Top 10 Cold Cases Solved with DNA

the golden state killer's dna profile was up in the fbi's codis system which is the fbi's dna database welcome to watch mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 cold cases solved with dna the smoking gun turned out to be a water bottle obtained from de salva's nephew for this list we're looking at criminal cases that were solved years later with the help of dna analysis which of these stories do you find the most fascinating let us know in the comments number 10 the oldest cold case solved with dna in june of 2021 a cold case from 1956 was finally solved this 65-year gap makes it the oldest american cold case ever solved with the use of dna in january 1956 teenage couple dwayne bogle and patricia kalitsky were found dead vibrant individuals that were well liked among their peer group three dozen suspects were questioned in the case but the culprit was never caught however the killer may have been living right under their noses just one mile from kolitsky in 2001 a single sperm cell was found on a vaginal swab detectives then used genetic genealogy to identify a new suspect the now deceased kenneth gould the sheriff's office says kenneth gould is the likely suspect in the 1956 murder of 18 year old dwayne bogle dna taken from gould's children confirmed the results there's a lot of people who have suffered over the years with the loss of their loved ones and to be able to give them some type of closure doesn't make me happy number 9. beer can dna in the winter of 1996 the manager of orlando's little champ food store was found dead the man terence paquette had been stabbed to death it was a very gruesome violent scene the case went unsolved for decades until the orange county sheriff's office opened a cold case unit in the late 2010s in the store detectives found droplets of blood that didn't belong to the victim it was believed the killer had injured himself in the attack this blood was tested through genetic genealogy and pointed to a man named kenneth stau jr and once we were able to identify potential persons of interest we then looked into their life and seen where they were in 96. stau was put under surveillance and when a detective noticed him throwing out a beer can he swabbed it for dna the dna on the item that he had matched the dna to the crime scene it was a match and led to style's arrest number eight the murder of sherry rasmussen recent university graduate sheri rasmussen was hoping to become a critical care nurse instead she was killed in february of 1986. 29 year old newlywed beaten and gunned down in her own home after police found her body in her apartment they concluded there had been a botched burglary but rasmussen's father wasn't convinced suspecting lapd officer stephanie lazarus the former lover of rasmussen's husband police were dismissive telling him he watched too much television but decades later in 2009 other detectives revisited the case and covertly collected dna evidence from a cup that lazarus had discarded the sample matched dna from a bite mark on rasmussen's body i'm really shocked that somebody would be blame saying that i did this i mean we had a fight so i went and killed her i mean come on lazarus was sentenced to 27 years to life in prison number 7. the killing of patricia beard in july of 2013 denver police solved its 100th dna cold case the case was that of 32 year old patricia beard who was found dead in her apartment back in 1981. investigators realized that the killer had climbed a pipe and entered beard's apartment through the window the apartment was swabbed for dna but the case quickly went cold decades later a man named ector bencomo inohos was arrested and sent to federal prison in pennsylvania as is custom a dna sample was taken from the prisoner and fed into the federal database it matched the dna found at the beard crime scene and the defeated bencomo inohos pled guilty to her murder number six the seattle slaying this killer almost got away with it back in january of 1972 samuel evans broke into the home of jackson and daisy schlee killed jackson and assaulted daisy i didn't kill anybody but being involved is enough daisy survived the attack but died in 2007 without seeing justice done two years later the 73 year old evans was released from prison on unrelated charges when he moved to washington state he was required to give a dna sample as a registered sex offender it matched the dna taken from daisy's clothing so back into handcuffs evans went the judge sentenced evans to a maximum of 20 years decades after the crime he was formally charged in the case do you have any wrong all right do you have anything else to say yeah number five the murder of crystal bezlanowicz on the cold winter morning of december 15 1995 the body of crystal bezlanowicz was found on the bank of utah's provo river despite extensive efforts the trail went cold however the case was eventually reopened in 2006 and the dna taken from the crime scene was studied with more advanced technologies finally they were able to use the mvac and the mvac sprayed a sterile solution down onto the evidence onto those rocks and vacuumed up 42 times more than what they needed to actually produce that dna profile it was eventually matched to an ex-convict named joseph simpson who was arrested for a separate killing back in 1987. investigators tracked down simpson who was now living in florida with his mother they put him under surveillance and collected dna from a cigarette he'd smoked it was a match to the dna found at the beslana witch crime scene and simpson was once again arrested number four the grim sleeper between 1984 and 2007 the grim sleeper killed at least 10 people including a teenage girl however he was supposedly inactive between 1988 and 2002 leading to his unique moniker the grim sleeper evaded police for decades in 2008 the dna of one christopher franklin who had been convicted of a felony was found to closely match the dna taken from the grim sleeper while christopher was too young to have committed the 80s killings investigators took an interest in his father lonnie david franklin jr it's called familial dna because it is the dna not of the ultimate suspect but of a very very close relative pretending to be a waiter an undercover police officer collected a pizza that loni had partially eaten the dna was a match and lonnie was arrested lonnie david franklin jr is now the poster suspect for the expansion of genetic crime fighting number three the boston strangler this notorious case terrorized the east coast of the united states between 1962 and 64 13 women were killed in the boston area many were strangled with a nylon stalking the crimes were eventually attributed to a man named albert desalvo who confessed and recounted many details that had been kept from the public a man did confess to the string of killings back in the 1960s but he was never convicted he was imprisoned for life but the veracity of his confession has been debated news reports from that time suggested because there were so many different victims de salvo may not have been the only strangler in 2013 however investigators took dna from desalvo's living nephew it closely matched dna found at one of the crime scenes desalvo's body was subsequently exhumed and his dna was found to be an exact match but advances in forensic science have now tied desalvo to the strangler's final victim 19 year old mary sullivan number two btk i had many what i call them projects there were different people in the town that i followed watched playing to a killer's ego often reaps rich rewards btk killed 10 people between 1974 and 1991. the case became notorious for both the number of victims and because the killer sent taunting letters to the media bragging about his crimes he even suggested they use the nickname btk however the case went cold after 91 and btk probably would have gotten away with it if he didn't get cocky in 2004 he again began communicating with the media btk asked the police if a floppy disk could be traced and when they encouraged him to send one in he did so investigators found metadata on the disk linking it to one dennis raider dna taken from raider's daughter closely matched the dna taken from a crime scene and raider was arrested he is currently serving life in prison dennis rader pleaded guilty to 10 counts of murder and was sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences before we continue be sure to subscribe to our channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one the golden state killer he is evil beyond comprehension one of california's most notorious criminals the golden state killer killed at least 13 people between 1974 and 1986. he also committed dozens of sexual assaults and 120 home invasions the case went cold for decades until investigators fed the killer's dna into a family genetics website by building family trees they were able to trace the dna to an elderly man named joseph deangelo dna was taken from the door handle of d'angelo's car and a tissue he had thrown out it was a direct match to the golden state killer and deangelo was finally arrested you admit that special circumstance to murder in the first degree on august 21 2020 shortly before deangelo turned 75 he was sentenced to life in prison it must have given you some pleasure yes i feel there's closure i know where he is now i've taken pictures of this building i know where he is and this is hopefully he'll stay here until the day he dies do you agree with our picks check out this other recent clip from watchmojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos you

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Length: 11min 5sec (665 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 12 2022