Michelle martinko was born on october six ninety sixty one in cedar rapids in a state of iowa. She was the youngest of three daughters of albert and martinko in her childhood she was diagnosed scoliosis and had to wear a brace to went from her hips to her neck. Due to this she was a very shy and quiet child and hardly spoke to another children at school. As a teenager she was described as a normal girl worried about things related to her age like school tests close and voice.
Michelle attended kennedy high school she was an above average student in very well regarded by her teachers it is said that she was a talented artist and she performed in several of singing groups and theatrical productions. She was also part of beat I’m truly a kind of artistic gymnastics. She was in her final year of high school and when she graduated jet been to steady interior design at iowa state university.
On december nineteen nineteen sixty nine michelle a t that a banquet with her school musical group this bank it was hell at the sheraton allergy hotel located in downtown said or rapids.
After to banquet michelle invited her friend jim hansen was also at the event to the west the omar a model kidding the southwest of the cd it had recently opened jane said she couldn’t go as she was behind some homework and she wanted to catch up michelle then went alone she had her father’s car and nineteen seventy two buick. And one hundred and eighty dollars that you would use to buy a new code for the winter. She already knew this more very well haven’t gotten the job their months before when she arrived at the place to left the card in the parking lot and into the mall is was around seven pm. Inside she found some friends from school were also shopping she chatted with them for awhile and then went to the store to buy her coat.
That was the last time as show martinko was seen alive. The hours best and as a young woman didn’t return home or parents were very worried it was to a and michelle’s father decided to call the police report what had happened immediately the police went looking for the young woman around the city. At around four am a found the nineteen seventy two buick vehicle in a corner of the west the mall parking lot.
As they approached the noticed that there was someone inside line on their back in the passenger seat. When they open the vehicle door they found a bloody at body of michelle martinko.
The captain of the detective office at a time charles jelinek was the one who broke the said news to the victim’s parents. Describing the crime scene charles said in his own words michelle was wearing a rabbit fur coat and there was blood a rabbit for all over the car she was lying on her back want in the passenger seat of the buick illini against a car door. According to the medical examiner michelle had twenty nine punctures and her body in the region of her face neck and chest. This boaters were caused by a sharp object that he couldn’t specify precisely.
There are also several gotten her hands and forearms indicating that you tried to defend herself from the attacker.
Michelle is not abused or rubbed or the police the crime seem to be have a personal nature in this case revenge.
The police even made a sweep of the place to see could find a weapon using the crime but they were unsuccessful.
There was no blood on the floor of the parking lot or around the vehicle which indicated that michelle had been killed inside the car also no fingerprints were found in a vehicle that did not belong to any member of the merchant of family thus the police assumed that the criminal had used gloves to commit the crime and for him to have thought about it a crime may have been premeditated.
The case of young student be sober tiga was reported throughout the local and regional media the police were looking for answers and so with the family. Jim hansen michelle’s friend who refuse to go with her to the mall because of her homework. That you got a call from michelle’s mother at four thirty in the morning and didn’t believe it when she heard the news she said that she felt guilty for not going of her friend them all and that if she had accepted imitation made michelle could be alive. Still according to her it was a very scary time nobody knew who the criminal was and he was still around and could make new victims it is sad that if fear was so great that several women in the city after fulfilling work hours as the security guards to accompany him to the car. It was clear that is brutal crime not only shut the city but also caused many to choose to routine for fear of being the next victim in june nineteen eighty the police heard from to alleged two witnesses who provide a description of the men believed to be the responsible for the crime.
These witnesses were hypnotized so that he could pass on as much detail as possible to the would have the police arrest a criminal and solve the case. According to them.
The men was white no more than twenty years old about six feet tall and had dark curly hair. Composite sketch of the suspect was made based on this information as you can see in the screen.
Despite having the characters whose of the alleged criminal in hand the police were unable to reach any one who to be responsible for the crime the police then went after a nineteen year old boy named andy sito.
And he was an ex boyfriend of michelle’s did you dated for two years before she broke up with him. According to the victims’ relatives and it didn’t take this break up very well.
Also according to them the boy wanted to know where russia was going if she was seeing someone and who that person less he also used to question her friends so that they were giving information about the young woman’s life. In the course of investigations officer discovered at any see the was the same on the night of the crime and that he had met michelle there.
And he was taken in for questioning but he was to root out as a suspect as he had an alibi that proves he was already home at the time of the crime although and it was riddled with the police’s suspect many town believed he was responsible for the crime and his behavior to and michelle’s funeral for eerie for to townspeople suspicions a bear left the coffin quite a lot and had been.
