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[TENSE MUSIC] NANCY GRACE (VOICEOVER):
Garden Grove, Orange County, California, 1976.
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19-year-old Janet Stallcup goes
missing on her way to a party. Eight days later,
Janet Stallcup's body
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found in her car. The young woman, the victim
of rape and strangulation. She was inside the
car, lying on her back.
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Her head was against the
inside portion of the door. It was apparent
due to her position
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that she had been
sexually assaulted. NANCY GRACE (VOICEOVER): Police
will learn of a very similar
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attack in the same area. As soon as I ran
outside, I was grabbed and a gun pointed to my temple.
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It happened so fast. NANCY GRACE (VOICEOVER):
Years will pass, and both cases go cold.
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This is the story of
two sex assault victims. One is a survivor, the
other, tragically murdered.
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Their cases go unsolved
45 years until science and determined police
work bring answers.
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I'm Nancy Grace, this is
"Bloodline Detectives." [THEME MUSIC] [TENSE MUSIC] NANCY GRACE (VOICEOVER):
Garden Grove,
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California, a small
city located in Orange County just south of LA. [GENTLE PIANO MUSIC]
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December 19, 1976,
Janet Stallcup leaves her apartment
to go to a party. The 19-year-old nursing
student never gets there.
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Her roommate becomes worried
when Janet doesn't come home. The roommate calls
Janet's family, 2:30 AM.
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DAVE DIERKING: On Sunday,
December 19 at approximately 8:30, the friend was on
the phone at the time,
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watched Janet actually
leave their upstairs apartment carrying a paper sack
with an unopened bottle of wine.
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And her intention-- Janet was, was to walk to
her car in the parking lot and go to that party.
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And that car was a
white 1962 Ford Falcon and it was parked in
the parking lot there.
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LEE NEIL: Apparently,
at some point, she stopped off
either to get gas, or to get some gum, or
something to drink or something,
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and that was it. She was just gone. [TENSE MUSIC] It was so out of character
for her not to be responsible.
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So immediately, we kind of
thought, oh, this is not good, but of course, always hopeful
that it would just turn out
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to be a mistake or a
lack of communication somewhere along the line. NANCY GRACE (VOICEOVER): Garden
Grove Police begin searching
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for Janet Stallcup and her car. DAVE DIERKING: There
was a grid search that was completed
in a police Explorer,
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looking for her and her car. Found her deceased in the
parking lot of Franciscan Garden
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Apartments, and that
was located at 13161 Yockey Street in Garden Grove. It's a large complex,
there's 150 apartments,
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and it was
approximately 2.5 miles from her apartment on Dale. And that would have
been eight days
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after she walked out that door. NANCY GRACE (VOICEOVER):
Police immediately look
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for evidence, hoping
to establish how the teen nursing student died. DAVE DIERKING: He would call the
coroner's office, who would have
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a investigator come out,
who would examine the scene and take possession of the body.
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And then you would
start documenting uh, any potential evidence
that you're going to take.
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You'd fingerprint the
car, which they did there. And then they also secured
the car, impounded it,
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and did a further
investigation in the lab later. She was inside the
car, lying on her back.
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Her head was against
the inside portion of the door, which was locked. She was covered up with her
own gray fur-lined jacket.
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Her pants and her underwear
had been pulled down. Her left sandal was
still on her foot.
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Her right sandal was
off and it was found on the driver's floorboard. Her earrings were no
longer in her ears.
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She had what appeared
to be bruises and possibly a bite mark. Her top was torn. The keys for the car were
found near the front seat.
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There was a gum
wrapper that was found in the car, along with a
newspaper, a business card,
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and body fluids were
found in the front seat. It was apparent
due to her position
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that she had been
sexually assaulted. And it was noted that her watch
and her purse were missing.
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[FOREBODING MUSIC] NANCY GRACE (VOICEOVER):
Janet Stallcup's body is brought for autopsy.
