Dirty hot dog napkin left in trash helps crack 1993 cold case of womans brutal murder rape Report
5m | Apr 4, 2019Dirty hot dog napkin left in trash helps crack 1993 cold case of womans brutal murder rape Report
A Minnesota man has been accused of violently stabbing a woman to death decades ago after authorities identified him using DNA from a genealogy website and a messy napkin, the Daily Beast reports.
Jerry Westrom, 52, was charged this week in connection with the 1993 homicide of Jeanne Ann “Jeanie” Childs in Minneapolis.
Investigators zeroed in on Westrom after they compared DNA evidence from the crime scene to DNA submitted through an internet genealogy website, an emerging tactic in law enforcement in solve cold cases. Two potential matches were found and police focused on Westrom first because he lived the closest, just 35 miles north of Minneapolis in the city of Isanti.