Morgan Absher

Won't let them kill me.

It's all about you.

This whole letter, it's all about you.

Students, you guys.

Very likely still five, if not six out there because Mary Shields still has not conclusively been linked to Travis yet.

So if Mary Shields isn't included in that list, then we're only at 11 and there's six potential more victims out there.

And honestly, I'd be curious what you guys think about this, but I really don't think he was lying about 17.

Yeah, I saw somewhere and I don't remember the exact years, but it was like something like 341 people were found and they were unidentified between like 2000 and 2018 or something like that.

So.

There's a lot that is now being brought to light because of this amazing partnership and this forensic genealogy.

I mean, this just happened this year.

So I think there's a lot that is going to continue to be discovered with this technology.

So as for the first four East St.

Louis murders in the early 2000s, police still believe that those have nothing to do with Travis.

There was a man named Donald Young who was arrested in January 2002 after DNA evidence tied him to a sexual assault of another sex worker.

He was eventually charged with three of those killings and suspected of the fourth.

But after he was already in prison, a key witness that was expected to testify against him was actually killed in an unrelated stabbing.

The prosecution's case pretty much fell apart after that.

And after spending more than six years in a Missouri prison without being tried for the East St.

Louis murders, the charges were dropped.