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DAVE DIERKING: What
they found is a piece of gum that was in her throat. They took fingernail scrapings.
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They took tissue samples
from her, hair samples, and they collected what's called
a rape kit, where they swab
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and collect any potential
evidence that she'd been sexually assaulted,
which it certainly
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appeared to be the case here. The doctor, Dr.
Fisher, determined that she did die due to
a C3 cervical fracture
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to the neck with spinal
cord compression. And basically the
decedent's neck was fractured by the assailant.
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Garden Grove
detectives, now faced with the difficult task of
breaking the terrible news
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to Janet Stallcup's family. LEE NEIL: I had a
front bedroom so I could see when they
got out of the car
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and came up to the house. And you could just tell this
was not going to be good.
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I've never seen two more
devastated people in my life. You could just tell
they were devastated.
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She was a genuinely nice
person, generally wanted to make people happy, wanted to help.
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You really couldn't say
anything bad about her. She was-- she was quiet,
wasn't real socially outgoing.
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But she had a group
of very close friends that she stayed in
touch with, and they'd
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been friends since
elementary school, so everybody kind of
looked out for everybody
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else, which made the whole
thing that much more shocking. Because it's like,
wait a minute,
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this can't be happening here. DAVE DIERKING: Well,
I found an article and I think it sums it up.
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And it starts by saying,
"outraged by the brutal and senseless slaying of pretty
19-year-old Janet Aline Stallcup
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of Garden Grove, people
everywhere were calling in possible leads to the
Garden Grove Police Department,
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according to Chief
Frank Kessler." I think that sums up
what everybody thought of that particular crime.
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You would have tried to
time stamp at least 24 hours of her life, try to
determine, if you can,
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where she was captured. It appeared, I
think, to everybody, that she had been kidnapped,
most likely from the apartment
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complex, but they weren't sure. So they actually canvassed
all the liquor stores.
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They did tests on the car. They determined the car was
functioning, how much to gas.
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The area that she was found
in was a natural progression or direction that she
would take if-- if she
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was going to Santa Ana. Although, based on the evidence,
it's pretty clear to everybody
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that the capture, the
original kidnapping took place at the apartment complex. You would also go ahead and
process and compare prints.
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If you have anything
that is of print quality, you'd want it compared to
any potential suspects.
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And then you'd want to do
blood typing on the rape kit. Typically, DNA
samples are collected
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using a swabbing
technique, using a sterile cotton-tipped swab. Sometimes, other
collection techniques
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are used, such as cutting
out from the substrate, in the case of something
such as blood on a T-shirt
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or the mouth end of
a cigarette butt, you can cut that directly and
use that in your DNA testing.
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It just depends on
the sample type. But typically, swabbing
is what's used. The practices that you use
to avoid contamination,
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such as wearing personal
protective equipment, or gloves, or a face mask, to
avoid your own DNA
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getting onto a forensic
sample, was not done, um, back in the 1970s. NANCY GRACE
(VOICEOVER): Detectives
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now focus on finding
Janet Stallcup's killer as quickly as possible. They soon learn of another
kidnap and sex assault that
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occurred before Janet's murder. Are these cases linked? We find out next on
"Bloodline Detectives."
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[TENSE INTERLUDE] [TENSE INTERLUDE] NANCY GRACE (VOICEOVER):
Garden Grove, California, 1976.
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A 19-year-old nursing
student, Janet Stallcup, leaves her apartment to go to
a party, but she never arrives.
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Instead, Janet is found horribly
raped and strangled dead. During their
investigation, police
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learn about a
crime with striking similarities to Janet's. It's also a sex assault,
it's also a kidnap,
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and it happened very near
Janet Stallcup own apartment. But this time, the
victim survives.
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This particular
case, on November 17, there was a brutal kidnapping,
armed kidnapping, involving
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two suspects and a
female that lived very close to where Janet lived. Janet was my
next door neighbor.
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I didn't know her
well enough to realize that something was amiss. It just wasn't on my radar.
