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Presenting DNA: ID · Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

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  Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, if you listen to Gone Cold, you'll love
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  Speaker 1: the podcast DNAID. The host, Jess Bettencourt, also covers cases
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  Speaker 1: that went cold, that is, until the advent of forensic genealogy.
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  Speaker 1: Murders that never would have been solved, are now being
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  Speaker 1: taken off the shelf, dusted off, and brought to resolution
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  Speaker 1: thanks to the powerful technique of building family trees for
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  Speaker 1: unknown killers in order to find their names. Jess gets
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  Speaker 1: all the details and relays the full story of what
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  Speaker 1: really happened behind the scenes to nail the bad guy
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  Speaker 1: so you'll never be left wondering who did it. Also,
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  Speaker 1: Jess devotes episodes to John and Jane does identified by
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  Speaker 1: forensic genealogy, bringing answers to the families of missing loved ones.
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  Speaker 1: At long last, I'm about to play a short preview
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  Speaker 1: of one of Jess's episodes, Episode one twenty two, the
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  Speaker 1: Case of Patricia Stitchler. After you listen, head on over
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  Speaker 1: to your favorite podcast app and subscribe to DNAID. Jess
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  Speaker 1: has well over one hundred episodes available to binge right now.
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  Speaker 1: If you like highly detailed and thoroughly researched podcasts, you
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  Speaker 1: will love DNAID Season five debuts January twentieth, twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: with all new episodes.
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  Speaker 2: This is Jess Bettencourt, host of the podcast DNAID, which
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  Speaker 2: is about cold cases and dough identifications solved by forensic genealogy.
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  Speaker 2: You're about to hear a three minute preview of the
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  Speaker 2: case of Patti Stitchler, who was murdered in nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 2: five in a shocking, brutal stabbing. This case stemied investigators
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  Speaker 2: for years until forensic genealogy provided the lead investigators needed
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  Speaker 2: to close the case. After you listen to this preview,
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  Speaker 2: find DNAID on your favorite podcast platform and search up
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  Speaker 2: episode one twenty two to hear how the story ends.
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  Speaker 2: The preview and thanks for listening. It was nineteen eighty five,
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  Speaker 2: barely though it was January second, the beginning of a
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  Speaker 2: new year full of promise and potential for Patty's Stitchler
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  Speaker 2: and her three daughters. The girls were on winter break
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  Speaker 2: from school and it was cold and dark in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the night in Sylvania, Ohio. But eleven year
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  Speaker 2: old Andrea woke up and needed to use the bathroom.
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  Speaker 2: When she did, she noticed her mom's door was open
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  Speaker 2: and the TV was on. But it was very, very late,
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  Speaker 2: Patty must have fallen asleep. Andrea walked into her mom's room.
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  Speaker 2: Patty lay on the floor between the foot of the
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  Speaker 2: bed and the dresser. She was face up and mostly naked.
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  Speaker 2: Blood was everywhere, avoiding the blood on the floor and bed.
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  Speaker 2: Andrea got to her mom and touched her hair, the
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  Speaker 2: only part of her that didn't appear bloody. Patty still
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  Speaker 2: looked like Patty, but her vacant eyes just stared upwards.
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  Speaker 2: She had a gaping cut on her cheek and she
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  Speaker 2: didn't move. Mommy, wake up, Andrea said nothing. Quick Thinking,
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  Speaker 2: little Andrea raced to the phone and called her dad, Gregg.
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  Speaker 2: Her parents were divorced, but Greg spent a lot of
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  Speaker 2: time with the kids, and Andrea knew his phone number
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  Speaker 2: by heart. She told him, I'm really scared. I looked
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  Speaker 2: into mommy's room and I saw blood. After some back
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  Speaker 2: and forth, Greg told her he would call the police,
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  Speaker 2: but she should immediately call the neighbor. They were friends with,
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  Speaker 2: Missus Johnston, and ask her to come over and not
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  Speaker 2: let her sisters leave their bedroom. Andrea called and woke
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  Speaker 2: Missus Johnston up. She said, my mom's all bloody. I
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  Speaker 2: think she's dead. Greg absolutely frantic, hung up with Andrea
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  Speaker 2: and called the Slovenia Township, Ohio Police, reporting a woman
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  Speaker 2: injured with lots of blood at five zero five five
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  Speaker 2: brin Haven Drive. His call came into dispatch at one
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  Speaker 2: forty nine am. After he called the police, he called
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  Speaker 2: the house back and kept Andrea on the phone. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: the neighbor, Missus Johnston, rushed over to Patty's and knocked
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  Speaker 2: on the front door, which was locked. Seeing her, Andrea
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  Speaker 2: unlocked it and let her in. Missus Johnston spoke to
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  Speaker 2: Greg briefly on the phone and then went into the
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  Speaker 2: master bedroom. Then she walked right back out and went
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  Speaker 2: out to await the police, whose lights she could see approaching.
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  Speaker 2: Sylvania Township. Patrolman Frank Glinka was on the scene at
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  Speaker 2: five zero five five Brinhaven Drive by one fifty two am,
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  Speaker 2: responding to the call of a woman down. Missus Johnston
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  Speaker 2: led him into the house. Three little girls were in
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  Speaker 2: the first bedroom, two were in bed, and one was
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  Speaker 2: standing in the doorway. That was Andrea, the one who
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  Speaker 2: had found her mom. When he saw Patty, the officer
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  Speaker 2: knew he needed back up. The master bedroom was a bloodbath.
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  Speaker 2: He radioed for Officer John Welsh, who arrived and accompanied
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  Speaker 2: Officer Glinka to the bedroom. Peering around the foot of
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  Speaker 2: the bed in the dim light of the TV an
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  Speaker 2: illuminated closet light, he could see that the woman on
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  Speaker 2: the floor was never going to be a mother to
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  Speaker 2: her girls again. When the rescue squad arrived and Commander
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  Speaker 2: George Milliere took a look at Patty, he didn't need
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  Speaker 2: to check for a pulse. There was nothing to be done.
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  Speaker 2: Officer Glinka quickly ushered Missus Johnston and Patty's three girls, Andrea,
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  Speaker 2: Kirsten and Elise out of the but first he let
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  Speaker 2: the two little ones use the bathroom. He then carried
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  Speaker 2: Elise and Kirsten, with Andrea and Missus Johnston following close behind.
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  Speaker 2: He put them all in his squad car and drove
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  Speaker 2: them down the block to Missus Johnston's house. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 2: Officer Welsh noticed the phone was off the hook in
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  Speaker 2: the house. He picked it up and asked if anyone
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  Speaker 2: was there. Greg was on the other end and he
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  Speaker 2: was hysterical. He asked if the girls were safe. Welsh
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  Speaker 2: assured him that they were, but Greg became more excited
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  Speaker 2: and hung up the officers summoned the town's small detective
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  Speaker 2: squad to the scene. They had a homicide on their hands,
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  Speaker 2: and a nearly forty year investigation commenced.