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in 1976 orange county california a young woman found dead just outside a military
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base they discovered her body laid out like she had been dragged out of a car she
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was nude there was no reason she would even gone out to that area so they could only
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assume that she somebody picked her up there is no clear suspect the case goes cold
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they had nothing to go on fingerprints didn't help them this case went cold but police begin to utilize a
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revolutionary new form of investigative science genetic genealogy in this case was huge
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it solved the case i mean you can't see anything more definitive than that i mean no one suspected this
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guy he wasn't on anyone's radar this is the story of leslie penrod harris and how an investigation that
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goes cold for 40 years finally heats up and is solved thanks to forensic genealogy i'm nancy grace this is
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bloodline detectives [Music] [Applause] [Music] orange county california located between
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l.a and san diego it's a very popular tourist stop the home of disneyland but
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it's also home to people of very diverse backgrounds a lot of people's perception of orange
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county is disneyland and the beaches and the great weather which we all have but orange county is
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much more than disneyland i would say we have a large variety of people that live in
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orange county i would say for the most part you know they're working professionals
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probably upper blue-collar professional type individuals orange county was a very unique
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cosmopolitan center in santa ana and in newport beach but the rest of the county
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was farmers and farmland so it was farmer it was cow man and it was cosmopolitan it was a mix of
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people americana at its very best on may 17 1976 costa mesa police are contacted by john harris he says his
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wife leslie penrod harris is missing leslie was married to john harris leslie was 29 years old at the time i
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believe john was 32 or 33. for the last several years prior to 76 they had been living in
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honolulu hawaii and because of various problems a job transfer the harris has moved from hawaii and
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we're going to relocate here in southern california and apparently according to
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mr harris a brunt of the problems in their marriage recently had been arguments stemming from their move from
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hawaii to california and a purchase of a condominium in the area that seemed to be some type of
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animosity between the two and so it was just john and leslie staying at the at a hotel in irvine
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on may 17th of 1976 about 8 30 9 pm they went to a restaurant at present-day south coast plaza
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apparently they had an argument at some point during their dinner and she got up and left the husband
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waited at the table for her and after some time she didn't come back he asked the
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restaurant staff if they'd checked the bathroom for her they did she wasn't in
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the bathroom they couldn't find her in the restaurant and after a couple of hours he eventually went home and then
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eventually made a police report that evening to the costa mesa police department that
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his wife had gone missing the search for leslie penrod harris does not last long
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at 4 30 a.m the very next morning leslie's found dead near the marine corps air station at el toro
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just north of san diego military police find leslie completely naked her body lying on a roadway just
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outside the base perimeter they discovered her body laid out like she'd been dragged out of a car she was
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nude and uh her hair appeared to be wet and she was just left on a sidewalk like
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that some patrol deputies went to the scene confirmed the situation a decedent and they had called the sheriff's
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homicide investigators she did have a couple minor injuries and it appeared that
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she had some wounds to her ankles from her body being dragged to the location where it was finally found
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the crime scene photos just show a uh the nude body of a female supine she's
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lying on her back there's no there's no blood at the scene police immediately began to collect
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evidence as best as they could obviously you know they're going to you know take fingerprints from any items
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that were you know found at the crime scene in this case there really wasn't
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anything other than her body uh at that time in 1976 it was very difficult and it might have been even non-existent to
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get fingerprints off of a body obviously they would have done a sexual assault kit but they didn't have dna at
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that point in time the most they could do was some type of blood analysis on the semen if the
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person secreted blood when she was her body was disposed of there was no per no clothing no personal
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property no wallet nothing like that at that point they were to stand still the area where she left south coast
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plaza to where she was found is about 20 miles away john harris had their car so she either took some
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sort of transportation she obviously didn't walk it's probably too late for the bus
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there was no reason she would even gone out to that area so the question was who would have
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picked her up and why did they kill and take her out to the marine corps area so now they knew that they need to
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talk to the people at the airport or inn where they were staying talk to the people who were at the