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And we had, um, neighbors. It was a father/son,
and they were carpenters, and
left really early
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in the morning to go to work. And the night it happened,
my car's battery had died.
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And I also was cognizant of
this father and son, where they were-- where their
car would be parked,
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it would be hard for them
to get out and not hit me. Wasn't sleeping well, and I
was worried about these guys,
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and I don't know what time
it was in the morning, but I heard what
I would have swore
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was them coming out talking. And so I put on my robe and
was going to run outside
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to tell them, [INHALES SHARPLY]
yeah, this is my car, this is what's going on. But as soon as I ran
outside, I was grabbed,
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and a gun pointed to my temple. It was, yeah, it
happened so fast. He pulls me. And I was barefooted.
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It was-- it was cold. But, you know, and
threw me in the car. And there was another guy
sitting in the front seat.
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And he turned around and
said, What's going on? So he had no, no clue. He raped me and then guy
in the-- in the front seat
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was like, dude, don't
do this, don't do this. What's going on? And his-- the way
he was sitting,
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this hand is over the seat and
he's got a wedding ring on. He tells him he's gotta
do the same thing.
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And he's like, no, dude. And then he points
the gun at him. [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] And so-- it was weird.
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Instead of going
out the door, he climbs over the seat to the
front, and this guy in the back.
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And I could tell by the
expression on his face that he was, you know, he was
not comfortable with this.
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And I said to him, (HUSHED)
"What would your wife say?" And if looks could
have killed, I mean,
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he just-- he just melted,
but then had the gun on him, and told him he
had to do the same.
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And then when it was
done, and drove away, and the guy opened up the
door, and said, "Get out."
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So I just kind of rolled
out, and just kind of landed. And we were still in the parking
lot, so I hid behind a car,
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'cause all I thought is,
he's going to stop and come back and try to get me. And I thought, if I
can hide under a car.
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And he just took off. So that guy, and I
don't remember his name, if it wasn't for him, I would
have been their next victim.
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It seemed like only
a couple of minutes, and then my husband, all of
a sudden, I could hear him.
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And he had been-- it was
a big apartment complex. And he had been running all
around, shouting my name,
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and his roommate too. And they had gotten, we
had some other friends. They were out
looking for me too.
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Never once did I hear
anybody calling my name. I'm thankful that they didn't
come upon us because many people
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could have been hurt. [MUSIC INTENSIFIES] NANCY GRACE (VOICEOVER):
Cindie Riley tries to deal with the horrible
ordeal she's just been through.
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I was ashamed, I was
embarrassed, I was shaking. Um, I had a-- a
kidney infection.
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I had started my period
in amongst all of this, so I'm just a mess. But the police were
there almost immediately.
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Garden Grove is a very
small little town. [MOURNFUL ORCHESTRAL MUSIC] They were wonderful.
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There were-- there
were no women. It was just men. And they were very,
very wonderful.
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I hid for a couple of
weeks, because the trauma, because of what I looked like. I just had to move forward.
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And my husband was amazing. I mean, he's still with me. And they moved-- the, um, Garden
Grove Police Department said,
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we don't want you living here
because he knows where you are. And that wasn't my apartment.
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I lived in-- I lived on the
other side of the complex with a roommate. And so we found a little
apartment complex in Costa
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Mesa, real close to the beach. And the Garden Grove Police came
out and vetted the apartment.
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They talked to the Costa
Mesa Police Department to let them know
what was going on.
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And, you know, life-- life moved on. [CHUCKLES] We got
married and [LAUGHS]. So, and then we moved out here.
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But I have always, always,
always looked over my shoulder. NANCY GRACE (VOICEOVER):
Garden Grove
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investigators still can't find a
suspect and the case goes cold. Decades later, a brand
new forensic science
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emerges to help detectives. But will this groundbreaking
weapon track down Janet and Cindie's attacker?
