Detective Christina Johnston

They had showed the gas attendant who was working that evening of the early morning hours of the 13th of October.

a picture of George's car.

And I believe they also showed him a photograph of George.

And the gas attendant did not remember the vehicle and did not remember seeing George.

They did take pictures of him, his body.

They took pictures of him with his shirt off to see if he had any type of wounds or bruising or anything like that.

They also did take photographs of his car.

On November 2nd, 1973, Vernon police receive a incident report from a woman who claimed that she had been kidnapped and sexually assaulted from a shopping plaza in Vernon, Connecticut, in the daylight hours.

And shortly thereafter, on November 8th, 1973, they arrest Georgia Gere for kidnapping in the first degree, risk of injury of a minor, and sex assault in the first degree.

and pretty much everything was a mixture or a complex mixture.

We did not have anything that was single source DNA.

So that made it difficult as well because we would have to get known DNA swabs from individuals to be able to compare it.

I was at my house, I was at home, and I was watching news, and I had learned that Georgia Gere had been arrested for a 1984 coal case out of Avon, Connecticut.

So this case is what kind of like really blew the doors off this entire thing, right?

This really got it going again.

Once I saw this case, I dug even deeper into the case file and found the Vernon case, the Vernon from 1973 case.

And then I found all the other cases from the 60s that had been documented and that were sitting in the case file.

On July 26th of 2021, myself and my lieutenant at the time, Lieutenant Olson, went to the prison where George Aguirre was being held because this was before he was on trial for the Avon case.

He was awaiting trial.

We went there to get the known sample.