Ashley Flowers

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.

But this goes back to like the whole first case where it's like they want to be right more than they want to find the truth.

But Cheryl and Andy's case, this case, is still unsolved today.

Before you ask, yes, they have considered genetic genealogy.

It might even be in the works.

Or not IgG exactly.

A lot of reporting seems to conflate familial DNA with genetic genealogy.

And the HPD declined to give us a comment, so, like, I couldn't get a ton of clarity.

And actually, to be exact, they told us they had to respectfully decline to comment due to the sensitivity of the investigation.