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That's next on
"Bloodline Detectives." [TENSE INTERLUDE] [TENSE INTERLUDE] [GENTLE MUSIC]
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NANCY GRACE (VOICEOVER):
Garden Grove, California, 2002. Investigators study
brand new advancements
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in forensic science. Will these
advancements help them catch a man who kidnaps and
rapes two women 26 years before?
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One of the women, a teen
girl, Janet Stallcup, murdered in the attack. The other victim, Cindie
Riley, amazingly survives.
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It was periodically looked at
throughout the years, every time that there would be some
new investigative tool.
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You know, to have a DNA
profile in 1997, that was on the forefront,
so obviously,
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that was one of the first
cases that they wanted to be examined for DNA, and it was.
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And then 2002, they
uploaded it to CODIS. ANNA DADHANIA: CODIS
is the Combined DNA
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Index System run by the FBI. It is a network of local, state,
and national DNA databases
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where local crime labs
in the United States will upload their unknown
crime scene profiles in hopes
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of getting a match
to the database to a convicted offender
or an arrestee. CODIS has its
limitations because it's
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limited to STR profiles,
Short Tandem Repeat profiles. The network that is
CODIS is what is also
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used for familial searching. That is limited to either
a direct comparison, so a direct one-to-one match
between a unknown DNA profile
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and a convicted offender
already in the database. Or if you do familial searching,
it is limited to a first degree
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relative, like a parent
or child, or a sibling. But there was never any hit
up through August of 2020,
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when they turned to this
new investigative tool that I was fortunate
to be a part of.
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So I worked one
of my assignments here at the DA's office. It was the DNA unit at the time.
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It's now called The
Science and Technology, and I was a rapid instrument
operator, one of the first here.
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And IGG came about when
I was not in the unit. And it had to do with
the desire by the office
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here to create a unit, because,
uh, they had, uh, observed the Golden State Killer
investigation, where there was
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four sexual assaults and
murders here in Orange County, have a successful prosecution
only because of IGG
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and the fact that identified
this unknown killer for all these years. NANCY GRACE (VOICEOVER): So what
exactly is Investigative Genetic
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Genealogy? Whatever it is,
it's revolutionizing how cold cases are solved. Investigative Genetic
Genealogy is the use of advanced
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DNA techniques and
direct-to-consumer genetic genealogy bases by
investigators to help identify
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a suspect of a crime
or help identify unidentified human remains. This is done by
sending a DNA sample
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from the crime to a private DNA
company to test them for SNPs. SNP stands for Single
Nucleotide Polymorphism.
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In all humans, over 99%
of their DNA is shared. However, scientists have
discovered locations
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within the genome,
singular locations called nucleotides,
that are known to have variation
from person to person,
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also known as being polymorphic. And that is what a Single
Nucleotide polymorphism or a SNP
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is. Once that sample is tested, we
receive back SNP DNA results that are then uploaded
to direct-to-consumer
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genetic genealogy
databases that allow for law enforcement searching. About 24 hours later, we'll
get a match list, which
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is filled with relatives
or potential relatives of the unidentified DNA sample. When we obtain a
match list, we also
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get a number called
a centimorgan that helps us determine the
possibilities of relatedness.
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This number tells us
how much DNA is shared between the two individuals. The higher that number, the
closer the relationship may be.
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[GENTLE MUSIC] We're looking for
matches that are in the second cousin
range or higher,
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hopefully, to help solve a case. Those cases are typically
easier to solve. Once the numbers get lower
and you get to a third cousin
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or fourth cousin range, then
the cases typically become harder and harder to solve.
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When we get this match list,
we'll identify the top matches, identify who is related
within those matches,
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and then determine
if there's any other DNA-related information
that could help us in our case.
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Once we identify
the top matches, we'll start building
family trees back in time
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from each of the
top matches and see if we can find any common
ancestors between these matches.
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If we can, then we
can start building the family trees forward in time
to help identify the suspect.
