Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Brutal serial rapist hides from justice for decades. CAPTURED thanks to new DNA tool.
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. May fifth, nineteen ninety two,
- 0:11Speaker 1: a fifty two year old Sacramento area woman returns to
- 0:13Speaker 1: her home in this Rosemont neighborhood, and as the sun
- 0:17Speaker 1: is going down, she walks in her life would never
- 0:21Speaker 1: be the same and was almost immediately accosted and assaulted
- 0:25Speaker 1: by someone who was lying in wait inside of her residence.
- 0:28Speaker 1: For the next over three hours, she was assaulted, sexually assaulted,
- 0:34Speaker 1: and various sexual acts were committed against her neighbors. The
- 0:37Speaker 1: dude gathered to talk at a house where Wednesday night,
- 0:40Speaker 1: a forty four year old woman came home to find
- 0:42Speaker 1: a rapist waiting for her. She was blindfolded, bound and
- 0:45Speaker 1: repeatedly raped and beaten for what police say was at
- 0:48Speaker 1: least an hour. Suspect physically attacked her, bound her, and
- 0:52Speaker 1: sexually assaulted her. In the first two cases, women were
- 0:55Speaker 1: raped and tortured with a knife in their own home.
- 0:57Speaker 1: In the third case, he reportedly used a stun gun
- 1:00Speaker 1: and dragged a college student off and committed quote monstrous crimes.
- 1:03Speaker 1: How does one man get away with repeated rapes and
- 1:09Speaker 1: for years? I Meancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank
- 1:14Speaker 1: you for being with us. And could it be true
- 1:17Speaker 1: that this rapist a brutal rapist? And I've tried a
- 1:22Speaker 1: lot of rape cases. This is a brutal rapist that
- 1:26Speaker 1: enjoys torturing his victims. Is it true that evidence indicates
- 1:31Speaker 1: he spent years in town there in the bustling city
- 1:36Speaker 1: of Sacramento, at Sacramento State University, even working as a
- 1:42Speaker 1: part time lecturer on law enforcement. I'm telling you something again,
- 1:50Speaker 1: I've tried a lot of rape cases. This guy needs
- 1:56Speaker 1: to rot in hell with me right now, and all
- 2:00Speaker 1: star lineup very special guests joining us from Sacramento. The
- 2:05Speaker 1: Sacramento District Attorney and Marie Shubert. Also with us, the
- 2:09Speaker 1: Sacramento Police Chief, Daniel Hahn, George Skiro DNA expert, Scales
- 2:16Speaker 1: Biological Laboratory, Inc. Renowned forensic expert, author of Blood Beneath
- 2:21Speaker 1: My Feet on Amazon, Joseph Scott Morgan, judge, trial lawyer,
- 2:26Speaker 1: and Ask Wilcott dot Com. Ash Wilcott joining me right now.
- 2:29Speaker 1: Crime Online dot Com investigative reporter Dave mac Dave. I
- 2:35Speaker 1: know what a rape is all about, as does every
- 2:38Speaker 1: woman listening to this story right now. But this isn't
- 2:41Speaker 1: just a story. These are real victims that suffered. You know,
- 2:45Speaker 1: people say, oh, they'll get closure when the purpose finally arrested.
- 2:49Speaker 1: There's no such thing. It affects you the rest of
- 2:52Speaker 1: your life. But just tell me something, Dave Mack. How
- 2:55Speaker 1: many rape victims are we talking about that we know of?
- 2:59Speaker 1: And how does this guy elude police? I think the
- 3:02Speaker 1: key as you said, that we know of because when
- 3:04Speaker 1: you look at what we're actually charging them with. Between now,
- 3:06Speaker 1: it's between nineteen ninety two and nineteen ninety four. Two
- 3:09Speaker 1: of the women were attacked in their homes where he
- 3:12Speaker 1: was lying in wait, and the third one was apparently
- 3:16Speaker 1: particularly heinous, where he grabs a twenty two year old
- 3:18Speaker 1: off a jogging trail, uses a stun gun, and then
- 3:21Speaker 1: drags her off and attacks her. So we've got different
- 3:24Speaker 1: mos here in the same guy. The one thing we
- 3:27Speaker 1: have is the DNA linking him to all three of those.
- 3:29Speaker 1: But then you mentioned he actually was a guest lecturer
- 3:32Speaker 1: about law enforcement and ended up spending ten years in
- 3:37Speaker 1: sacrament minto before he leaves to work in the federal
- 3:41Speaker 1: penal system. He was hiding in plain sight, you know.
- 3:44Speaker 1: To Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn again, Welcome Daniel and
- 3:49Speaker 1: to Attorney Schibert. Daniel, I gotta ask you a question
- 3:54Speaker 1: toward the last let me just think maybe seven years
- 3:57Speaker 1: that I prosecuted, I began to specially lies and cereal
- 4:01Speaker 1: murders and cereal rapes. When you start seeing similarities between
- 4:07Speaker 1: rapemo modus operandi method of operation, it's just got to
- 4:11Speaker 1: drive you crazy knowing this may be the same guy.
- 4:16Speaker 1: What about when the ms are different and you can't
- 4:19Speaker 1: really link them together. Yeah, well, normally we don't see
- 4:24Speaker 1: two distinct differences, but this one there was. And this
- 4:27Speaker 1: one's also unique in that Amory, when she was a
- 4:30Speaker 1: deputy DA and one of our retired detectives now submitted
- 4:34Speaker 1: for the first John Doe warrant based on DNA in
- 4:37Speaker 1: California back then, and this is the one. So they're
- 4:40Speaker 1: the detective. This was one of his only open cases
- 4:44Speaker 1: and now it's solved. So there's great work by the
- 4:47Speaker 1: detectives and Amory. Take a listen to our Fanbecca Haybecker.
