[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] NANCY GRACE: 1964,
a spring morning in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Nine-year-old Marise
Chiverella ready to walk by herself to school. She says goodbye to
her family, but they will never see her alive again. ANTHONY PETROSKI:
She had left early. She walked by herself to school. And at that time, this was
a very safe neighborhood. You were allowed to
walk by yourself. And she did. And unfortunately, she
never came home that day. NANCY GRACE: By lunchtime on
that very same day, little Marise Chiverella
body discovered. Marise has been murdered
in a savage attack. Marise is found about 25 feet
down this slope into this pit. KRYSTEN QUINN: Marise
was found fully clothed. It was her hands and her feet
were bound with her shoelaces. And a colorful scarf that
she was wearing that day was pushed so far
back in her throat that it actually
knocked out a tooth. And how could someone
do this to a little child? NANCY GRACE: Little
Marise Chiverella's family and the tight-knit
community of Hazleton are devastated by her murder. Police work every
lead they've got, but still the case goes cold
for over half a century. Then, a new forensic science,
investigative genetic genealogy and an unusual twist gives
detectives another chance. RON CHIVERELLA: It seems to be
expanding across the country. And that's a wonderful gateway
for so many individuals like-- like my family to get
more answers to what really happened to their loved ones. This is a story about
the cruelest of crimes, the brutal murder
of a beautiful child and how a family yearns for
answers for nearly 60 years. I'm Nancy Grace. This is "Bloodline Detectives." [THEME MUSIC] NANCY GRACE: Hazleton,
Pennsylvania, 1964, a beautiful
town just three hours west of New York City. ANTHONY PETROSKI: It
was a wonderful time. The city was beautiful. A lot of good local businesses. A great community. You were able to leave
your door unlocked. It was a good place
to raise children. Marise was a quiet,
shy little girl. She was nine years old
and she was very petite. She had dark hair, blue eyes. I think she was an
incredible little girl. RON CHIVERELLA: There were five
of us children in the family. Looking and thinking of the
personalities of my siblings, they all have a
great sense of humor. And that originated
from my father. But my mother had a
unique personality, when it came to humor. She was a trickster. And that rubbed off on all
of us, including Marise. She had an excellent
personality, was loved by her
classmates at school and really had a strong
taking to prayer. Because my mother prayed
in the morning and then in the evening before
she went to bed. Marise then also, when
she was in second grade, told us that she was
aspiring to become a Catholic nun, a
teacher, a sister. And that's what she
had in grade school were Catholic nuns teaching. NANCY GRACE: Little Marise
Chiverella leaves for school that morning with
a mission in mind, to give her teacher,
the nun, a gift. RON CHIVERELLA: Once a
year, it was a tradition at Saint Joseph's school
to recognize and celebrate your teacher, your nun. Marise had asked my
mother and father, you know, what can
I bring as a gift? Because the children
would bring gifts. And having a grocery
store, my father suggested, why don't we give
you some canned goods to take? Marise needed, as the other
students in her class, needed to get whatever their
gifts were into their classroom and then scoot over
to church in time so they're not late
for 8 o'clock mass. Marise said, I'm gonna get
going because I've gotta get these gifts into the school. Carmen Marie, and Barry
said, you know, OK, we'll be-- we'll be right behind you. She was last seen in
front of 212 West 4th Street by a cousin of the
family through a window. And that was around maybe
like 8:10 in the morning. And that was the last time
that anybody that we know of can definitively say that they
saw Marise Chiverella alive. It wasn't until lunchtime her
sister asked her father like, hey, has Marise been in yet? And they realized then
that something was wrong. They returned back to school. They spoke with the nun
that was Marise's teacher. And she said that Marise had
been marked absent that day. They then went to the
priest, talked to the priest. And they started
organizing a search party with other children
and teachers and, you know, janitorial staff and
everything, looking for Marise. DEVON BRUTOSKY: The
priest called the Hazleton City Police Department. And they initiated a
missing persons report. NANCY GRACE: The search for
little Marise Chiverella, just nine years old, ends
just hours after it begins. It's a terrible
discovery that casts a shadow over the quiet
Pennsylvania town. MARK BARON: At around 1
o'clock in the afternoon, there was a individual and his
nephew that were driving around in the area of a abandoned strip