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We'll look for a suspect that's
within the suspect age range that we've determined
for the case,
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or within the correct
location, in this case, Orange County, and other
factors that would
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help us identify the suspect. This is the best
case scenario, but it doesn't happen in every case.
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It's the best case
scenario to actually solve a case using genetic genealogy. NANCY GRACE (VOICEOVER):
Investigative
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Genetic Genealogy, a
remarkable breakthrough in forensic science. But it, all on its own,
cannot solve cases.
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It must be combined
with the expertise and the painstaking work of
genealogists and investigators
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who make it work. We had relatively
very low matches. We had third cousin levels.
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Now, for me, this was
one of my first cases, and we built this tree with 36
different matches, and built
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it out to over 5,800 people. And we did not have any
direct link to Orange County
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where we could say, hey, let's--
let's look at someone like this. So what our thought was,
is the bottom-up approach.
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So we sought out any
potential surnames for the Y. And we were able
to get a surname
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search done using the Y-STR. ANNA DADHANIA: A Y-STR profile
is a set of markers that
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are tested along
the Y chromosome, that results in a DNA profile. The Y chromosome is
passed mostly unchanged
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between a father and a son,
so along the paternal line, they will have the
same Y-STR profile.
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So it is not identifying, but it
identifies a paternal lineage. And we were given
the name of Hawkins.
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NANCY GRACE (VOICEOVER):
Investigators are convinced they are just one
step behind a sadistic killer.
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Will he strike again? Investigators now have
a family name, Hawkins. But will they be able to catch
the man who sex assaulted
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and murdered Janet Stallcup? That's next on
"Bloodline Detectives." [TENSE INTERLUDE]
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[TENSE INTERLUDE] NANCY GRACE (VOICEOVER):
Garden Grove, California, 2021. 44 years after the
rape and murder
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of a nursing student,
Janet Stallcup, police are finally
closing in on a killer.
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Orange County
investigators are using Investigative Genetic Genealogy
to narrow down a suspect list.
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One family name
emerges, Hawkins. We went our tree, and
we had Hawkins in there.
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We also had 12 MRCAs, most
recent common ancestors, but those most recent,
the most recent was 1870.
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The most distance
was, like, 1620. So everybody sort
of related together. But we did have
Hawkins in there,
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but then again,
nothing ever came down. So what we did after
building the tree, looking at the Y
surname, is we decided--
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we had talked
about it and it was very apparent this
wasn't a first crime for whoever did this.
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So we started looking
at newspaper articles and fortunately, was able to
find two separate newspaper
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articles about a
Terry Dean Hawkins, after being arrested on July 4
for just being drunk in public
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in Newport Beach. And what was
significant about that is that he, at least in
the newspaper articles,
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they listed his address. I believe it was 9811 Russell in
the city of Garden Grove, which,
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if you plug it in, you find that
it's about a mile and a half from where Janet
Stallcup was found.
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ROBERT TAFT:
Investigator Dierking said that they were working
a cold case trying to solve,
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I believe it was
a rape/homicide. And they had identified a-- what they believe to
be a possible suspect.
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And in doing some research
on that individual, he had mentioned that this
person had been previously
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arrested by the Orange
County Sheriff's Department for homicide, of
all things, back in 1975.
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On April 28 of 1975, at
about 1:30 in the afternoon, a couple of land surveyors
were working in what is
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now Laguna Hills, California. Back then, it was
very rural, and I believe they were
doing some excavation
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for a possible new roadway. And as part of the surveying
process, they came upon a creek,
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uh, in what was referred
to as The Old Veith Ranch. And when they stopped and
looked down into the creek,
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they noticed the body of
a young woman face-down in the creek bed. Her name was
Guadalupe McClelland.
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She was really kind-hearted. We lived in Mexico for a
while before I was five. When I was going to start
school, we moved here.
