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On the 13th of June 1993, I was on call as a team leader for our crime scene team. We had pagers then, no cell
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phones, and u I got a page. It was a sergeant requesting our assistance on the 21st floor of this high-rise
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apartment building. When you entered into the apartment, you didn't really see anything. You wouldn't
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have known that a crime had occurred. When you went a little further and you ended up going into the
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bedroom, it was catastrophic. When I proceeded to where the body was on the side of the bed, I looked down. I
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could see the imprint in blood that looked like a left foot and a right foot. It's an actual bare foot. I mean,
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wow. I turned the TV on. I saw the apartment. They said they just found a young woman in her early
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30s. Oh my. I just got chills all over. [Music] Don't tell me that was Jean. I called the corner's place and he
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said, "Are you all alone? You better get somebody over there with you because it
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it was your daughter. I couldn't believe it." Jeannie Childs had defensive wounds
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on her hands when they found her. She had been stabbed at least 65 times, including after she had
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died. Investigators took DNA evidence at the time. They could not find who it belonged to, and they hit a dead end at
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some point and moved on. And it wasn't until 2015 that a cold case unit reopened the
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case. A DNA profile was uploaded into myheritage.com and they found what could be a match.
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Jerry Westerm is a husband, a father of three, a businessman. He attended church. He was a hockey dad. Police
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expect Western to be charged with murder by noon tomorrow. Jerry doesn't have a demeanor of being a violent person. Have
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you ever seen him lose his temper? No. I believe tip my toes. He's not capable. Okay. He didn't do it.
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There was DNA from other individuals that did not belong to Jerry Westerm, but clearly belonged to a male source.
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We know that there were experts that viewed multiple footprints, and they're in her blood. The person who put the
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footprint down had to step in wet blood, and it had to be after she was stabbed or bleeding. How important did those
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footprints in blood become in this case? Without the footprints, we would not be
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sitting here. I think that the footprints defined the path of this case.