hole that was used for refuse, so a garbage dump. They had gotten out
of their vehicle. They looked down into
this garbage pit. And about 25 feet from
the very top of the pit, they noticed what
appeared to them to be like a doll, a large doll. And that intrigued them. They go down closer, realize
that it is not a doll. It is actually a
juvenile female. They have no idea who
this juvenile female is, but they believe
that she to be dead. They leave the area. They go back to their residence
and they tell another family member of what they find. And that family
member telephones the Pennsylvania State police
at about 1:15 in the afternoon. DEVON BRUTOSKY: At
that time, what they would do is just
quarter off the area and wait for a forensic
member to come out. Even though we're advanced
in forensic science now, we still had
forensic people then that did what was
normal and typical for forensics at that time. They would process
the scene, take photographs, and
try and identify exactly who this person was. At that time, what would
happen in situations like that, they would have priests come
out to issue last rites and view people that were deceased. The priest from the school,
knowing that Marise was missing and also knowing that it
was a young child found, he and another priest came out. He was the first one that
identified her at the scene. NANCY GRACE: Both the
priests and first responders are overwhelmed by the sheer
brutality of the crime scene before them. KRYSTEN QUINN: Marise
was found fully clothed. And she just didn't
have her shoes on. They were right
next to her body. It was her hands and her feet
were bound with her shoe laces. And a colorful scarf that
she was wearing that day was pushed so far
back in her throat that it actually
knocked out a tooth. And her book bag filled with
the canned goods and her pocket book and her school books
were placed right next to her, as well. It's very disturbing, it is. We're talking about
a nine-year-old girl, a nine-year-old
girl that was bound together with her own
shoelaces, deceased. Very hard, very hard. You know, try to explain
that to the family. I can't imagine how
the troopers did. It's never easy to tell a loved
one that their family members are coming home, especially when
this is so new to the community back in 1964. When I first heard about
a concern for Marise, I was on my way home
from high school. I see this black car pull
across the intersection, stop, and then
started backing up. Getting out of the
vehicle was Father Rabell, one of our priests. He put his hands on my
shoulders, very solemn looking. And he sort of leaned into me. And he said, Ronald, go home. Your mother needs you. Your sister Marise is dead. I think I was also
in a sense of denial. I couldn't believe. I was living a
dream, a nightmare. But I wasn't. NANCY GRACE: Parents in Hazleton
all afraid of brutal child killer could strike again. ANTHONY PETROSKI:
But fortunately because of this horrific crime,
it really changed the narrative for the Hazleton
community in the fact that we can't leave our
doors unlocked anymore. We can't just let our children
walk by themselves to school or to the park afterwards. We have to keep an
eye on them more. One of the worst fears for
any parent or any female, it's been one of my fears
my entire life of something like that happening. So I can't imagine
being nine years old and having to
endure what she did. Pennsylvania State
troopers struggled to make headway in the case. They have very few
leads, no witnesses, and a predatory child
killer on the loose. That's next on
"Bloodline Detectives." [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] NANCY GRACE: 1964,
Hazleton, Pennsylvania, nine-year-old Marise Chiverella
disappears while walking the short distance to school. Just hours later, her
little body discovered. State troopers are shocked
by the crime scene. They search for any clues
left behind by the killer. Investigators believe
that she was placed there. And we say that she was placed
there because on her clothing, there's no, like, foreign
material, no dirt, no nothing, nothing that would indicate that
she was rolled down this hill or thrown from a vehicle
or something like that or thrown by
somebody down there. Rather, she was placed. Being a state trooper
investigating a crime, you have to look at everything
as a whole, the totality of the crime scene. You can't just look
at one part of it. And troopers back in
1964 did a phenomenal job collecting physical
evidence, collecting DNA, collecting clothing. KRYSTEN QUINN: She
was wearing a sweater, a black skirt and stockings, and
a jacket with a colorful scarf. The day before Marise's
murder, it snowed. So down in the
stripping pit, they gathered everything
that they could that was on top of the snow. It kind of helped
them a little bit because it was actually
