Ashley Flowers

George was convicted of assault with a firearm.

That conviction is how his DNA ended up in the system, but not right away.

Just before he was released, he was swabbed and his DNA was entered into CODIS.

So in 2021, with George's DNA finally in that system, Avon PD was able to connect him to their old case from 1984, another sexual assault slash kidnapping.

So George was eventually convicted of that and sentenced to 25 years for kidnapping.

But because it had taken so long to connect him to the case, sadly, the statute of limitations on the sexual assault had run out.

The victim in his 1984 case survived.

But without going into too much detail, there were a lot of similarities to Janet's case.

Johnston was able to obtain a search and seizure warrant for George's DNA because they couldn't just use his profile and CODIS for a direct comparison.

George refused to talk.

He didn't even ask why they were there.

But they didn't need him to talk.

Just need him to open wide.

They swabbed his cheek, sent the sample off, and...

In 2025, Detective Johnston reached out to a colleague, Michael Sheldon, a supervisory inspector for the state's cold case unit, to see if he had any ideas.

And he did.

So Detective Johnston did just that.

She blew Janet's card up, and by March of 2025, Janet's face was hanging in the McDougal-Walker Correctional Institution.

And in roughly two months, Detective Johnston had a new lead.

When Detective Johnston spoke with the witness, at first all the guy was interested in was the reward money.