the Cedar Rapids Police in the us state of Iowa have charged a man for murder exactly 39 years after a female student was found murdered in a parked car at a shopping centre 20. december 1979.
It writes among other ABC News and the Des Moines Register.
Michelle Martinko was after a dinner with his choir run to the center to buy a jacket. She was found fully clothed, but with the wounds from the knife wounds both in the face and in the chest. Investigations revealed later that she had been stabbed at least eight times, and the marks on her hands showed that she in vain had made resistance.
With newer DNA technology, we managed to get a match out of a DNA sample from 2006. In ten years, there were otherwise no match, but last year, the police technicians to use the sample to make a 3D model of the perpetrator’s face. The technicians could also know to upload the DNA sample to a gene-database narrow the search to a specific group of suspects. Among them was 64-year-old Jerry Burns.
Jerry Burns refuses guilty in the murder of Michelle Martinko. Photo: the Cedar Rapids Police Department
the Police sneaked a DNA sample from Jerry Burns, when he had cut himself on the hand, and it turned out to be a match. As he could not give the police a ‘plausible reason’ for his DNA for the 39 years ago, was found on and around the body of Michelle Martinko, he was arrested and charged with murder.
Jerry Burns has told the police that he has no memory of having been involved in the murder of the 18-year-olds. His bail is set at five million dollars and the case (right) 28. december.
In a similar case on the murder of 18-year-old Amanda, in 1989, a can of cola now end to trap the killer.