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Um, she would help. Like, there would be some kids
that come by asking for food,
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and she would set
them down at the table and feed them, and then give
them a little pot full of food
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to take home to their
grandma, 'cause I guess they lived with their grandma. Every time they came,
she'd be like, sit down,
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eat till you're full, till
you're completely full, and then take this
home to your grandma.
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So she was, you know,
she was kindhearted. She was a good person. I was not ever allowed to spend
the night at anybody's house.
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And I had a best friend
that lived at the corner of our apartments. And I always begged,
"Please, let me."
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And my mom would say, no,
you cannot spend the night. And that night, for some
reason, she told me,
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you can go spend the
night at Marie's house. And I thought--
well, I was little,
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so I thought, OK, my mom
said I could spend the night. Oh, OK, great. Yeah, so then I went
and spent the night,
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and then I never seen her again. She left that night, and
then she never came back.
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NANCY GRACE (VOICEOVER):
Terry Dean Hawkins goes unnoticed by
detectives investigating
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Guadalupe McClellan's murder. It turns out that her husband
Robert noticed that she was
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missing, and went to the
Orange County Coroner's Office when they had heard that
the body of a young woman
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had been recovered. So what they actually
did at that time was, they went and viewed the body.
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And Mr. McClelland went down
and identified the young woman as his wife, Guadalupe.
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Once they identified
who she was, then they were able to backtrack
as to what she had done
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in the days prior to her death. And it turns out that she
was last seen at a bar called
00:28:18
JJ's in Santa Ana, California. So the investigators
went and talked to a number of the employees,
a number of the patrons
00:28:26
at the bar. And they relayed to the
investigators that they had seen her leave anywhere between
12:30 and 2:00 AM on the morning
00:28:37
of the 28th, with a young man
they described as a male, white, possibly 25 years
old, blond hair,
00:28:44
and kind of a stocky build. When they subsequently
followed up on that, in talking to those
individuals, they
00:28:51
learned of a possible employer
where this gentleman worked. And when they went and
contacted that employee
00:28:58
and provided them the physical
description of who that subject may be, the employer
immediately identified
00:29:04
the person as Terry Hawkins. So investigators went, contacted
him, conducted an interview,
00:29:11
and he admitted to being
at the bar that night, and to talking with Guadalupe. His story was, she had asked
him for a ride to Tijuana.
00:29:23
He says, I can't
take you to Tijuana. I can take you as
far as El Toro. And his story was that he
dropped her off at the Kenyatta
00:29:30
off-ramp off the Interstate
5 freeway at about 1:00 to 2:00 in the
morning, and that
00:29:36
was the last time he saw her. The investigators pressed him
a little bit more and said, OK,
00:29:42
can you show us the area
where you dropped her off at? And he agreed to accompany
the officers to that location.
00:29:50
While they were driving
to that location, they conducted additional
interview of him.
00:29:56
And during the course of that
interview, his story changed. Initially, he said
that he had not
00:30:02
had any sexual
contact with Guadalupe when they first approached him. During the second
interview, he admitted
00:30:08
that they had, uh, sexual
relations in the parking lot of the bar prior to
leaving, and that he dropped
00:30:17
her off at that location. And again, his story stayed the
same as, "Once I dropped her
00:30:22
off, I hadn't seen her
again," but now he alluded to the fact that,
"Yes, we had sex
00:30:27
prior to us going down there." [TENSE MUSIC] NANCY GRACE (VOICEOVER):
Unfortunately, investigators
00:30:33
do not have enough evidence
against Terry Dean Hawkins to prosecute him for
Guadalupe McClellan's murder.
00:30:42
He was actually charged. He was arrested and booked into
Orange County Jail for murder.
00:30:46
And the case was packaged
together and presented to the District Attorney. And-- and unfortunately, the
District Attorney decided not
00:30:55
to file charges against him. And I can speculate as to,
in my review of the records,
00:31:01
that it was primarily
circumstantial type case. So my belief is that
the District Attorney
00:31:07
just didn't think he could prove
it beyond a reasonable doubt. ANNEMARIE KARINA LEON: It
was a little devastating
00:31:12
that he initially was put
away for what had happened to my grandmother,
and then let go, which
00:31:18
allowed him to take
another person's life and affect another family. I see how it affected my
mom, and that was her mother.