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riviera restaurant which is the last place that she was seen and most of all talk to the husband
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when a spouse especially a wife goes missing police immediately focus on the husband
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as the very first person of interest detectives hone in on john harris in this case they had no other
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suspects the police are obviously going to interrogate the husband and make sure
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his statements make sense make sure they're consistent in particular i think he admitted
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that they had an argument at the restaurant uh and you know that would be one of the first clues that maybe
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something wasn't right in their relationship and you know did he follow up and find
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her back at you know their house and do something to her i mean that would have been the thought process i would guess
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that the detectives had gone through and then she dumps her body you know far away from you know the crime scene
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they interviewed the waiter and he confirmed the story that john harris said that you know they had
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an argument she left he checked the bathroom saw a taxi cab leave thought maybe she
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might have been on that he couldn't really tell none of the adjacent businesses could
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say that she was in there and they looked around the parking lot they ended up checking with the cab company and
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there was no record of anyone picking her up at that time it was just he and leslie at a table
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some type of argument they could tell there was a little bit of tension at the table leslie leaves
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never comes back everybody's stories match to what john harris is the report john made with costa mesa police
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department match his story and the waiter story so his alibi was essentially clean as far as he didn't
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leave with leslie she never came back leslie was found 15 miles away at el toro air station
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there was no time in any of this timeline for john to have gone anywhere near el toro air station and
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come back his whereabouts were accounted for the police were really at a dead end
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investigators hope leslie's autopsy will reveal new clues they found a ligature on one of her legs
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ligature mark indicating that maybe her legs have been tied together at one point but there was no rope or anything
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found at the scene and then she had some bruising on the right side of her body uh indicating some sort of trauma
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and then they recovered they did vaginal swabs pretty routine in an autopsy and they
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discovered the seam and they preserved it but at the time they they didn't have
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any the forensic scientology back then was just not to the level it is now so but luckily they preserved it
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today law enforcement we're very spoiled we have cell phones laptops ring cameras surveillance cameras
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everywhere license plate readers dna is huge back then they had a witness and or a fingerprint
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but kudos to all the staff and all the crime lab folks who worked on this case back in
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the day because they had the wherewithal to collect swabs from leslie at the autopsy in 1976.
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el toro is a huge military facility and since leslie penrod harris is found so close to it police naturally suspect a
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u.s marine could be involved for someone to get onto el toro marine air station they had to have either a pass there had
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to be an employee or they had to have peculiar knowledge of how to sneak onto the base with someone not seeing them in
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other words somebody who was very familiar with the surrounding areas this individual
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that murdered her was probably a marine a woman savagely murdered near a military base 15 miles from her own home
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her husband seems to have an alibi so detectives begin to look more closely at just who was leslie penrod harris
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that's next on bloodline detectives [Music] may 1976 orange county california police
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investigating the murder of leslie penrod harris her body found completely naked on a roadway near the el toro
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marine corps air station now police want to know more about leslie she was a recent
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orange county resident having moved with her husband from hawaii and she'd been here in
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orange county for just a couple of weeks i think and she had been living at a hotel
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with her husband in orange county she was a girl who was looking for a new beginning a new future
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a new area in orange county which really it was boomtown orange county in 1976 was a
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boom town she was coming to the mecca where you could make a good living and that's what she wanted and that's
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the kind of gal she was very easy going her friend said she was very admirable a great friend
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wouldn't hurt anybody was married living in hawaii had a job moved back and was
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going to start a new life on the west coast her and her husband put a deposit on a condominium and then lake el toro
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lake forest to now begin the second chapter of their life apparently leslie wanted to buy
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a home either a home or condominium here in southern california and john was a little reluctant about
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wanting to spend money on a property so an argument ensued i think she just wasn't happy in her
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marriage either and she didn't want to leave hawaii which can't blame her
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come back here you know she's just typical 30 year old woman she just wants to live her nice life and i think that
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she wasn't getting along with her husband and uh and one thing led to another and
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unfortunately you don't think back then a woman would be uh at risk just leaving a restaurant
