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foreign [Music] Niles has this brutal Savage murder there are kids that grew up locking
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their doors and being scared when they went to bed at night just because of this case
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Roxanne wood in 1987 was married to Terry Wood Roxanne and Terry went to the bowling
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alley and arrived in separate cars Roxanne left earlier than Terry he just wanted to keep with the fun he was
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having and Roxanne wanted to get home and go to bed Terry arrives home and notices Roxanne
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laying in the kitchen he notices a pool of blood on the floor she was bleeding profusely from her neck
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oh my God my wife has been murdered my wife has been murdered I answered the phone and I could tell something was bad
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wrong he just broke down he just said someone murdered your sister Iraq being the rock of the family
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she didn't have an enemy out there who just randomly breaks in and does this to someone
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she was sexually assaulted the assailant left his DNA but in terms of the essential evidence based on what was
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there this went cold fairly quickly did it not based off of what they had to go on yeah the DNA technology wasn't there
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to really to follow up and go through on and there was absolutely not a lot more
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to go off how frustrating was it that no one had been arrested no Beyond frustrating
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foreign starting to lose hope Dr Ashland Kirsten and I had been talking about involving the students at
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Western in a Cold Case project when we first got the file it was just an amazing amount of data
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it just looked overwhelming some of the documents are older than I am then we would have to sort through if it was
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relevant information or not hours upon hours to scan all this stuff they were able to organize that report
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where we were able to put a key word in and search across that entire document 3500 Pages how important was that hugely
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important I was hopeful that we would be able to solve the case or move the case
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forward or that someone who came after us would the first thing that I did was I
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requested access to the case File it was very easy to read through quite quickly
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due to the work of the students Gabriella Vargas is a genetic genealogist probably one of the best in
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the country if not the world but I'm also a pink haired tattooed mom from California
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who enjoys woodworking and gardening describe the size of the DNA material that you had to work with it was 28
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picograms so small that you could never see it with the the naked eye just a speck of a speck of a speck very very
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very small amount of DNA it was deemed unsolvable prior to my involvement Roxanne Woods family was my motivation
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for working as hard and as fast as I did they never gave up hope that one day Justice would be served
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they have a Facebook page Janet Wood had made a post on the page one day Rock one day and I screamed out
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at the top of my lungs no today's your day Rock today's your day