- 4:51Speaker 1: This was one of the three attacks that fifty nine
- 4:53Speaker 1: year old Mark Mantufflo is accused of committing between nineteen
- 4:55Speaker 1: ninety two and ninety four. One woman was raped in
- 4:58Speaker 1: her Sacramento County home. Another woman was attacked on a
- 5:01Speaker 1: jogging path and Davis, and a third woman was raped
- 5:04Speaker 1: in her home in Sacramento. All three women survived their attacks.
- 5:07Speaker 1: I can tell you that the victim in the case
- 5:09Speaker 1: out of Yolo County has been notified that the man
- 5:14Speaker 1: who did this to her is in custody. She's very happy.
- 5:17Speaker 1: At a news conference Monday afternoon, Sacramento area law enforcement
- 5:21Speaker 1: explained just how they connected three crime scenes from the
- 5:23Speaker 1: early nineties to this guy who was arrested at his
- 5:26Speaker 1: home near Atlanta on Friday. We knew these crimes were
- 5:28Speaker 1: all committed by the same suspect because they were linked
- 5:32Speaker 1: by DNA left at each of the three crime scenes.
- 5:34Speaker 1: This is so critical right now, the investigative tool of
- 5:39Speaker 1: linking DNA with me Sacramento's District Attorney Anne Marie Sheebert,
- 5:46Speaker 1: District Attorney Shebert, please explain why this is so critical
- 5:51Speaker 1: that this type of genealogical DNA be allowed across the country. Well,
- 5:56Speaker 1: there's no question that since the arrest of the Golden
- 5:58Speaker 1: State Killer, that this new tool and law enforces using
- 6:02Speaker 1: is really changing the world. I mean, it's it's helping
- 6:05Speaker 1: us go back decades. I mean we know from the
- 6:07Speaker 1: Golden State Killer it's gone back forty years. We've seen
- 6:10Speaker 1: over sixty cases across the country that in just over
- 6:13Speaker 1: a year where individuals that, as Dave says, they're just
- 6:16Speaker 1: living right amongst us have been identified. At least three
- 6:20Speaker 1: cases now have been resolved. That one horrific one was
- 6:23Speaker 1: the kidnap, rape, and murder of April Tinsley. But you know,
- 6:27Speaker 1: there's no questions changing the world. It's just it's bringing
- 6:29Speaker 1: people to justice. It's lifting clouds off of individuals who
- 6:33Speaker 1: had been suspected for years where were in fact innocence,
- 6:36Speaker 1: And ultimately it's making our communities safer. And really the
- 6:39Speaker 1: most important thing is prosecutors and law enforces. It's giving
- 6:42Speaker 1: hope to victims that they long thought perhaps was had vanished.
- 6:46Speaker 1: So it's a tremendous tool that we're going to continue
- 6:49Speaker 1: to use within our power and do everything we can
- 6:51Speaker 1: to make our community safe. And speaking of April Tinsley,
- 6:55Speaker 1: that District Attorney Emory Shebert just brought up Listen to
- 6:57Speaker 1: Kate saw eight year old April Tinsley went missing walking
- 7:00Speaker 1: to a friend's house. Her body was found in a
- 7:02Speaker 1: ditch thirty years. Thirty years as family has waited for answers,
- 7:06Speaker 1: Tinsley's killer taunted detectives with a message scrawled on a barn,
- 7:10Speaker 1: then in two thousand and four, threatening notes found on
- 7:13Speaker 1: young girl's bicycles. But after all these years, it only
- 7:17Speaker 1: took weeks to solve the case. Using a new cutting
- 7:20Speaker 1: edge DNA analysis, Parabon Labs compared the suspects DNA to
- 7:24Speaker 1: a public database of genealogy information results people get from
- 7:28Speaker 1: a test like twenty three and me. They found distant
- 7:31Speaker 1: cousins to build the family tree backward, then looked for
- 7:34Speaker 1: descendants and narrowed the search to two brothers. It really
- 7:38Speaker 1: had to be one or the other because they were
- 7:41Speaker 1: carrying the right mix of DNA. Investigators collected DNA from
- 7:46Speaker 1: one of the brothers trash and got a match. John
- 7:49Speaker 1: Miller was arrested Sunday. In just three months, Parabon has
- 7:52Speaker 1: identified four other killers and is working forty more cases.
- 7:56Speaker 1: According to April, Tinsley's family allegedly get enclosure as fifty
- 8:02Speaker 1: nine year old perp sentenced to eighty years behind bars.
- 8:05Speaker 1: This is thirty years after he rapes and kills an
- 8:07Speaker 1: eight year old little girl, then taunting cops with condom
- 8:12Speaker 1: clues their words to him burn in hell, you monster.
- 8:19Speaker 1: I feel the same way and thank God for this
- 8:22Speaker 1: new tool. Genealogical DNA crime stories with Nancy Grace, eight
- 8:44Speaker 1: year old April Tinsley went missing walking to a friend's house.
- 8:47Speaker 1: Her body was found in a ditch. Thirty years thirty years,
- 8:50Speaker 1: this family has waited for answers. Tinsley's killer taunted detectives
- 8:54Speaker 1: with a message squelled on a barn, then in two
- 8:57Speaker 1: thousand and four, threatening notes found on young girls bicycles.
- 9:01Speaker 1: But after all these years, it only took weeks to
- 9:04Speaker 1: solve the case. Using a new cutting edge DNA analysis,
- 9:08Speaker 1: Parabon Labs compared the suspects DNA to a public database
- 9:12Speaker 1: of genealogy information results people get from a test like
- 9:15Speaker 1: twenty three and me. They found distant cousins to build
- 9:18Speaker 1: the family tree backward, then looked for descendants and narrowed
- 9:22Speaker 1: the search to two brothers. It really had to be
- 9:25Speaker 1: one or the other because they were carrying the right
- 9:28Speaker 1: mix of DNA. Investigators collected DNA from one of the
- 9:33Speaker 1: brothers trash and got a match. John Miller was arrested Sunday.