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but uh things happened even back then police still don't have much evidence to
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go on they make sure all the obvious bases in their investigation are covered the police did their job when this
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murder investigation first started they interviewed all the witnesses who they were supposed to they checked blood
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types to see whether or not john was involved it didn't look like john was involved
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i know they thought that the husband was the suspect they interviewed him several
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times his story was consistent i know they suspected him but at some point they actually had nowhere else to go i mean
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they just exhausted all evidence leads at that point now police begin to focus on the
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el toro marine air station for any possible leads the majority of where my victim's body was found
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near el toro marine base is very desolate the only thing out there literally was the marine base
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itself there was no public housing the huge puzzle was how did leslie get from the parking lot of south coast plaza
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to where she was eventually discovered behind the marine base again middle of the night she was found about 4 20 a.m
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literally five hours later she's now dead totally nude strangled and dumped on a roadway behind
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a marine base so again the focus was on why was she left where she was somebody probably had something to do
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with the marine corps we know today and particularly at the fbi and from the fbi's behavioral analysis unit we
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know that killers generally dump their bodies leave their bodies at areas that they're familiar with
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particularly when it's one of their first crimes so we always look for that you know me being a former marine myself
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given the location of where leslie's body was found it had to have been somebody that was familiar with that
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installation and the areas in and out of that base whether he was working there visiting that area or living in that
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location so our thoughts were marine with some type of costa mesa california connections
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needs of leslie penrod harris's death rattles the whole community back in the 70s you had
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unfortunately a lot of serial killers going around you had william bonin you had randy craft
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and one of the methods of transportation back in the day was hitchhiking you saw
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a lot of people with their thumbs out sitting on the side of the roadway hitchhiking
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and so you were taking a big chance that the truck the van especially a van the car you were getting into was this
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a friend a foe or potentially going to be harmful to me so i'm sure back in the day when you
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have a girl that left south coast plaza a very affluent shopping mall and then is found naked and deceased
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behind the marine base i'm sure there were some shock waves going around in the community
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finally police exhaust all leads leslie's case goes cold they had nothing to go on fingerprints
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didn't help them this case went cold until 1998. orange county crime lab criminalist
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reopened the case she re re-examined the swabs from the autopsy and she was able to find semen
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and was able to extract some now possible human dna so because of that they believed they could create a dna
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profile which they in fact were able to it's now 23 years later now with the advent of dna there were so
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many cases where all that you could do was try to match the old rape kit with a new dna profile and the police set out
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to do that and they submitted that into the law enforcement databases that existed back
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in the day to see if there was any hits and there wasn't we were at a loss of what to do
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so the case went cold again the investigation into the murder of a beautiful young woman leslie penrod
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harris seemingly advances in 20-year cycles 20 years after leslie's naked body is
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discovered detectives try to reopen a cold file but as we see next on bloodline detectives it will take
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another 20 years and some amazing science for a real break to come their way [Music]
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1998 orange county california the orange county sheriff's cold case team reopens
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the investigation into the brutal murder of leslie penrod harris they decide to visit her husband john
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and ask for a dna sample it was brand new detectives who were on the case in 1998
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but just like the old detectives the husband is always the prime suspect you always round up the usual suspects it's
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been that way since the start of criminal investigation they wanted to know is it the husband's
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dna which is prime piece of evidence in this case we knocked on his door we had no prior contact with him just
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knocked on his door identified ourselves and asked him for a voluntary swab and uh he was uh
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very reluctant i mean he was uncooperative he told us to go away and he just wanted to move on with his
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life and forget it he said it happened a long time ago and he refused you would think after being contacted
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all these years so you're looking at 12 years later sheriff's detectives contact you saying
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they're still working on your wife's mother you would think you would be
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absolutely thrilled that your wife's case just wasn't collecting dust on a
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shelf it was almost the opposite it had been 23 years since leslie had disappeared
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and now they're coming after him i think anyone would be frightened john was frightened
