Mindy Montford

It put chills in us because it literally involved a strip center, a business in a strip center.

A woman had been shot in the head with a .380.

She was naked from the waist down.

And then they set the place on fire.

I couldn't get on a plane to Lexington fast enough with the police.

I was like, let's go tomorrow.

We've got to figure out more about this case.

And so that was our first, aha, oh my gosh, the first phone call.

Then that basically led Dan Jackson to say, well, wait a minute.

We have not done a national request for...

for local crime labs to run our DNA, our YSTR, our male profile that was unknown.

In 2019, we had asked for crime labs across the country to do what's called a manual keyboard search, where they actually manually enter the DNA

components yeah very time consuming maybe it matches yeah very time consuming and a lot of labs don't have the time to stop and do it for you so it's really kind of a hail mary but in 2019 we had done that and not had any results but here we are with this niben lead now and dan thought you know what let's do it again let's have another request so that goes out and we get this hit

to South Carolina, and then we can't find out a name or anything about it for three weeks while legal figures out if they can release it to us.

It was crazy.

I mean, the craziest thing is when we were waiting for three weeks,

I was told that it matched to a serial killer in South Carolina.

So you mentioned Google.

That's what I was doing.

I was Googling serial killers and nothing came up on Robert Brashears.