridge, it opened revealing it's ghastly contents; the decomposed remains of a young woman. An investigation of the body revealed that the woman had been murdered; the victim of blunt force trauma to the head. Although she had no identification, police hoped that using the scant clues and ...
Jun 26, 2023•32 min
Episode 70 Lee Rotatori In June 1982, Lee Rotatori was excited for the new job that meant a move to Council Bluffs, Iowa. But when Lee was found murdered in the Best Western there, police were stumped. The only clue was floral foam on the floor, and there were no suspects. Lee knew only a few people in town, and her husband was over 600 miles away when she was raped and stabbed in Room 106. Her case went cold. When forensic genealogy pointed to a man named Thomas Freeman as her killer, it just a...
Jun 19, 2023•1 hr 36 min
Episode 69 Doe ID 'Rosemount John Doe' James Everett On September 26,2014, the remains of an unidentified man were found in a decommissioned railroad switching shed located behind American Legion in Rosemount, Minnesota. Although the remains were mostly skeletonized and too decomposed to determine a cause of death, it appeared that he had died of natural causes. Items and belongings found with him were indications to the authorities that the man was possibly homeless, and had died from exposure ...
Jun 12, 2023•27 min
Episode 68 Nancy Daugherty Part 2 of 2 This is the conclusion of the Nancy Daugherty case. If you have not already listened to part 1, go back and listen to that part before this one. For all things DNA: ID, visit the show's homepage: DNAIDpodcast.com To Support DNA: ID on Patreon, visit this link: https://www.patreon.com/DNAID To buy DNA ID Merch, visit this link: https://www.customizedgirl.com/s/dnaidpodcast Follow DNA: ID on Social Media on Twitter at- https://twitter.com/DNAIDPodcast on Face...
Jun 05, 2023•59 min
Episode 68 Nancy Daugherty Part 1 of 2 Nancy Daugherty’s life was in flux. She was facing a divorce, a relocation, a return to school. Her love life was complicated. But the 38 year old EMT was known by all as an incredibly caring, giving, and generous person, who loved to help others. That all came to an end when she was found naked, raped and strangled in her bed in July 1986. All signs pointed to a heated struggle outside her Chisholm, MN house in the middle of the night, and neighbors heard ...
Jun 05, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Episode 67 Heather Porter Heather Porter had a fight with her mother and walked out of her Baltimore County, Maryland house on a Tuesday night in September 1981. She hung out with some friends, but around 11:10 p.m., started the .4 mile walk home. It was a school night, and Heather was just 13. She never made it. Somewhere in that distance of less than a half mile, Heather was abducted. Her body was found the next morning, miles away in Towson, raped and strangled. Police investigated the case t...
May 22, 2023•1 hr 18 min
Episode 66 DOE ID 'Millie Doe' Ruth Waymire On June 20th, 1984, the dismembered body of a woman was found by a group of fishermen in the Spokane River in Spokane, Washington. It was clear to authorities that the woman had been murdered, and her killer went to great lengths to ensure she could not be identified removing her hands, feet, and head. Investigators had little to go on and few clues to work with. They knew that the woman they later called 'Millie Doe' had given birth to a child less th...
May 15, 2023•19 min
Episode 65 Viola Hagenkord Friendly, warm, and independent Viola Hagenkord, age 79, had moved to Anaheim, CA two years earlier to spend her golden years in a safe community near her family. Everyone in the apartment complex knew Viola, known as “Grandma” to some of her neighbors. It was a shock to everyone when the elderly lady was found raped and slain in her bed, having asphyxiated from a gag, her body beaten and bloodied. A break in at a nearby apartment led police to a suspect who would endu...
May 08, 2023•1 hr 41 min
Episode 64 Doe ID 'Beth Doe' Evelyn Colon When a dismembered body was found in 3 suitcases along the Lehigh River in Carbon County in December, 1976, it began a decades long mystery. When investigators combed the area where the body had been found, they also discovered the body of a fetus; that of an almost full term baby girl. An ME concluded that the body belonged to a young woman who was in her teens or early 20s, and that the baby found nearby was hers. The woman who was dubbed 'Beth Doe' ha...
May 01, 2023•32 min
Episode 63 Thomas and Alice Green In June 1981, the upscale town of Livermore, CA was shocked by the double murder of Thomas “Whitey” Green and his wife Alice in their posh home. Police had lots of avenues to investigate, since Whitey ran a very lucrative and very illegal sports betting business with real connections to organized crime, and there were rumors that he had piles of money buried in the back yard. Police even met with a self-professed hit man turned informant who was murdered that sa...
