Ashley Flowers

The sketch that's published in 2008 doesn't generate any promising leads.

And that, in 2008, was the last real update in this baffling case.

If they did, it never made it into reporting.

And keep in mind, like, just how much Lake Waco unraveled is in the eye of the beholder.

And if the beholder is the great state of Texas, it never unraveled at all.

Sure, Munir Deeb won his appeal.

He was acquitted at a retrial.

But the convictions of the other three defendants were upheld.

And the official party line is that

They all died in prison, guilty men, including David Spence, who was executed in 97 for his supposed involvement.

And if you remember, like, there have been a few attempts pushed by, like, private parties to test DNA evidence in the Lake Waco case, which there is DNA evidence in the Lake Waco case, but all of those have either been unsuccessful or have stalled for reasons that are, like, too convoluted to get in here.

Again, go listen to the episode.

The long and the short of it is, as far as I can tell...

No DNA profiles from Lake Waco have ever been entered into CODIS.

I don't even know if they were fully processed because, again, there was no CODIS when Andy and Cheryl were murdered.

Lake Waco was even years before that.

And at that point it was closed.

Yeah.

And to me, this is like baffling.

I can't even understand why they wouldn't.