- 9:38Speaker 1: In just three months, Parabon has identified four other killers
- 9:41Speaker 1: and is working forty more cases. What a perv. This
- 9:45Speaker 1: guy not only rapes and kills an eight year old girl,
- 9:48Speaker 1: throwing her body into a ditch like she's trash, but
- 9:52Speaker 1: then taunts investigators and cops, leaving condoms rubbers as clue,
- 9:58Speaker 1: taunting notes saying he did the crime. Mother Janet Tinsley
- 10:05Speaker 1: begged prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Miller. The
- 10:08Speaker 1: case goes cold for a long long time, and then finally,
- 10:12Speaker 1: thanks to genealogical DNA, he is behind bars and let
- 10:17Speaker 1: me go to you Special guest George Skiro DNA expert
- 10:20Speaker 1: with Skills Biological Laboratory, Inc. George, I remember the first
- 10:25Speaker 1: time I tried a DNA case. I didn't really even
- 10:27Speaker 1: understand what I was dealing with, but I insisted the
- 10:31Speaker 1: crime lab bring in blowups of what they could see
- 10:36Speaker 1: under the microscope so I could explain it to the jury.
- 10:40Speaker 1: He got up there with all it looked like a
- 10:43Speaker 1: bad film from an old camera that you just unroll.
- 10:47Speaker 1: I looked at it, I looked at the jury, and
- 10:50Speaker 1: I said, why don't you just try to explain it
- 10:52Speaker 1: to us verbally, because unless you are a scientist and
- 10:56Speaker 1: you're looking at this, it just it looks like a
- 10:58Speaker 1: bunch of dots. So explain to me, how do I know.
- 11:02Speaker 1: I mean, the odds are like one in five trillion
- 11:06Speaker 1: that this is the guy. I mean, the odds are incredible.
- 11:12Speaker 1: You're You're dead the water if you get a DNA match.
- 11:15Speaker 1: Explained to me, what geneological DNA is, a white It's
- 11:17Speaker 1: so important, Nancy. Geological DNA is a different type of
- 11:22Speaker 1: DNA than we look at in crime labs and forensic works.
- 11:26Speaker 1: It's actually looking at physical locations on the chromosomes that
- 11:30Speaker 1: are that are very close together, so that when these
- 11:33Speaker 1: are passed down through families, they're linked. So that that's
- 11:37Speaker 1: why they can go out so far and look at
- 11:40Speaker 1: these second cousins and third cousins. Then once they get
- 11:43Speaker 1: that DNA match to a potential relative, they can use
- 11:47Speaker 1: conventional genealogical methods to backtrack and look at family trees,
- 11:52Speaker 1: build a family tree to get back to the individual itself.
- 11:56Speaker 1: Then what can be done is once they find that individual,
- 11:59Speaker 1: they can take okay, wait a minute, you know what
- 12:01Speaker 1: I'm drinking out of the fire hisrant right now. It
- 12:03Speaker 1: is just too much, too fast. I'm trying to compare
- 12:07Speaker 1: what you're telling me. You know, Paul holds one of
- 12:11Speaker 1: the detectives on the Golden State killer case. He actually
- 12:14Speaker 1: had to draw a chart for me to understand this,
- 12:17Speaker 1: George Skuiro, because I thought, you know, foolishly that you
- 12:23Speaker 1: have DNA from the murder of the rape and then
- 12:26Speaker 1: through let's just say, one of these genealogical websites where
- 12:29Speaker 1: people trace themselves back to Ireland, okay, where everybody is
- 12:33Speaker 1: from Ireland, and I thought it was just that simple.
- 12:37Speaker 1: It's not. You have to go back generations and generations
- 12:42Speaker 1: and generations, and you take this grandma, this great grandfather,
- 12:46Speaker 1: and you take it all the way down multiple generations
- 12:50Speaker 1: to get a match. Now, can you just explain this
- 12:53Speaker 1: in a nutshell, Squiro, We're not all scientists like you, Okay,
- 12:58Speaker 1: I'm just a j D. Break it down. Well, essentially,
- 13:01Speaker 1: it's looking for links between families and then following those links,
- 13:05Speaker 1: following those breadcrumbs till you get to that individual you're
- 13:08Speaker 1: looking for, and then you can take his DNA and
- 13:11Speaker 1: compare it to the forensic DNA sample and see if
- 13:14Speaker 1: there's a match, and that's what gives you those huge
- 13:17Speaker 1: numbers in terms of making an identification. Dirig attorney from
- 13:20Speaker 1: Sacramento A. Marie Shebert with us DA. Shebert. I don't
- 13:25Speaker 1: understand why there is opposition to genealogical DNAs. Oh, it's
- 13:30Speaker 1: just I think there's just you know, some people out
- 13:32Speaker 1: there that privacy individuals. But I think it's important for
- 13:35Speaker 1: people to understand is that cops never get their hands
- 13:38Speaker 1: on people's DNA and these genealogy sites. It's not like
- 13:40Speaker 1: they're out there, you know, collecting somebody's actual profile. And
- 13:43Speaker 1: if that's an important message that the public needs to understand,
- 13:46Speaker 1: is that they're simply giving a given a list. Like
- 13:49Speaker 1: everybody else that decides to go on to one of
- 13:50Speaker 1: these sites to find their biological parents or you know,
- 13:53Speaker 1: adoptees do this, or individuals that were products of perhaps
- 13:57Speaker 1: firm donors, cops are never given than that actual profile.
- 14:01Speaker 1: They're simply said, well, you might you might have this relative,
- 14:04Speaker 1: second cousin twice removed, and that's what they take. So
- 14:07Speaker 1: they're never doing anything with some of these actual profiles.
