Morgan Absher

I think in Illinois, that wouldn't happen for another year.

In Missouri, it was like...

three years away and so they don't have this big database I mean we talk about CODIS quite a bit it wasn't vast as it is now right but we do see in a lot of the cases we cover that they hold on to some of that DNA for later and then that's how a lot of these matches are made so at least there was a little bit of foresight but yeah they were still really hopeful because at least now they had a sample they had something ready for comparison that when they did find a suspect their suspect

Like Yvonne, Brenda's body was examined with an SA evidence kit.

And again, investigators were able to recover enough semen for a DNA profile, which is clue number five for us.

When investigators compare the samples from Yvonne and Brenda, they learn that the two unknown DNA samples were indeed a match, which made it official.

They now had forensic evidence to prove a link between at least two of the murders.

I'm like, when we look at other cases we've had, like, Gilgo was kind of inconsistent.

Some had burlap sacks.

Some didn't.

Right.

You guys don't really know anything right now.

You don't have a lot to go on.

So why be so, like, conclusive that, no, these are not connected?

Just interesting to me.

On May 19th, 2002, almost a year after Teresa Wilson's body was discovered, a reporter named Bill Smith shared her story in the local paper.

Now, I really want to give some credit to Bill Smith and others at this paper because according to Bill, this is why he wrote that article.

And we're going to play a clip so you guys hear it in his words.

Again, we talked about at the beginning, times have kind of changed in how we maybe prioritize cases involving sex workers.

But again, people were not treating these women, these victims, even with an ounce of humanity, it seems.