00:31:26
So I can't imagine losing
my mother, or my sister, or my own son. I could not imagine that.
00:31:33
I don't think that
I could bear that. NANCY GRACE (VOICEOVER):
Detective Dave Dierking
00:31:38
is determined to give answers
to families of both teen girl Janet Stallcup and murdered
Guadalupe McClelland.
00:31:48
But he must match
Terry Dean Hawkins' DNA to DNA collected from
Janet Stallcup's rape
00:31:57
kit all the way back in 1976. I had to write
a search warrant for those histology blocks.
00:32:07
And, um, they did have them. They, uh, were able to-- actually, the forensic scientist
at the Orange County Crime Lab
00:32:19
was able to painstakingly
go through and process, um, these histology blocks,
which are basically
00:32:28
tissue samples within wax. And just by the nature
of it being so long, you have degradation that takes
place to these tissue samples.
00:32:39
But Bobby Benz was the
forensic scientist, and he did a tremendous job
and was able to get a profile
00:32:47
that we could compare. And it matched the actual crime
scene suspect profile that
00:32:55
was taken from the car seat
semen that matched the semen taken from Janet's body.
00:33:04
NANCY GRACE (VOICEOVER):
The "Bloodline Detectives" get the match they need. Terry Dean Hawkins
is, in fact, the man
00:33:11
responsible for teen girl Janet
Stallcup's rape and murder. Investigators focus on his
personal background now.
00:33:20
That's next, on
"Bloodline Detectives." NANCY GRACE (VOICEOVER):
Garden Grove, California, 2020.
00:33:35
Detectives identify
the man who raped and killed nursing
student Janet Stallcup all the way back in 1976.
00:33:45
His name, Terry Dean Hawkins. But now, detectives must
focus on the motives for the heinous crimes.
00:33:56
Wouldn't call
person a monster, but he, he certainly came
pretty close to that. I mean, his arrest record,
his first arrest was,
00:34:06
was 20 years old for
indecent exposure. And he had arrests in Orange
County for possessing handguns.
00:34:13
He had a shotgun, drugs. He had just a wide variety
of different arrests. Yet, it just didn't seem like
there was any accountability.
00:34:25
Investigators pore over
records to locate Terry Hawkins, but they won't find him alive.
00:34:33
Terry Dean Hawkins
was a drug addict, and he died shortly
after he murdered teen girl Janet Stallcup.
00:34:43
ROBERT TAFT: He died
in 1977 in Orange County Jail from an overdose. And that was one
of my questions,
00:34:52
was like, I wanted to know
what had happened to him. I didn't feel it fair that
he kept on living his life
00:34:58
when he took my mom's life. Then when I found out
that he had passed away, then I was OK with that,
so that now I can deal
00:35:04
with everything else, you know? I would have been really mad
if he, like, like nobody's
00:35:10
business, just kept
on living his life after he took my mom's life and
made such an effect on my life.
00:35:15
So yeah, that's brought some
closure to me, which is great, you know? Being alive and
doing life in jail
00:35:21
would have been too
good for him, you know, because my mom didn't
do anything to him.
00:35:25
I didn't do anything to him. And he changed my life. And I feel like,
who-- how dare he?
00:35:30
Who is he to change
my life, you know? It's unfair, but I don't
understand those kind of people,
00:35:37
so I don't know. You know, maybe he
had a hard child-- I don't know. CINDIE RILEY: I would have liked
to have seen him go to trial.
00:35:45
And I wanted to face him myself. I think that would have
been something that-- 'cause, you know, you can write
things out, you can practice,
00:35:55
but in the heat of the moment,
and when you're-- you're locking eyes with, with evil incarnate.