- 14:10Speaker 1: The profile they have is the bad guys who left
- 14:12Speaker 1: it behind. As the crime seats. So that's what's important
- 14:15Speaker 1: to remember is that, and it's an incredible tool that
- 14:18Speaker 1: law enforcement. You know, we expect our law enforcement to
- 14:21Speaker 1: keep us safe. And what we're doing, what people like
- 14:25Speaker 1: Chief Han and our sheriff and our law partners are doing,
- 14:28Speaker 1: is they are doing everything they can within the balands
- 14:31Speaker 1: of the law to make sure that they are identifying
- 14:35Speaker 1: and violent criminals. We're not going after people that are
- 14:37Speaker 1: breaking into cars. We're simply going after individuals who have
- 14:40Speaker 1: committed horrific, horrific crimes. You know, one of the victims
- 14:44Speaker 1: that I saw one time on the Golden State Killer said,
- 14:46Speaker 1: you know, this wasn't a rape that lasted three hours,
- 14:49Speaker 1: it lasted forty two years. So we have to remember
- 14:54Speaker 1: that we are balancing privacy versus public safety, and when
- 14:56Speaker 1: we're talking about when we're talking about violent criminals, we're
- 15:00Speaker 1: doing using the tools that we have within the bounds
- 15:03Speaker 1: of the law to bring those people to justice. Joining
- 15:06Speaker 1: me forensics expert, author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon,
- 15:10Speaker 1: professor at Jacksonville State University, Joseph Scott Morgan Just Scott, Okay,
- 15:15Speaker 1: let me wrap my mind around this, because I understand DNA.
- 15:19Speaker 1: I understand DNA matches, I understand how you get DNA,
- 15:23Speaker 1: but on these genealogical websites, in my mind, there's not
- 15:28Speaker 1: really a privacy issue because someone somewhere in your family
- 15:33Speaker 1: has given a DNA sample, usually through saliva. The Constitution
- 15:38Speaker 1: protects you from police banging down your door, no offense,
- 15:42Speaker 1: police Chief Daniel on or forcing you to give a confession,
- 15:46Speaker 1: all right, But the Constitution does not protect you from
- 15:50Speaker 1: somebody and your family or a distant relative from handing
- 15:54Speaker 1: over their DNA to a website. Yes, right, Nancy, that
- 15:58Speaker 1: that is not the case. You're not protected constitutionally from something,
- 16:02Speaker 1: for instance, that a familial connection has done. So that's
- 16:08Speaker 1: that's not off limits at this point. I think that
- 16:12Speaker 1: echoing what the DA said, I think that there are
- 16:15Speaker 1: privacy concerns among certain people because they just don't understand.
- 16:19Speaker 1: And one of the things that needs to happen is
- 16:21Speaker 1: further education about this, just so that people feel safe,
- 16:24Speaker 1: because as you stated, it's confusing. It is. It's just
- 16:28Speaker 1: it's confusing. I teach lightly teach DNA to criminal justice students,
- 16:35Speaker 1: and still at the end of the day, it's still
- 16:37Speaker 1: you know, you'll see big question marks over their heads,
- 16:40Speaker 1: you know, wondering, well, how does all of this work?
- 16:42Speaker 1: Because the science behind it is highly complex too. Judge
- 16:46Speaker 1: Ashley Wilcott joining me. Ashley, here's the bottom line. When
- 16:52Speaker 1: Jesscott Morgan says, trying to explain it to people, the
- 16:58Speaker 1: defense bar understands full well. They're not idiots, Okay, they
- 17:05Speaker 1: understand full well what DNA is, how it works, and
- 17:09Speaker 1: how this works genealogical DNA. So what is the possible complaint?
- 17:16Speaker 1: I mean, I'm so proud of District Attorney Amory Schubert
- 17:20Speaker 1: in Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Han. They've got a violent
- 17:24Speaker 1: rapist off the street. You don't like geneological DNA, Fine,
- 17:28Speaker 1: you invite him over to your house for Sunday dinner
- 17:31Speaker 1: and to spend the night. That'll be a cold day
- 17:33Speaker 1: in hell when that happens. Nobody wants them in their neighborhood.
- 17:37Speaker 1: But they don't want Amory Schubert and Daniel Han to
- 17:40Speaker 1: use geneological DNA. What's the argument, Well, let me start
- 17:44Speaker 1: first by saying I completely agree that the interest of
- 17:46Speaker 1: the public far outweighs the right to privacy. If Defense
- 17:49Speaker 1: wants to argue right to privacy. Now, don't interrupt, because
- 17:52Speaker 1: I know you're about to scream there's no privacy. But
- 17:54Speaker 1: I think defense attorneys and zealously representing their client. Whether
- 17:58Speaker 1: I agree with it or not, there's a constitutional right
- 18:01Speaker 1: they have to being represented. They are arguing, listen, they
- 18:05Speaker 1: did have a right to privacy because perhaps he did
- 18:08Speaker 1: not submit his own DNA, perhaps a different family members
- 18:12Speaker 1: submitted their DNA and it led to him, and they're
- 18:15Speaker 1: going to argue. And I don't agree with this argument,
- 18:17Speaker 1: so don't misunderstand me, listeners, but they are going to
- 18:21Speaker 1: try to argue even if he chose to do it,
- 18:25Speaker 1: he was doing it to a company to get the
- 18:27Speaker 1: results for himself, not for law enforcement to be able
- 18:31Speaker 1: to access, and that there does exist a right to privacy.
- 18:35Speaker 1: This is a new area of law. Again, I believe
- 18:38Speaker 1: they can completely legally be obtained with subpoena like the
- 18:41Speaker 1: police have done. However, I think a defense attorney's going
- 18:45Speaker 1: to argue, Listen, new area of law. We want courts
- 18:49Speaker 1: to rule on this because there is a right to privacy.
- 19:06Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace, Yeah, you're shocked. People who
- 19:12Speaker 1: live in this East Sacramento neighborhood where Mark Mantefel lived
- 19:15Speaker 1: for more than a decade. Couldn't believe he's being charged
- 19:17Speaker 1: in several violent rape cases between nineteen ninety two and
- 19:20Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four. Was not in the neighborhood. Yeah, I
- 19:24Speaker 1: mean he was a quiet guy, but you know he
- 19:27Speaker 1: talked to you. Helpful neighbors say Mantefell helped rewire their home.