a dumping ground for a lot of garbage. That helped them collect
that type of evidence. They also found a
frozen tire track and they made a mold of that. MARK BARON: As far as,
like, evidence that they're collecting, obviously all
the clothing that she wears, they're taking
possession of that. You know, her book bag, that's
in the general area, the shoes. They collected a piece
of Rockwool insulation that supposedly had
a footprint on it. Items that looked like
they were recently placed there were taken,
even though they may seem very strange in
nature that you're picking up. I mean, assorted papers that
may have a person's name on it. They collected an
empty milk carton. They collected an empty
ice cream container. When you have nothing
to work with initially, anything could go ahead
and be that little bit of a breakthrough. Because once you collect that
evidence, you send it off for, you know, trace evidence testing
or maybe there's blood on it. Or maybe you could get a
hair fiber off of something. Things can just snowball for
the-- for the good when you get that-- that-- that
first piece of evidence. And then you're just rolling. NANCY GRACE: The next day Marise
Chiverella's grieving father makes a heartbreaking request. RON CHIVERELLA: My
father had asked to go and see the location
where Marise's body was found. Police agreed. And I went with my
father because my mother had told me the day before,
stay with your father. Take care of your father. So I went with my dad and the
Pennsylvania State police. And we went to the trash dump
where they found Marise's body. And that was a very heart
rattling, shaking experience for both me and my father. I have never been back there
since-- since that point in time. NANCY GRACE: Autopsy confirms
the worst fears of the family, of police, and of the
tight-knit community. The results of
the autopsy were that she was sexually
assaulted and that she was killed by blunt force
trauma and strangulation. Some police actually attended
the funeral and some police actually documented the people
that attended the funeral. Believing that it's possible
that the killer could have attended the funeral, being
such a small community, we wanted to document everybody
that was attending the funeral. So they did both. Some went to mourn
with the family and some went to
investigate and make sure we could
collect information that we may need later. RON CHIVERELLA: Seeing
her in her coffin, she had in her hands her
prayer book along with a pair of white rosaries. And she looked beautiful. NANCY GRACE: Months pass. Possible suspects come, then go. Pennsylvania State troopers
continue to work the case, following up on
leads and keeping the Chiverella family informed. The Pennsylvania State
police were there every day for the first
several weeks, giving my mother and father updates
on what was transpiring. And they were
working 18 hour days, staying and sleeping
at the barracks, getting maybe four or five hours
of sleep, and then back out. And they did that for several
months without any pay. They weren't getting
paid overtime. There was no such
thing as paid overtime. They were doing it from the
goodness of their hearts and their own minds of how
horrible the crime was. MARK BARON: They were obtaining
lists of sex offenders that were from the area. They checked each and
every one of them out. Sex offenders that
were out of the area that were known to police,
they checked everyone out. Absentees from school
who were males and that were of age that could have
committed this type of crime, they were checked out. All of the guests at
local motels and hotels within a 25-mile
radius that stayed here on the night of March 17,
all of them were contacted. All of them were
checked out, be it by our department
or our department contacting a local
department in another state perhaps and saying, can
you go ahead and reach out to these people and see what
they were doing in Hazleton and-- and try to-- try
to verify something. DEVON BRUTOSKY: Back in 1964
and all the way into the '80s, we used basically
teletype systems. So you would send
out teletype messages to different departments
asking if they could provide any details on similar cases. We had cases all throughout
the Northeast United States that they sent teletypes out
to and information came back. They reached out to
many different agencies. They followed up
every lead they could. And eventually, it just
came to a standstill. After a year of
investigating, they actually had 9,000 contacts which
lead to over 22,000 man hours, 116,000
miles traveled, and over 3,000 files
of police paperwork. But all of this led to no leads. And that's when
the case went cold. ANTHONY PETROSKI: I don't
know of one investigator who gave up hope on this case. They always said that
this is a solvable case. It is. We need a little
bit more technology. And we need somebody fresh
to take a look at it. As we see next on