00:36:02
In fact, I may not even have
said anything, just, you know? Yeah, just, just to-- to
put eyes on him and say,
00:36:11
you didn't get me, dude. I'm here. You know, to put
it all into place and to put you behind bars.
00:36:20
And now he's gone,
and there are people out there that would really like
to have their own retribution.
00:36:26
But again, that's
out of our hands. And it's probably just
as well, in most cases,
00:36:32
so the universe
kind of works itself out, I think, in very
weird, painful ways, but works itself out.
00:36:40
That was one of the first things
I wanted to do when I found out was to go tell her,
"You can rest in peace.
00:36:48
He's been found." And I told that to
her mother, too. It's over. And, you know, even
though there's no vin--
00:37:00
nothing going
through the courts, he got his comeuppance,
probably better than if it
00:37:06
had gone through the courts. SONIA R. LEON: It
felt really good. It felt like I was finally
able to get some closure.
00:37:16
If I-- there was a person who
did it, so then I said, OK, and I know what happened to him.
00:37:24
So then that was the
end of my mom's story. I could get--
finally get closure. OK, this is what
happened to my mom.
00:37:31
NANCY GRACE (VOICEOVER): Janet
Stallcup's 45-year-old case could never have been solved
if investigators had not
00:37:38
preserved DNA evidence
from the original crime scene years before. You go through
the motions, and you
00:37:47
know what you have to do. And it's just,
every time that we ask for someone to help in this
case, they never denied it.
00:37:58
They never-- you know,
we had so much help. You know, the US Marshal
teams, the sheriffs, the, the--
00:38:07
it just, every-- everybody. I mean, the foundation
was laid, you know, when they collected the evidence
from the scene, you know,
00:38:17
48 years ago. [GENTLE VIOLIN MUSIC] You have the unsung
heroes that that kept that evidence, you
know, in the property room,
00:38:26
that never get a shout-out. But they had to keep it. They had to keep it
in the refrigerator.
00:38:33
They had to bag it. They had to log it. You know, things
get lost, displaced. And that is one of the big
issues with older cases, is
00:38:42
things get lost,
misplaced, they're not, you know, refrigerated
properly, can't get a profile.
00:38:49
And this was one where
they're truly a team effort. I was only a small
little part of, of it.
00:38:55
It happened to be
the closing chapter, but, absolutely a
testament to how everybody
00:39:01
works together and should. NANCY GRACE (VOICEOVER):
Janet Stallcup's case sends a strong message to
families of victims
00:39:10
and to perpetrators who
have not yet been caught. We hope that families still
have hope in their cases being
00:39:18
solved, because, whether
it's DNA or some other type of investigative technique,
science and investigations is
00:39:26
continually improving so that
there could be techniques in the future that can
be used to solve a case,
00:39:34
whether it's DNA, IGG, or some
other investigative technique. DAVE DIERKING: If there's
good DNA evidence, there's no
00:39:40
reason that you can't-- can't explore Investigated
Genetic Genealogy. It was bad, but out of this
has come good, because genealogy
00:39:52
solved this case. And otherwise, I would have
gone to my grave, you know, not knowing.
00:40:01
NANCY GRACE (VOICEOVER): Of
course, Terry Dean Hawkins' death in 1977 means he could
never be tried for the crimes
00:40:08
investigators are
certain he committed. Janet Stallcup's
family, however, is still able to get some
relief knowing Hawkins
00:40:19
is the perpetrator
who raped and murdered their beloved teen girl, Janet. Investigators are certain
this guy, Terry Dean Hawkins,
00:40:32
is also responsible for
the murder of Guadalupe McClelland back in 1975. Those same detectives and the
surviving victim, Cindie Riley,
00:40:43
are convinced Hawkins is
responsible for Cindie's sex assault in 1976. Case closed.
00:40:54
I'm Nancy Grace. Thank you for joining us here
on "Bloodline Detectives." [TENSE INTERLUDE]
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