- 19:31Speaker 1: He also attended sach State, even lectured there in the
- 19:34Speaker 1: fall of nineteen ninety three, according to school officials. He
- 19:37Speaker 1: also worked in the federal prison system as an administrator,
- 19:40Speaker 1: retiring in Florida back in twenty fourteen. But police say
- 19:43Speaker 1: he's sexually assaulted three women decades ago. In the first
- 19:47Speaker 1: two cases, women were raped and tortured with a knife
- 19:49Speaker 1: in their own home. In the third case, he reportedly
- 19:52Speaker 1: used a stunt gun and dragged a college student off
- 19:54Speaker 1: and committed quote monstrous crimes. Our friend Rachel Wolf at
- 19:58Speaker 1: CBS thirteen, you're here, neighbors to Mark Mantifal, reacting reacting
- 20:04Speaker 1: to the discovery that he is a brutal rapist. After
- 20:09Speaker 1: lecturing on criminal justice and working within the system, the
- 20:13Speaker 1: criminal justice system, he moves clear across the country as
- 20:17Speaker 1: far away from his crimes as he could get to
- 20:19Speaker 1: the other side, to the east coast from the west coast.
- 20:22Speaker 1: But DNA manages to track him down. And believe it
- 20:26Speaker 1: or not, all of you ladies listening, all of you
- 20:29Speaker 1: men listening who have a wife, a daughter, a sister,
- 20:34Speaker 1: and of course you had a mother, imagine this guy's
- 20:37Speaker 1: foot coming through her kitchen window one night. And now
- 20:43Speaker 1: there are opponents to the use of genealogical DNA with
- 20:48Speaker 1: me special guests Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn and the
- 20:52Speaker 1: elected District Attorney of Sacramento and Marie Shubert. I just
- 20:58Speaker 1: I don't get it. I guess I should know by
- 21:02Speaker 1: now that a defense attorney is paid and ethically bound
- 21:06Speaker 1: to do everything they can under the law to get
- 21:08Speaker 1: the client off. But good grief, this guy, I mean,
- 21:12Speaker 1: the neighbors thought he was such a nice, quiet guy
- 21:15Speaker 1: that blended into the neighborhood. I wonder how many rapes
- 21:19Speaker 1: he committed or other crimes he committed where he potentially
- 21:22Speaker 1: used a condom or didn't leave DNA to Amrie Schibert,
- 21:26Speaker 1: what do you say to your opponents? Well, what I
- 21:29Speaker 1: say to the opponents is that we're striking the right balances.
- 21:32Speaker 1: You know, our jobs in law enforcement is to protect
- 21:34Speaker 1: the community, to bring dresses to victims, and to remove
- 21:37Speaker 1: violent predators from our community. And that's exactly what this is.
- 21:41Speaker 1: An investigative lead. It's no different than a match off
- 21:45Speaker 1: the DNA databank from CODIS. It's giving Chief Han or
- 21:48Speaker 1: our law enforcement partners a lead, which then they go
- 21:51Speaker 1: out and do their jobs and they identify these individuals.
- 21:54Speaker 1: And so when somebody wants to say this is you know,
- 21:56Speaker 1: they don't like it, Well, they don't like it because
- 21:58Speaker 1: people get caught. And that's the reality. The public overwhelmingly
- 22:01Speaker 1: supports us. We know that because studies have been done
- 22:04Speaker 1: since the arrest in the Golden State killer were the
- 22:06Speaker 1: public ninety percent of the public plus wants us to
- 22:09Speaker 1: use it for violent crime. To help us solve missing persons,
- 22:12Speaker 1: help us solve crime, evolving children, help take rapists and
- 22:15Speaker 1: murders off the street. You know, to you, Ashley Wilcott, judge,
- 22:17Speaker 1: trial lawyer, and anchor, I compare this if I were
- 22:21Speaker 1: doing an appellate brief on this to the theory of
- 22:24Speaker 1: the plain view doctrine. In other words, let's just pretend,
- 22:28Speaker 1: Ashley Wilcot, that I walk by your giant, luxurious suv
- 22:35Speaker 1: and I look in and I see less seasons marijuana
- 22:38Speaker 1: is legal in so many places. Let me just say,
- 22:40Speaker 1: a line of coke? All right? I see it's right
- 22:42Speaker 1: there on your dashboard. You've been snorting up again at
- 22:45Speaker 1: lunchtime in your suv. Ashley. I hate to tell you this,
- 22:48Speaker 1: so I catch you. It's in plain view. You left
- 22:51Speaker 1: it there. And then your defense is, I didn't do it.
- 22:54Speaker 1: My best friend Joe got Morgan dented. That's not gonna work.
- 22:58Speaker 1: It's in plain view. It doesn't really matter anymore. It's
- 23:01Speaker 1: your car. Long story short, with genealogical DNA the target.
- 23:08Speaker 1: This guy Mark Matefeld may say I didn't give my DNA.
- 23:12Speaker 1: You didn't have the right to do that. Well, somebody
- 23:13Speaker 1: and your family did, and it's out there for me
- 23:16Speaker 1: to find in plane view, and you're busted. Tell me
- 23:20Speaker 1: what's wrong with that argument, Ashley. I don't think there's
- 23:22Speaker 1: anything wrong with that argument, But I want to add
- 23:24Speaker 1: something to that. Nancy. Don't forget the judicial system is involved.
- 23:28Speaker 1: So it's not as if law enforcement went out and said,
- 23:31Speaker 1: half cocked, we're going to get all of these samples
- 23:34Speaker 1: of DNA, and we're going to start comparing them. No,
- 23:36Speaker 1: they had to go through the judicial process, which again
- 23:39Speaker 1: is in place to safeguard constitutional rights. So a judge
- 23:43Speaker 1: had to sign a warner, they had to get a
- 23:45Speaker 1: subpoena that said they could access this, and so that's
- 23:48Speaker 1: another safeguard to ensure they're not just going out and
- 23:52Speaker 1: looking and going into homes and pulling information to say,
- 23:56Speaker 1: we're going to consider whether these hundred residents did this. Instead,
- 24:00Speaker 1: rather they're using the system in place, just like you're
- 24:04Speaker 1: saying in plane view, it protects individuals and if you
- 24:08Speaker 1: want to engage in criminal activity, there's absolutely a right
- 24:13Speaker 1: for a judicial system to be involved to give the
- 24:16Speaker 1: right for law enforcement to subpoena or access DNA submitted
- 24:21Speaker 1: by choice to a company take a listen to our
- 24:24Speaker 1: friends at Fox forty. In nineteen ninety three, around the
- 24:27Speaker 1: time of his three allanged rapes, Mantiford was a Sacramento
- 24:30Speaker 1: State student and a guest lecturer in criminal justice at
- 24:33Speaker 1: the school. His law enforcement career would span more than
- 24:36Speaker 1: two decades, working with the Federal Bureau of Prisons in
- 24:39Speaker 1: Atlanta and Miami. At one point coming under investigation for
- 24:43Speaker 1: accusations he was trying to plant evidence on an inmate.