"Bloodline Detectives," the fresh look comes
from a very clever teen with a passion for genealogy. [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] NANCY GRACE: Hazleton,
Pennsylvania, 1964, nine-year-old little
Marise Chiverella disappears walking to school. Hours later, her
brutalized body discovered. Police pursue every
available lead. But in the end,
the case goes cold. Now, over 40 years later,
a new investigator takes another look at the evidence. In 2007, with
advancements in technology, they found a semen stain
on one article of clothing that she was wearing
the day of the homicide. From that, a DNA profile for a
suspect was able to be created. And that was entered into CODIS,
the Combined DNA Index System that the FBI maintains. That profile was then
immediately checked against known and
unknown samples, both on the state level
and the national level. Every week or bi-weekly
that that profile was checked with no matches. NANCY GRACE: Investigators
are making progress. The DNA recovered
from the crime scene provides a unique
marker connected to the man they believe is
Marise Chiverella's killer. They don't, however,
have a name. They then turn to the
FBI'S profiling division in Quantico, Virginia
for a possible match. DEVON BRUTOSKY: Our criminal
investigation assessment officers went down to Quantico. And they presented our case. And they were given
a profile source of who to look for, who
might have committed the crime, and some
areas to maybe further the investigation, look
into these types of people from back then as to who
could be the suspect. With that, they--
they move forward with the old fashioned police
work and talking to people. However, again, it
became fruitless. 2018, advances
in DNA technology offer a glimmer of hope for
a breakthrough in little Marise Chiverella's murder. Parabon NanoLabs in
Virginia, a pioneer in the DNA process
called phenotyping, joins the investigation. MARK BARON: They
concluded that he was probably a Southern
European, Middle Eastern heritage. And I know that they said
with about 90% confidence that the suspect was
going to have either hazel or green colored eyes. Lieutenant Brutosky,
who was the troop and criminal investigation
unit section commander, he approached me and said that
they were working with Parabon about developing some
phenotype sketches of the potential killer. And he said we were gonna have
a press conference to update the community members on this. I said that sounds
like a great idea. We wanted to show the community
that, number one, this case, we're not giving up on it
and we're never going to. And number two, if you
recognize, maybe you see these sketches and
you recognize a person, give us a call. It was all about
getting potential leads. You know, we're only as good
as the community that we serve. So if the community can
provide us information, we will gladly take it. NANCY GRACE: The
press conference yields not a single lead. But it does introduce a new
twist in the investigation, Eric Schubert, a teenage
genetic genealogy prodigy, offers his assistance. I was homesick a
lot when I was a kid. So I would be, you know, home,
bored, annoying my mother, the typical things a
10-year-old would do. I would always see commercials
for genealogy, stuff like that. And then on one of these
occasions when I was home, my mother I suppose saw
one of those commercials again for a big genealogy site. And I guess the idea sort
of popped into her head, you know, you're home,
you say you like this. Here's my computer. Here's my account. How about you have some fun
with this for two weeks. I sort of just quickly
took a liking to it and I never put
that laptop down. ANTHONY PETROSKI: It
was February 5, 2020. And I received an email
from ES Genealogy. It was from a Mr. Eric Schubert. I had never heard of him before. And he had sent me an email
saying that he had seen our press conference in
regards to the Marise Ann Chiverella case. And he was looking into the
case himself and the history of the case, that it's one
of the oldest cold cases in the commonwealth
of Pennsylvania and that he saw the
pictures that Parabon gave us, the phenotype
sketches and that he thinks he could help. And so further in the email,
it says that he's a genealogist and he has 10 years of
experience, which at the time, he was only 18 years old. Now, he offered his
services pro bono. And he said he would love to
help and be part of this team. At the bottom of
the email, there was a link for his website. And I clicked on that. And it brought up his
website, very professional. The email was very well written. And there was a picture of him. And, I mean, no
disrespect by this, but he looked like a child. And I thought to
myself, is this real? I get a lot of emails
every single day. Can this be real? NANCY GRACE: It's an
extraordinary offer. State troopers
