David Muir

He goes, are you sitting down?

I said, yeah.

He goes, have we got a hit?

From a 1998 unsolved case out of Kentucky.

I still get chills thinking about it because when Dan started reading me the police report and I'm hearing this victim was shot in the head with a .380, possibly sexually assaulted, and the business was burned.

But we could find no connection between other than that gun.

It was still on the name.

So we still don't know who did it.

At that point, Dan Jackson asked crime databases across the country if they would do something called a manual search, upload only the strand of DNA that they have into their databases to see if there was a possible match.

So we reached out to all the labs and asked them to do this.

All the states returned information saying no hits, no matches, except one state.

South Carolina said yes, and that was a huge break.

Bingo, a lead 34 years in the making.

And suddenly, we've got a serial killer on our hands.

After 34 years, Austin authorities have gotten a big break, like nothing else in this investigation so far.

But little do they know, it's been years in the making thanks to a new science called genetic genealogy.

There's one name in this area that really stands out, and that's CeCe Moore.

C.C.

Moore's investigation actually kicks off with a different cold case from 1998 in a Midwestern town 800 miles away from Austin.

Megan Shear was laying near Sherry.