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leslie's disappearance had destroyed him mentally had destroyed him in in his
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foundation of his life he was not in a good place and to revisit it 23 years later just brought
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all the worst memories he said no we told him we're going to get a search warrant come back we're not going away
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but he still refused and we just thought it was odd and to me it just indicated that he might be
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good for this crime anyway we went back a few weeks later with a search warrant and he was the
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same way he was uncooperative but he complied with the the search warrant we got an oral swab
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and then i photo to maria glonsky our forensic scientist and she did her magic where she breaks
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it down compares it and a couple weeks later she called us back and said it wasn't him and we were shocked because
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we thought this is going to be the guy and the way he acted but he wasn't a match for the semen and recovered from
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his uh murdered wife in 2018 the orange county sheriff's cold case team decides to try genetic genealogy
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after they learn how it played a major role in catching the notorious golden state killer
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in 2018 once the arrest was made of joseph deangelo for the golden state killer case a couple of the fbi uh personnel
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that were directly involved in solving that steve bush and steve kramer gave a presentation at the sheriff's
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department for any interested parties that wanted to hear about how this was solved and this forensic
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genealogy that was used so i followed up on that and asked to meet with him and one of the cases i presented was the
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leslie harris case to see can we use the dna i had upload it in the genealogy databases to
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see if we can get some type of person of interest so dan came over to the fbi office in
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orange county and sat down with myself and steve bush and our team dan salcedo came in with a tiny little folder and he
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said this is the case file the case file on the leslie penrod harris case was roughly a quarter of an inch thick there
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was just nothing to go off of now for us it doesn't really matter because the
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suspect's dna is the investigative tool that we're going to use that's the lead
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that we're going to follow up on and in this case we were lucky enough to have
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the suspect's dna forensic genealogy doesn't work if you don't have the
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suspect's dna you have to have the suspect's dna genetic genealogy is amazing
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it is an incredible forensic tool that allows investigators to build a genealogical profile so homicide
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investigators with the help of the fbi can identify a subject they first said you have to make sure there's
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enough dna that's been preserved to upload into the genealogy databases i confirmed with my crime lab that there
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was and we took the next step now we sent it out to this company and they create a dna
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profile to be submitted for ancestry that was accomplished in early of 2019 and off we went and we now i now work
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with the fbi genealogy genetic team to start building a a tree based on my suspect dna
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to see if we can now go back go way back in time to see if we can start building a tree
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based on that dna sample that was uploaded one of the unique things about genetic
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genealogy it can also give you your ancestry and ethnicity and first thing we determined once we got the dna
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back is that our suspect had african ancestry so he was likely an african-american and when we looked at
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the matches that seemed to make sense because they started coming back to african-american families in particular
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uh into the southern southeastern united states uh louisiana alabama area so uh we started focusing on those particular
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families we were very confident that he he was in the military again from the location of where the body was
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found so we started focusing on anybody in the family that had military backgrounds and
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once we identified some of the relatives in the particular case that had military backgrounds being with
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the fbi uh we have unique access with the military we can make requests uh to the military to get military records and
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so we were able to obtain military records from several relatives that had been in
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the military including the marines in this particular case and then when you get the military records again it's
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stacks of documents that you have to go through fortunately the military records like a
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lot of government background checks you have to identify relatives in this particular case
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we had a fbi special agent who was new to our team but she was fantastic and we started handing out different
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military records to people to go through and i remember she took home uh over the easter holiday she
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took home a stack of military records and uh i think it was easter sunday about 1
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am she was going through some of the military records on one of the individuals and discovered a
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relative that had worked at el toro in 1976 and the next day i remember she called us
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all excited about it and it was it was a phenomenal find you know there was literally the needle in the haystack in
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this pile of documents she found the name of an individual a relative who did not have on our
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family tree yet who was in the military stationed at el toro at the same time was a crime the name of the individual
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was eddie lee anderson uh and he was a marine stationed at el toro in 1976 and when we did a little bit