decide to meet the fresh faced teen genealogist. He came prepared like
it was a job interview. He provided us
contact information for two other police departments
so that we could go ahead and talk to them regarding
the work that he did for them. ANTHONY PETROSKI: Myself and
Corporal Barron had a coffee. Eric had an apple
juice and we sat there and he treated this like it was
the job interview of his life. But one thing that really
stuck out to myself and Corporal Barron was he said,
I can help solve this case. And he wasn't being
cocky when he said that. He was being confident. And there was something
about that confidence in an 18-year-old who
shows up at a coffee shop drinking apple juice
giving us his resume, showing us his work. It was impressive. I'm confident
enough that, like, when you're talking with
law enforcement on this, you're the expert in the room. And if you get
that relationship, you recognize that they are
on the investigative side when you have leads. And they know better
than you on that. But you might know better than
them on the genealogy side. If you get that
balance, it works. And we had the best
team working with PSP on the Chiverella case. So I think that
plays a lot into it. We walked away from
that meeting thinking that Eric was the real deal. NANCY GRACE: After
decades, the investigation is now in the hands of
a young genealogist, a teenager born more than
30 years after Marise Chiverella's murder. Eric Schubert brings more
than youthful expertise. He applies techniques he uses
to reveal a normal family tree. Except in this case, his goal is
to reveal the name of a killer. Forensic genetic genealogy
is the same process that I would do
to find a parent, find someone's grandparent,
that sort of thing. Except you're finding
a killer or a rapist. You don't know who
the DNA is from. You're working backwards. And it's a very effective
application of the technique. He would talk to me daily,
at the bare minimum weekly. ANTHONY PETROSKI: I would
describe it as a big brother, little brother. That's how I would describe
Corporal Baron and Eric. They were professional
with each other. But they also felt
comfortable with each other. So they can have those
talks where they could say, I don't think so. Look somewhere else. I don't think you're
right on that. And it was a good,
professional relationship. They had a very good rapport. NANCY GRACE: The friendship
between teenager Eric Schubert and a Pennsylvania State
trooper gives a comfort zone for the amateur genealogist
so he can focus on Marise Chiverella's murderer. Eric Schubert looks
for connections between the suspect's
DNA and local records. He studies archives, old
newspapers, and online sources. It's tedious work. But step by step,
Eric Schubert gets closer and closer to the heart
of the killer's family tree. He then comes
back to me and says, I think I have a
pretty good idea of what line of this family tree
our suspect is going to be on. Now, he prefaced
everything by telling me that, like, Italian
genealogy is very difficult because of records. Like, they may or
they may not exist. ERIC SCHUBERT: I was giving him
names of people that I thought were connected in some way. And he was basically just
telling me hair color, eye color, do they have a record? Because it was a violent crime. We knew, you know, who did
this probably had a record. So we figured that was at
least a way to quell it down. Piece by piece, Eric Schubert
assembles the genetic jigsaw puzzle, until remarkably
he uncovers what has been hidden over half a century. The identity of Marise
Chiverella's killer. That's next on
"Bloodline Detectives." [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] NANCY GRACE: Hazleton,
Pennsylvania, 2020, 18-year-old Eric
Schubert, a prodigy in investigative
genetic genealogy, is close to solving the 1964
murder of nine-year-old Marise Chiverella. Marise disappears
walking to school. Just hours later,
she is found dead, the victim of a vicious
sex attack and murder. I'll never forget when we
really got the match, which was leading into
all this big family tree and these family members. We were able to determine
that there was a network. All these DNA matches who are
related to the subject are also related to this family. Our person who
did this also must be descended from that family. It wasn't a super strong match. But it just allowed
us to say, OK, we're doing something right. We know we're in
the right direction. Let's dive into this family. Schubert was giving Mark names
as to whom may be associated or related to the
specimen that had been found on Marise's blouse. Mark and I would
go out and obtain buccal swabs from
whom we believed would be family members. MARK BARON: We had gotten a
DNA sample from an individual. And it was like
1,100 centimorgans. And we're like, [EXHALES],,
that's like a first or a second cousin. Quite honestly, like,