- 24:47Speaker 1: According to court documents, the message should be clear, if
- 24:50Speaker 1: you committed a violent crime in this community and you
- 24:52Speaker 1: left your DNA, you can expect that we're going to
- 24:54Speaker 1: try to solve that crime and bringing to justice. Sacramento
- 24:57Speaker 1: County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert says it took a
- 25:00Speaker 1: collaborative effort among sheriffs and police detectives and FBI agents
- 25:04Speaker 1: to track Mantifold down like the infamous Easterea rapist case,
- 25:08Speaker 1: using DNA technology to match Mantifol's DNA left a crime
- 25:12Speaker 1: scenes with that of someone in his family. Treat with me.
- 25:15Speaker 1: Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Han. Chief Han question, did he
- 25:19Speaker 1: not leave any fingerprints at the crime saying any of
- 25:22Speaker 1: his crime scenes because I imagine his prints were taken
- 25:26Speaker 1: if he was in the system. Yeah, a lot of
- 25:28Speaker 1: these crimes they didn't leave fingerprints because they covered up
- 25:32Speaker 1: their faces and also to other things. And I would
- 25:35Speaker 1: just say this about the DNA first and foremost, Who
- 25:37Speaker 1: wouldn't want this guy off the street. Who wants this
- 25:40Speaker 1: guy still out on the street after horrific crimes that
- 25:42Speaker 1: he did in people's homes where he was there for hours.
- 25:45Speaker 1: And then secondly, DNA is such a good piece of
- 25:48Speaker 1: evidence because it's unique to the suspect, it's illegal. There
- 25:52Speaker 1: were warrants in various stages of this case. And you
- 25:55Speaker 1: leave DNA pretty much everywhere you go, so you don't
- 25:59Speaker 1: have to necessarily fingerprints, because if you wear gloves, you
- 26:01Speaker 1: don't have fingerprints, but you it's hard not to be
- 26:04Speaker 1: somewhere for hours and do the kind of crimes he
- 26:06Speaker 1: did and not leave your DNA all over that house.
- 26:09Speaker 1: You know, the reason he managed to outsmart everyone clearly
- 26:14Speaker 1: is because he was in law enforcement. He knew how
- 26:18Speaker 1: to cover his tracks. He knew every trick in the book.
- 26:22Speaker 1: To Emory Shebert, the Sacramento District Attorney, DA Shebert, how
- 26:27Speaker 1: did you get around the statute of limitations on murder?
- 26:30Speaker 1: There is no statute, but on rape in many jurisdictions
- 26:34Speaker 1: there is, although that tide is shifting. Yeah, so in
- 26:37Speaker 1: California back in nineteen the early nineties of statue limitations
- 26:42Speaker 1: with six years and so, you know, I think it
- 26:44Speaker 1: was probably serendipity, as I call it, when I got
- 26:47Speaker 1: a phone call from Pete will Over, who's a sack
- 26:49Speaker 1: ped detective one of the best I've ever seen, called
- 26:52Speaker 1: me late ninety nine, frustrated because he had a couple
- 26:55Speaker 1: of very horrific crimes, this one plus another one that
- 26:58Speaker 1: the guy ended up getting caught in. Coincidentally, at the
- 27:00Speaker 1: time that he called me, I had read a story
- 27:02Speaker 1: about another prosecutor in another state doing this idea of
- 27:06Speaker 1: charging an unknown person but alleging his true his DNA
- 27:10Speaker 1: as his description, and so I, myself and my colleagues
- 27:13Speaker 1: did a lot of research on it. In California law
- 27:15Speaker 1: looked at it, felt very strongly that we could do it,
- 27:18Speaker 1: and I felt like, well, there's you know, this guy,
- 27:20Speaker 1: whoever it is, needs to be held accountable, and if
- 27:23Speaker 1: we don't do this, he's going to get away with it.
- 27:25Speaker 1: So we did it on this case. We did it
- 27:27Speaker 1: on another case. The other case the guy got ended
- 27:29Speaker 1: up getting caught. This is a guy named Paul Robinson,
- 27:32Speaker 1: tried it, went all the way to cal Supreme Court
- 27:35Speaker 1: and it was upheld and that guy was sitting in
- 27:37Speaker 1: prison for about sixty five years now. So it was
- 27:39Speaker 1: something that we felt strongly that you know, these are
- 27:41Speaker 1: horrific crimes this particular case plus the other case, and
- 27:45Speaker 1: we felt like we wanted to do everything within our
- 27:47Speaker 1: legal toolbag to comply with that Saxon limitations. Even though
- 27:51Speaker 1: we didn't have a name, we could ultimately put a
- 27:53Speaker 1: face to that profile, that DNA profile, and that's what
- 27:56Speaker 1: we did. And in this case, it weren't take a
- 27:58Speaker 1: listen to our friends at Sea thirteen. The FBI tracked
- 28:01Speaker 1: him down at his home Indicator, Georgia, using the same
- 28:04Speaker 1: technology called genetic genealogy that led to an arrest in
- 28:07Speaker 1: the East Area rapist case last year. Without our ability
- 28:11Speaker 1: to use DNA and genetic genealogy, we would not have
- 28:14Speaker 1: this predator in custody right now, and maybe never would.