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further background on him and pulled his records from the military we found out that he lived in costa mesa
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less than a mile from where leslie harris had been abducted after 40 long years police finally have a suspect
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and a name to go with it eddie lee anderson but now they've got to find him that's next on bloodline
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[Music] detectives orange county california 2019 the sheriff's department cold case team
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identifies the man suspected of the murder of a beautiful young woman leslie penrod harris
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his name eddie lee anderson at the time of the murder anderson was a soldier at the el
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toro marine air base where leslie's naked body was discovered what immediately stood out was
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he was a marine stationed at el toro which fit the suspicions that we had that it
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had to be somebody familiar with the area or associated with the military the other thing that was
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telling in this case is that mr anderson lived relatively close to the south coast plaza where leslie was last seen
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so he was definitely a person of interest in this case and some of those initial
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jigsaw puzzle pieces were fitting into place based on eddie lee anderson's proximity to orange
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county he actually lived here 76 and was a marine and was an african-american when i got that phone call i extremely
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excited to get that news from the fbi and they said okay what we do next is you start working on that name
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background it's now my job from that point on to put the case together so that's what i
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started with police continue to investigate eddie lee anderson's background he's now living in louisiana river ridge
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louisiana he's now buried remarried he had been married twice before a couple kids
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get hold of the law enforcement officials out in that part of louisiana they are extremely helpful to me they
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confirm that eddie's still alive lives in this particular house they do surveillance
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male older male black lives there they run him out no criminal record so we know at least he's not still involved
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in something no dna on file so i start pulling arrest reports i find out that eddie lee's been arrested a
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couple times 1974 for a kidnapping out of a law he removed a female at knifepoint from a
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laundromat in the city of tustin i'm able to get that police report i found out he actually assaulted his
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then wife outside of her workplace in santa ana in 1976 september of 76 i get that report
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i'm able to access military records and further confirm his age where he was stationed el toro
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and the biggest break i got was based on the 1976 arrest report confirms again marine
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married and i saw where he was living he put down that he was living on a street
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called sunflower in costa mesa which i almost dropped to my knees because when i found that out
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i knew that sunflower is the same street that is that faces south coast plaza and from where the apartment he listed
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in 1976 and to where leslie went missing is about a mile away to me that was i think the
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groundbreaking moment of i think we got our guy investigators must somehow acquire a dna sample from eddie
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lee anderson in order to try and match it with semen found on leslie's body circumstantially everything's looking
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really really good for me but i had to somehow get eddie's dna to match to the autopsy
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extraction dna they could find no dna sample or match with eddie lee anderson but they had the
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proximity the time the means the opportunity they didn't have a motive but they did know now where eddie lee
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anderson lived and they were going to go and see if they could get one so they went to louisiana where he was a
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truck driver they needed to get a dna sample surreptitiously lo and behold they looked through his
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garbage and they found needles oh my goodness the man was a diabetic he was injecting himself with insulin and
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in those needles there would be blood traces they took those blood traces and they
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sent them to the fbi and when it came back there was a match investigators are using their very best
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forensic weapon to solve a 40-year-old murder case they've got a suspect they've got a dna match
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but can they catch the killer that's next on bloodline detectives [Music] 2019 river ridge louisiana detectives
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all the way from california visit the home of ex-marine eddie lee anderson to interview him about a 40-year-old murder
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basically said we're here from california we'd like like to talk to you about an old
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case and he was cooperative he came outside and agreed to talk to us during the initial
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part of the interview he was very forthcoming he was very open about his time in california his time in the
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marine corps uh however when it came time to acknowledging uh how his dna came in
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contact with miss harris he denied knowing her having a relationship her any sexual contact with her with the dna
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evidence collected from eddie lee anderson police finally make an arrest they arrested him when he was with his
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wife she had no idea that he had been involved in any kind of criminal activity eddie lee anderson seemed to be a
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changed man he had found god he had married raised children he had a good job of
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being a truck driver no one no one thought that he had been a criminal in his past life
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i think when they came and arrested him and showed him the photo i think he knew
