Detective Andrew Houghton
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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Oho!
Hello and welcome to Somebody Knows Something, the Elgin Police Department Cold Case Podcast.
My name is Detective Andrew Houghton.
And I'm Detective Chris Hall.
Last episode, we detailed our plans to use NamUs in this case, because we believe that it is possible that White Terry has died and has been found but never identified.
Collecting and testing familial DNA is a step that we have to take in this case.
Unfortunately, when we started this journey, we had no fingerprints for her, no dental records for her, and no DNA.
Witeria is listed in NamUs, but listeners will recall from our last episode that NamUs has two different databases.
Witeria is currently listed in the missing persons database with all the information that we have for her, but we still need forensics to compare her case to any potential matches in the unidentified persons database.
Beth has been attempting to track down any fingerprint records for her, but she was never arrested, and at least at this point, we've not been able to find any job or any other situation where she would have provided fingerprints for us to compare against those unidentified remains.
Yeah, for sure.
A number of the unidentified remains are skeletal remains, so obviously there's no fingerprints.
But NamUs does include numerous unidentified human remains that also have latent prints.
Obviously, in a perfect world for any case, we would have all three.
We'd have fingerprints, dental records, and DNA that we could upload into CODIS.
But as we said when we started this case, we didn't have any of those.
Speaking of dental records, Matt and I had extensive dental records for Karen's case during Season 1.
In fact, the forensic odontologist told Matt that they were some of the most complete sets of records he'd ever used to identify someone.
Unfortunately, in several of our missing person cases on our current caseload, including Witeria's, we just simply don't have those kind of records.
And so that leaves us with the best form of records for missing persons cases, DNA.
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