Apr 24, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Episode 62 DOE ID 'Fly Creek Jane Doe' Sandra 'Sandy' Morden In February, 1980, a father and son panning for Gold in the Fly Creek area near Amboy, Washington, found a human skull and alerted authorities to their find. Investigators confirmed the skull was human, and found other bones belonging to the same person. They identified the remains as belonging to a teenage female, and determined she was a homicide victim. No clothes or other belongings of the girl were found, and police could not iden...
Apr 17, 2023•33 min
Episode 61 Tonya McKinley Part 1 of 2 On new year’s day 1985, the body of a woman was found lying on the dirt shoulder of a residential street in Pensacola, Florida. She was battered, bloody, and partially undressed. Tonya had last been seen celebrating New Year’s Eve at a local bar with friends – but no one knew when she left, or with whom. Multiple pieces of physical evidence, including semen and hairs, were found on her body, but before the advent of modern forensics, they led nowhere. Multip...
Apr 10, 2023•52 min
Episode 61 Tonya McKinley Part 2 of 2 This is the conclusion of the Tonya McKinley case. If you have not listened to the first part, go back and listen to part 1 first. There is a Lifeline to help prevent suicide. Dial 988 for help For all things DNA: ID, visit the show's homepage: DNAIDpodcast.com To Support DNA: ID on Patreon, visit this link: https://www.patreon.com/DNAID To buy DNA ID Merch, visit this link: https://www.customizedgirl.com/s/dnaidpodcast Follow DNA: ID on Social Media on Twit...
Apr 10, 2023•58 min
Episode 60 DOE ID 'Christmas Tree Jane Doe' Joyce Marilyn Meyer Sommers Just before Christmas, 1996, a groundskeeper at Pleasant Valley Memorial Park Cemetery in Annandale, Virginia discovered a woman's lifeless body. Police were summoned, and it quickly became clear to investigators that the deceased woman had taken her own life. Letters from the dead woman asked for an autopsy to not be performed on her and for her remains to be cremated. She also had gone out of her way to make it hard for in...
Apr 03, 2023•32 min
Episode 59 Roxanne Wood Part 2 of 2 This is the conclusion of Episode 59; Roxanne Wood. If you have not listened to part 1, stop now and go back and listen to it. For all things DNA: ID, visit the show's homepage: DNAIDpodcast.com To Support DNA: ID on Patreon, visit this link: https://www.patreon.com/DNAID To buy DNA ID Merch, visit this link: https://www.customizedgirl.com/s/dnaidpodcast Follow DNA: ID on Social Media on Twitter at- https://twitter.com/DNAIDPodcast on Facebook at- https://www....
Mar 27, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Episode 59 Roxanne Wood Part 1 of 2 In 1987, Roxanne Wood’s husband Terry found her lying on the kitchen floor in a huge pool of her own blood. She had been raped and her throat slit. An incredibly small window of time in which her murder could have occurred led police to suspect that her husband was lying – and that he had staged the scene to make it appear an intruder had killed Roxanne. Terry Wood was the only suspect for years – until forensic genealogy pointed to someone else entirely. Some...
Mar 27, 2023•1 hr 26 min
Episode 58 DOE ID 'Opelika Jane Doe' Amore Joveah Wiggins In January, 2012, a resident in a trailer park located in Opelika, Alabama made a startling discovery when he found what he believed to be a small human skull. Police were called out to investigate, and upon further searching, found more human remains and hair in the woods nearby. Sadly, they determined that the remains belonged to a young female child and she had been murdered. Closer examination of her remains proved that she had suffer...
Mar 20, 2023•35 min
Episode 57: Julie Fuller Julie Fuller had lived in Arlington, Texas for just three weeks when she was abducted, raped and murdered at the end of June, 1983. The 11 year old native of the UK was enamored of America – but her shattered family moved back to England after her death, without their beloved Julie. Not a single witness to Julie’s abduction could assist the police investigation, and her body bore very few clues as to what had happened to her. Multiple child predators were looked at over ...
Mar 13, 2023•1 hr 20 min
Join DNA: ID at Crimecon 2023 We are so excited to announce that DNA: ID has been selected to be part of Podcast row at Crimecon 2023 happening in Orlando, FL at the World Center Marriott September 22-24. Crimecon is the world's biggest true crime convention where you can meet and rub elbows with some of the biggest names in true crime; people like Paul Holes, Dr. Henry Lee, Nancy Grace, and many more. You can sit in on or attend interactive events and discussions with experts from every field a...