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they got me and he was probably inside he was just you know he couldn't believe it he was
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in shock but i mean he knew he was good for the crime you don't forget stuff
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like that i arrest eddie lee anderson in may of uh 2019 i now start to do all my follow-up okay
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i work backwards trying to find eddie lee now i'm working forward to find out
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everything about eddie lee after 76 so i make contact i'm able to find his first wife that he was married to for
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several years so in talking to eddie's first wife she confirmed that he was physically abusive
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part of that was he would choke her jokered sometime to the point of unconsciousness
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and there were times after she regained the consciousness that eddie was putting her head underwater
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well one of the mysteries was leslie was found completely nude it was the in may
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you know there was it wasn't raining it wasn't damp there was no fog but
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leslie's hair seemed to be wet so once i got that information from eddie's first wife i think i figured out
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why leslie's hair was wet eddie when he after the process of either choking her or renting her unconscious
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or even after he actually killed her he tried to revive her by putting her head underwater
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eddie lee anderson's arrest came 43 years after the crime a lifetime he had married he had children he had a
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completely different life and my goodness gracious to think that something 43 years in the
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past would come back to haunt him it was shocking it was shocking not only to the perpetrator anderson but to
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everyone who was involved how after all this time dang good police work that's what it was
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eddie lee anderson is under arrest and now detectives want to find leslie penrod harris's only remaining relative
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a daughter she gave up for adoption when leslie herself was just a teenager amazingly the discovery that leslie had
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a biological daughter was only uncovered because of this investigation no one knew leslie harris had a daughter
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her friends didn't know even her own husband didn't know she had a daughter come to find out during the
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course of my investigation leslie gave up a child to adoption i did search for my parents
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and that was when i discovered my mother had passed away she was deceased and the cause of death was listed as
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strangulation i reconnected with that daughter during the course of my investigation
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and one of the first phone calls i made was to leslie's daughter to say i arrested somebody for your your mom's
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murder dan had emailed me two to three days prior to the arrest asking for my phone number in case there were
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any new developments so i suspected that there might be something going on and i was i was in florida with visiting
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my daughter and granddaughters when i received that email so i responded right away and
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i just was hoping that something that i would hear from him soon and i was driving through louisiana the day that
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he was arrested then i got home back here to texas and maybe an hour and a half to two hours
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later i received a phone call from dan salcido telling me that they'd made an arrest
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i was um i just i started crying i felt relief [Music] i i was shocked but i was happy
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that they'd made an arrest in prison awaiting trial eddie lee anderson falls victim to a new virus
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raging across the world it's now 2020 when he's in the orange county jail
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and what do we have taking place not only in the jail but in hospitals and medical centers and everywhere
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throughout the country the covet epidemic the covet pandemic the virus is rampant
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haley anderson was 66 years old and he was susceptible to the covet virus and the orange county jail was a
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place which started to become impacted by this he was the first inmate to have contracted the covid virus
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and seven days later he was dead we had never had a preliminary hearing we didn't have a court date set
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nothing had taken place since his arrest other than the extradition so um kind of bittersweet for me because
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you know was justice truly served i wanted him to go to trial i wanted to be there for the
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trial but um not to say at the same time i i'd hoped that he struggled to breathe the same way my
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mother struggled when he was strangling her for yolanda sanders it's a bittersweet
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end to a long investigation for bloodline detectives and the science of genetic genealogy
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it is a remarkable end to a case that looked as if it would never be solved genetic genealogy in this case was huge
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aside from the the swabs that were collected autopsy moving forward 42 years you know i wouldn't have probably got to
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eddie lee anderson if it wasn't for the fbi genealogy team those people are outstanding top in
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their field i couldn't give them enough kudos of what they did for this case
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it was very important without it um i still i don't believe my mother's murder would have ever been solved
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it's almost impossible to believe the science of genetic genealogy can reach
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back 40 long years to bring back answers for victims relatives even investigators
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the incredible work of bloodline detectives goes on and because of that work there is finally justice
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for crime victims like leslie penrod harris and her daughter i'm nancy grace
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thanks so much for joining us here on bloodline detectives [Music] [Music] [Applause]
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