- 28:17Speaker 1: The Sacramento County District Attorney says, catching a predator like
- 28:21Speaker 1: Mark Mantefeld is about passion, patience, and persistance. You know,
- 28:24Speaker 1: I am proud to say we have put a face
- 28:26Speaker 1: to that DNA profile, and today, quarter of a century later,
- 28:32Speaker 1: a silent witness has spoken. The DA praised the ingenuity
- 28:35Speaker 1: and teamwork of detectives who had the foresight to keep
- 28:38Speaker 1: DNA test kits longer than the law allowed at the time.
- 28:53Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace serial rapist is bust thanks
- 29:00Speaker 1: to cutting edge technology, the same type that helped identify
- 29:03Speaker 1: the suspected East Area rapists last year. Today, law enforcement
- 29:06Speaker 1: announce the arrest of a former Sacramento man who had
- 29:09Speaker 1: worked in federal prisons and lectured at Sacramento State. Cbsoteens
- 29:13Speaker 1: Rachel Wolf tells us more about who he is and
- 29:15Speaker 1: how it took decades for authorities that track him down. Rachel,
- 29:18Speaker 1: the authorities here tell us that Mark Manifold lived in
- 29:20Speaker 1: this area, he went to sax State, even lectured there briefly,
- 29:23Speaker 1: as you said, But he is actually being accused of
- 29:26Speaker 1: sexually assaulting several women connected through DNA technology that didn't
- 29:30Speaker 1: even exist when those crimes were committed. Janetic genealogy has
- 29:33Speaker 1: led to dozens of arrest nationwide, including suspected Golden State
- 29:37Speaker 1: killer Joseph DeAngelo. By putting crime scene DNA profiles in
- 29:41Speaker 1: a public database like Jetmatch, authorities can identify relatives of
- 29:45Speaker 1: a suspect. The genealogists build family trees to find the
- 29:49Speaker 1: actual suspect. That's what pointed detectives in Washington State to
- 29:52Speaker 1: William Talbot. He was just found guilty of murdering a
- 29:55Speaker 1: couple in nineteen eighty seven, the first conviction by jury
- 29:59Speaker 1: tied to Janeta genealogy. This truly is a revolution in
- 30:02Speaker 1: crime fighting, and genetic genealogy is not going away now.
- 30:06Speaker 1: But it also raises privacy questions because information from innocent
- 30:09Speaker 1: people is being used without their knowledge. Last month, jed
- 30:13Speaker 1: match changed its policies so law enforcement can only search
- 30:16Speaker 1: users who give their consent. You are hearing our friends
- 30:19Speaker 1: at CBS thirteen Rachel Wolf and NBCNS Joe Friar the
- 30:25Speaker 1: debate over privacy raging. Can't agree at all with the
- 30:31Speaker 1: opponents of genealogical DNA to Sacramento District Attorney and Marie Sibert,
- 30:35Speaker 1: who is it that is opposing your use of genealogical
- 30:39Speaker 1: DNA to put violent criminals behind bars? Oh, I think
- 30:43Speaker 1: it's you know, there are individuals that are privacy advocates
- 30:46Speaker 1: that feel like law enforcement shouldn't be able to use
- 30:48Speaker 1: this tool. I mean, it's it's probably somewhat of an
- 30:50Speaker 1: anti law enforcement effort. But you know, the most important
- 30:53Speaker 1: I want to keep in mind for the listeners is
- 30:55Speaker 1: that we in Sacramento and those of us in California
- 30:58Speaker 1: have taken a very proactive effort and since the arrest
- 31:01Speaker 1: of the Golden Sekuler to get out there to educate
- 31:04Speaker 1: law enforcement and the public, but law enforcement on how
- 31:07Speaker 1: to not only do this, but to balance that privacy interest,
- 31:10Speaker 1: which you know we reckon. There is a privacy interest,
- 31:12Speaker 1: but as a judge said, you know, public safety far
- 31:15Speaker 1: outweighs it. But we're out there. We're not, like I
- 31:17Speaker 1: said earlier, we're not going to use this tool on
- 31:20Speaker 1: low level, non violent crimes. We're using this in a
- 31:23Speaker 1: manner that is identifying individuals for violent crimes, and we're
- 31:27Speaker 1: establishing a best practice model in California that we're pushing
- 31:29Speaker 1: not just across this country, but across this world because
- 31:33Speaker 1: we want to maintain this tool. We don't want somebody
- 31:35Speaker 1: to ban on it because they don't understand it, which
- 31:38Speaker 1: it is complex, but the most important thing to understand
- 31:41Speaker 1: is that we are proactively educating our law enforcement partners
- 31:45Speaker 1: on one how the tool works, but to make sure
- 31:47Speaker 1: that we are doing it in the appropriate cases. Can
- 31:50Speaker 1: I ask an answer, Listen, here's my question for all
- 31:53Speaker 1: of those individuals whose DNA is being run without their knowledge,
- 31:57Speaker 1: as they claim the right to privacy people claim, what's
- 32:00Speaker 1: the harm to them if they haven't committed the atrocious,
- 32:04Speaker 1: horrific crime that's being investigated, What is the harm. I
- 32:07Speaker 1: don't see that there's a harm to this process, dude.
- 32:10Speaker 1: Joe Scott Morgan, forensics expert and author of Blood Beneath
- 32:13Speaker 1: My Feet on Amazon. Joe Scott actually really brings up
- 32:16Speaker 1: a good point because if I have a distant relative
- 32:19Speaker 1: that commits a rape and murder, and somehow my DNA
- 32:24Speaker 1: is examined to finally reach the identity of that distant cousin,
- 32:30Speaker 1: I don't know about it. It doesn't affect my life.
- 32:33Speaker 1: I'm happy they did. I have no problem with it.