Mar 10, 2023•2 min
Episode 56 Doe ID 'The Boy In The Box' Joseph Augustus Zarelli On February 25, 1957, the badly beaten and naked dead body of a little boy was found discarded in a box on the side of Susquehanna Road, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His death was ruled a homicide, and police worked feverishly to ID him using all of the tools available to them at the time. Although some of the clues that they had to work with seemed promising, they failed to ID the child, and he was buried without his name. Over th...
Mar 06, 2023•28 min
Episode 55 Nancy Bennallack Court reporter Nancy Bennallack was found brutally slain in her apartment in Sacramento in October 1970. Her killer had stabbed and cut her dozens of times, and taken precautions to ensure that he was not identified. No suspects stood out, but a possible link to another murder led many to consider whether Nancy could have been the victim of an infamous serial killer; the Zodiac. When Nancy’s murderer was finally identified by forensic genealogy, he turned out to be so...
Feb 27, 2023•1 hr 20 min
Introducing Cold The Search For Sheree Sheree Warren left her job in Salt Lake City on a mild October evening in 1985. She told a coworker she was headed to meet her estranged husband, Charles Warren, at a car dealership. But she never made it, Sheree vanished. When her car mysteriously surfaced weeks later, hundreds of miles away in Las Vegas, no one could say how it got there. When a young mother disappears under unexplained circumstances, police always turn suspicious eyes towards the husband...
Feb 22, 2023•9 min
Episode 54 Doe ID: 'Gacy Victim 5' Francis Wayne Alexander When more than 2 dozen male bodies were unearthed in the crawlspace of serial killer John Wayne Gacy's home in the Norwood Park suburb of Chicago in the late 1970's, Gacy's gruesome and twisted crime spree came to an end. But just because the killer was behind bars, the work of the investigators continued as they painstakingly tried to identify all of the remains. Over the years, most of the victims were identified, all but a handful. As...
Feb 20, 2023•20 min
Episode 53 Sylvia Quayle Part 2 of 2 This is the conclusion of episode 53, if you have not listened to the first part, go back and listen to it first. This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4720335/advertisement
Feb 13, 2023•53 min
Episode 53 Sylvia Quayle Part 1 of 2 Sylvia Quayle was a creative and artistic young woman who loved life when hers was brutally taken from her in August 1981. Sylvia’s was the first murder on record in bucolic Cherry Hills Village, Colorado, and police were stumped until, two years later, they thought the case was solved. But then that suspect was exonerated, and ten years later, the cold as ice case was back to square one. Ample DNA evidence left by a single male perpetrator did not get invest...
Feb 13, 2023•1 hr 12 min
Doe ID: 'Bedford Jane Doe' Kathy Alston On October 6, 1971 a decomposing body of a woman was found off a logging road in a wooded area near Route 101 in Bedford, New Hampshire, an area now the site of the on-ramp from Route 101 to Kilton Road in Bedford. Because her body had been covered by tree branches not native to that area, police surmised that the woman had been murdered, and her killer had brought branches with them to cover her body. Due to the advanced decomposition, gathering details a...
Feb 06, 2023•24 min
Episode 51 Nadine Madger Part 2 of 2 This is the conclusion of the Nadine Madger case. If you have not listened to part 1 yet, listen to that part first. For all things DNA: ID, visit the show's homepage: DNAIDpodcast.com To Support DNA: ID on Patreon, visit this link: https://www.patreon.com/DNAID To buy DNA ID Merch, visit this link: https://www.customizedgirl.com/s/dnaidpodcast Follow DNA: ID on Social Media on Twitter at- https://twitter.com/DNAIDPodcast on Facebook at- https://www.facebook....
Jan 30, 2023•53 min
Episode 51 Nadine Madger Part 1 of 2 In January 1980, Nadine Madger was brutally slashed and stabbed in her own home in the daytime, in front of her 8 month old child. The baby was unharmed, but Nadine was dead by the time her husband Mark found her. No one was seen around Nadine’s apartment, and neighbors had not heard a thing. Police followed up on the few clues at the scene, and tried to track down a distinctive vehicle seen by a witness, to no avail. Nadine’s case went cold as suspect after ...
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 51