when we went and we talked to this individual, I was
100%, and I'm being honest when I tell you this, I thought
that whomever I was looking for was still a distant
relation that was probably from New York or New Jersey. I didn't think that
it would be somebody that was from the area. When we had narrowed in
on this big family tree and we were really
getting into Hazleton and going through
some of these names, we basically whittled down
our list to four people. DEVON BRUTOSKY: Of
the four men, one was still alive at the time. We initially went down
and sat on his house with some undercover people. And we were gonna
pull some trash and get a DNA profile
from the trash. We waited a few days, and they
didn't put their trash out. So we decided that
Corporal Baron and Trooper Quiroz were just gonna do what
they had been doing all along. And they were gonna approach him
and explain what we were doing. And we're working on this case. And it would
significantly help if we could get your DNA profile. So the gentlemen agreed. We took his profile. Corporal Baron went
to the airport. We got our airplane. And he flew it to the DNA
lab out near Pittsburgh. And we had that
processed overnight. And so we were very eager
to get that because if this was our suspect, we were
gonna make an arrest. NANCY GRACE: The swab taken
from the potential suspect does not deliver the 100%
match investigators want. It does, however, point
them in the right direction. The Y-DNA from that
gentleman did not match. So now we were on
to two brothers. So there was two
brothers on one side and two brothers on the other. So once we knew this brother's
DNA didn't match, the Y-DNA, we knew it had to be one
of the other two brothers. JAMES QUIROZ: We looked
at criminal histories. We did our due diligence. We did our research. And we found that James
Forte had a criminal history. His brother Frank did not. His brother had passed about a
year prior to us getting there. Corporal Barron and I went and
visited Frank Ford's widow. And we asked her if
he had any belongings that may have DNA on them. She provided us a
couple of combs, hairbrushes, and razor blades
that had hair samplings on it. We then submitted
those to the lab. And they excluded Frank. NANCY GRACE: The power of
investigative genetic genealogy and the determination
of investigators combined to deliver
to a breakthrough-- a list of four suspects. It's reduced to a single name-- James Forte. James Forte was from
the Hazleton area. He had died in 1980
at the age of 38 of apparent natural causes. He was a bartender. From the limited information
we have on James Forte, because his name did
not appear in our report from the original investigators,
in 1974 he was arrested and charged for involuntary
deviate sexual intercourse, indecent assault, and
aggravated assault. That was in 1974. And then I believe in 1978,
he was arrested, according to the newspaper, for
recklessly endangering another person and
harassment by communication. NANCY GRACE: The evidence
against James Forte is strong. But it does not prove
with an absolute 100% certainty he is the
man that cruelly murdered Marise Chiverella. To be sure Forte's the
killer, investigators need a warrant to
exhume his body and extract a DNA
sample from his bones. Corporal Barron and
the Luzerne County District attorney's office,
they went before a judge, had a hearing. And all my work was
approved by the judge to approve the exhumation
order of James Paul Forte to be exhumed to prove if
he was the one who did this. We exhumed his remains. Started at like 7:00 AM. And we wanted to do it with
the least amount of fanfare and the least amount
of knowledge by anybody that we were doing it to avoid
any type of media frenzy. The pathologist was there. He collected some
samples that were sent off to the DNA lab for testing. And ultimately,
we got our result. This is a result
that, even by today's standards of forensic
science, it's extraordinary. We find out why next on
"Bloodline Detectives." [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] NANCY GRACE: Hazleton,
Pennsylvania, 2022, after 58 years and thousands
of hours of detective work, Pennsylvania State police
know with certainty who murdered nine-year-old
Marise Chiverella. I got a call from
Jeff Sacchetti, who's our lead DNA guy out there. And he said you got him. And I said, sorry. He said you got him. And I said, what have we got? And he said 1 in 25
or 1 in 27 septillion, that only one person
in that many people could have that
DNA profile match. And it was a good day. I called everybody to my office. And we celebrated. Lieutenant Brutosky came down
to my office and he walked in. And I think all
he said to me was, hey, I just got a phone call. We got him. I would say relief that
it was finally over. Because working that case
for, like, four years. And being a supervisor,
I didn't have a caseload. So, like, the only