- 32:36Speaker 1: The only person that has a problem with it is
- 32:38Speaker 1: the perpetrator. Joe Scott Morgan. Yeah, And I think that
- 32:41Speaker 1: the people that are going to be looking at privacy here,
- 32:45Speaker 1: they have a fear that, you know, in the long run,
- 32:49Speaker 1: what are the gatekeepers over these databases going to do
- 32:53Speaker 1: and handle the sensitive information. But I got to bring
- 32:57Speaker 1: this back all the way back to one point, Nancy.
- 33:00Speaker 1: The important thing here to remember is that all those
- 33:02Speaker 1: decades ago, we had law enforcement people that were on
- 33:06Speaker 1: the ground, that were doing their job that means that
- 33:09Speaker 1: they were able to collect DNA evidence. At that point
- 33:12Speaker 1: in time, they didn't know how far reaching DNA was
- 33:15Speaker 1: going to be. They were able to collect this physical
- 33:18Speaker 1: evidence they did. They went out and did their job
- 33:20Speaker 1: and did a good job at the scene. Remember, what
- 33:23Speaker 1: we're dealing with here is very very fragile biological evidence,
- 33:27Speaker 1: and all these years later, all these years later, it
- 33:31Speaker 1: would still remain in tact so that they could put
- 33:33Speaker 1: this guy behind bars. Two especial guest George s Giro,
- 33:37Speaker 1: DNA expert at Skills Biological Lab. George explained to me,
- 33:43Speaker 1: are these geneological websites, you know, like ancestry dot com
- 33:47Speaker 1: and all of that. How does for instance, ancestry dot
- 33:53Speaker 1: com get your DNA? Explain how it works well? And
- 33:57Speaker 1: NAS people doing geneological REA search will have their DNA
- 34:01Speaker 1: tested using certain kits and they'll take those they'll put
- 34:05Speaker 1: them into ancestry dot com and they'll look for relatives
- 34:08Speaker 1: to see if anyone, you know, if they can find
- 34:09Speaker 1: a distanct cousin or do family trees and that sort
- 34:12Speaker 1: of thing. Then there's also a public database called jetmatch.
- 34:16Speaker 1: And this is the number one thing I think that
- 34:19Speaker 1: I would encourage your listeners to do if they are
- 34:22Speaker 1: in jeedmatch. Jetmatch recently change their terms of service in
- 34:26Speaker 1: that they're automatically opting out everyone from law enforcement searches
- 34:32Speaker 1: of the database. What if if any of your listeners
- 34:35Speaker 1: are members of jet match, they need to make sure
- 34:37Speaker 1: if they're interested in continue to solve these crimes as
- 34:40Speaker 1: jet matches done, they need to opt in so that
- 34:44Speaker 1: law enforcement can search those profiles. And that I think
- 34:47Speaker 1: is the number one take home message that I would
- 34:49Speaker 1: have for your listeners as if you're a member of
- 34:52Speaker 1: jet match, to go ahead and opt in, because that's
- 34:54Speaker 1: going to give us a broader area to search and
- 34:58Speaker 1: to be able to find these potential killers and rapists
- 35:01Speaker 1: and get them off. Put it in a nutshell, George Cairo.
- 35:04Speaker 1: Don't people just spit into a container repeatedly and that's
- 35:09Speaker 1: how they give their DNA essentially even that or sometimes
- 35:12Speaker 1: it's by a swab, But yes, they'll just spit in,
- 35:15Speaker 1: send it in, get the results, and then, like I said,
- 35:18Speaker 1: they can, once they get those results from ancestry dot
- 35:20Speaker 1: com twenty three and me, they can then upload those
- 35:23Speaker 1: to the public database and jedmatch in order to get
- 35:26Speaker 1: their DNA profiles out there to see if they can
- 35:28Speaker 1: find any relatives, potential biological parents and those sort of things.
- 35:33Speaker 1: To Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Han, Chief Han, what did
- 35:37Speaker 1: it feel like. Do you remember the moment that you
- 35:40Speaker 1: discovered there had been a positive match and you, somehow,
- 35:46Speaker 1: after all these years, caught the rapist. Yeah. We've had
- 35:50Speaker 1: several of those over the last year and a half.
- 35:52Speaker 1: So it's a really good day when you hear your
- 35:55Speaker 1: guys go, okay, we have some leads and we're working
- 35:59Speaker 1: on them to confirmed them. So yeah, there's been a
- 36:02Speaker 1: lot and a lot of times we can do it
- 36:04Speaker 1: through the criminal database. But like these guys, the Golden
- 36:07Speaker 1: State killer, nor Cal rapist, and this guy, they hadn't
- 36:11Speaker 1: been arrested in half a lengthy criminal history through the court,
- 36:16Speaker 1: so they were literally hiding in plain sight, and I
- 36:18Speaker 1: don't know how we would catch him other than this.
- 36:21Speaker 1: You know, I'm thinking a lot right now about a
- 36:24Speaker 1: little girl, April Tinsley, an eight year old little girl kidnapped,
- 36:30Speaker 1: brutally raped, murdered, her body thrown in a ditch through
- 36:35Speaker 1: genealogical DNA. Her killer an Indiana man, John D. Miller,
- 36:43Speaker 1: when he got in court, he stood up. All he
- 36:48Speaker 1: was so shaky. All they could do is say his
- 36:51Speaker 1: name to a pact court room, and his voice shook.
- 36:55Speaker 1: He was afraid of the law, he was afraid of justice.
- 36:59Speaker 1: But when he had that eight year old little girl,
- 37:01Speaker 1: he wasn't afraid. He killed her. Genealogical DNA may be
- 37:07Speaker 1: the only solution to put people like April Tinsley's killer
- 37:12Speaker 1: behind bars, demons like Mark Mantafell behind bars. To all
- 37:19Speaker 1: of our guests, but especially Sacramento da Amory Shubert, Sacramento
- 37:24Speaker 1: Police Chief Daniel Hahn, thank you for being with us
- 37:26Speaker 1: and please continue to fight the good fight. Nancy Grace
- 37:30Speaker 1: Crime Story signing off, goodbye friend. To find out more
- 37:35Speaker 1: about investigative genetic genealogy, good I'm in for justice dorg