Ashley Flowers

Not with this case.

Detectives, again, years later, finally get a warrant for Aaron's DNA.

Hopes are high that they're about to solve this case that has haunted the city once and for all.

When the results come back, everyone is probably holding their breath.

But Aaron is not a match.

That's a big if, isn't it?

And to state the obvious, that same logic applies then to all the men who have been ruled out like so far through DNA comparison.

Like unless you've got an airtight alibi or something, which I'm sure some of them do.

But I don't have insight into any of that.

Who was ruled out through alibi?

Who had an alibi when their DNA was ruled out?

I don't know.

All I know is at some point in the 90s, the suspect profile does get entered into CODIS when CODIS becomes a thing, but there are no hits in CODIS.

And that activity on the case, it kind of just like ebbs and flows then throughout the years.

Like it picks up a little bit in the mid 90s when a reward is announced, but like nothing happens.

It's just like dead end after dead end.

No, like that's what makes this case so challenging.

It truly felt completely wrong.

Like this killer blew into town, committed one of the most heinous crimes these officers would see in their careers, and then was gone before the sun came up, never to return again.

Or at least that's how it seemed for many years.