case that I ever worked was Chiverella for four years. ERIC SCHUBERT: Of
course, you know, my heart dropped when they-- they called me. I picked up the phone and I just
said, please tell me it's done. And they said, yeah, it's done. And that was it. And, like, I still get
emotional now talking about it. So it's just like, two
years of work boils down to, you know, it's done. I was like in
shock for a minute. Like, from 1964 to 2022,
and it's being solved now. It was an awesome feeling. It really was a
great feeling to know that we were able to
do this for the family and the community members. That everybody that went
through this together NANCY GRACE: The team
holds a press conference and goes public with
the incredible news. They ask Eric Schubert, who
joined the investigation as an 18-year-old
amateur genealogist, to share his experience. ANTHONY PETROSKI: He
delivered a wonderful speech, addressing how proud he was
to be a part of this team, addressing the
Chiverella family, the fact that they will
always mean something to him. He's an impressive kid. And he won over a lot of
people during that press conference, community
members who have never met this young man before. They-- they were--
they were blown away. ERIC SCHUBERT: When I
first started this case, I printed out a
picture of Marise. I kept it with me. And I always had it. So that's what I think
back on and I look at. She is why we were doing
the work and her family. DEVON BRUTOSKY: I think
Eric is a young man well beyond his years, a brilliant
person in the research that he's doing. And I'm very thankful that
he called us that day. KRYSTEN QUINN: Marise's
case was the fourth oldest case in the entire nation. And I think for it to
be solved in Hazleton, they felt a major sigh
of relief to finally know who did that to Marise
and that he only lived until 38 years
old and he could no longer hurt anybody else. MARK BARON: I don't
know if there's really gonna be closure for the
family or for maybe even, like, the people
who knew Marise. I think one thing
that you could say is that maybe the community
could start to heal after 57 and a half years. DEVON BRUTOSKY: It was a
big deal for our community. And I believe it's
a big deal anywhere. We were the oldest
case in Pennsylvania to use forensic
genetic genealogy to solve a case in the country. I think we had one of the
oldest cases to be solved. So we knew that
pressure was there during the news conference. However, I felt good because
the family had closure. NANCY GRACE: The news that the
mystery of Marise Chiverella's murder is finally solved
brings some comfort to her brother Ron. But it can never lessen
the pain of his loss. RON CHIVERELLA: It
doesn't give me closure. It gives me answers. I have answers of who
the individual was. I've even had someone
say, well, now you have-- you can-- you can heal. OK, well, I'll never
have Marise again. I'm limited because I never
met the nieces and nephews I would have had from Marise. I don't know who her husband
would have ever been. So all of those absences
over the last 50 some years our family was
robbed of, needless to say, of the main entity that
we lost was Marise. NANCY GRACE: After
the press conference, the Chiverella family
invites the whole team to an intimate memorial and
Marise's final resting place. ANTHONY PETROSKI: We
set the vase of flowers with our Pennsylvania
State police patch next to her headstone. And we had a moment
there with the family. And it was-- it was-- a it
was a very surreal feeling, it really was. And my part in this
was very minor. I was proud to be
there with that family, knowing that the
department that I worked for, the Pennsylvania State
police were able to give this family closure. MARK BARON: We have a
close bond and a friendship that's-- that's grown
out of this tragedy. If there's any positive thing
that could be gleaned from, you know, this type
of an investigation is that, you know, like I've
been able to form friendships with the Chiverella family. NANCY GRACE: Without the
groundbreaking science of investigative
genetic genealogy, a case nearly 60 years old
would never have been solved. RON CHIVERELLA: It seems to be
expanding across the country. And that's a wonderful gateway
for so many individuals like my family to get more
answers to what really happened to their loved ones. Solving the tragic murder
case of Marise Chiverella, just nine years
old, is incredible. It's about the
success of the science of investigative
genetic genealogy. And it's about
thousands of hours of determined detective work. But still, there's more
to the story than that. It's also about the contribution
of a remarkable teenage boy who achieves the extraordinary,
providing answers to a long-grieving
family, answers they waited to hear almost 60 years. I'm Nancy Grace. Thank you for being with us
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