Shows by several times at one point it went to a friend of michelle’s and started asking I need to know she loved and she died it you love beauty she loved make a detour love and you died when a strange behavior in the eyes of the man he was considered a potential suspect the police had nothing against him so I said before it was rooted as a suspect.
As soon as he graduated from high school and the left town into and the united states navy. The police also question my query a college student the michaud started dating as soon as she separated from andy.
Mike like any and a relationship with the shell but he didn’t date he was taken in for questioning him and ask where he was at the time of the crime he said he was in college. Might even proved to cops but for some reason they thought he was hiding something. The cancer pretty harm him the even put crime scenes foot on the irrigation table to intimidate him according to mike tindall photos was very painful for him. As the officers had nothing substantial against mike they released him and redoubt him as a suspect time passed and the clues that the police investigated lived in the were with no options they decided to turn to the local community in appeal to deceit is residents to provide any information that would happen in diversification. They also offered at ten thousand reward to anyone who provided brew information that would lead them to the criminal more than two hundred people provided information to the police investigated all promising leads interrogated dozens of people’s using the polygraph one of these people was a boy who said he followed me around the mall some witnesses even said he saw him. Doesn’t a female mannequins in a strange way.
The police investigated these young men and so room them as a suspect. As other in history behavior there was nothing to leak into the crime. By most after michelle’s death a woman to the police that in the early hours of december twenty around two am she drove her car in front of the parking lot of them all but a primitive base as her daughter’s car who was one working on site had stayed there because it was broken as she drove to the parking lot she said that in addition to her daughter’s car she’s on shows buick seven. To it it are open in a man standing by the door.
When schiller of the crime she best information onto the daughter of the secretary of the commissioner of public safety and believed it would be passed on to the police it mattered.
However disinformation never reached to police in the only learned about this months later. Detectives even considered accusing the commissioner of not best in his information on to the police but no charges were made. In a rumors have surfaced and the police wasted a lot of time investigating as they were going after any formation the emerged later the police arrested a man who had broken into a house with a knife and first a woman to have intimate relations with him. By thirty her saying he would kill her children. This from happening a month before majority cause death and although he did nine volt and the decays he was a potential suspect however he was never charged as the police could not find evidence linking him to decried time passed and at least run out of options the even ask psychics for help but it wasn’t vain.
Until the mid eighties the case was shelved. Michelle parents to the owners of the west the of all alleging negligence for failing to provide adequate security lawsuit ended up in the iowa state supreme court which ruled in favor of the most owners.
The shows father overreaching go died in nineteen eighty five and her mother janet died in nineteen eighty eight without anyone knowing was responsible for daughter’s death. In two thousand and six did to do five years after the crime.
Cedar rapids police received information about the case which ultimately lead them nowhere however while one of the detectives was examining your the evidence that was collected a crime scene he noticed that there was someone else is bloated address me shows very when she was attacked later with the have of dna test the did not exist at a time of the crime discovered in a dish.
The rest there’s also someone else is blood and a deer bugs that the buick seventy two v it was with michelle.
It has proven that display belong to a man that was certainly responsible for the bride according to the police it must have been injured while striking michelle the victim’s blood was if causes him to sleep on to the blade cut in the glove and consequently his hand in a breathless thus leaving his bloody scene of the right.
Danny was suing intact the analysis was able to conclude that only one in one hundred billion people would measure dna profile and with their dna in hand detective needed to locate who would belong to.
The police entered a result into code is united states dna database that hosted in a record of thousands of people however no dna matched what they had found they didn’t decided to death the dna of also speaks the had interrogated over the years to see if matched to sample the head in total one hundred and twenty five man wears emanated.
But he any have none of the match to a the crime scene in police were once again left with no options. In two thousand and thirteen more than thirty years of a crime police received a tip the lead them to potential suspect however he suspects dna didn’t mesh guinea fowl it a crime scene.
Also in two thousand and thirteen robert riley a resident of cedar rapids and former student of kennedy high school the same skirmish oh studied created a facebook group called me shower tico code gays ninety seventy nine in this group he will begin to share discuss information related to the michelle and crime. In two thousand and fifteen waited thirty five years at a crime.
Adaptive med dellinger took over the case. Matt is the son of harvey dellinger one of the first date it’s to work and michelle’s merging cause case.
May two thousand and seventeen contacted parable none labs a virginia based company that provides dna finish typing services to law enforcement organizations bearable can predict and organisms phenotype including it’s physical appearance in burning and graphic ancestry using only the genetic information from the dna in short they were able to know what person is. Like just by using their dna.
Bourbon generated photo realistic illustration of the criminal through dna samples taken in two thousand six a white man with blonde hair blue eyes quite different from the sketch police released in eight eighty they included images estimating his appearance he ninety seventy nine and also in two thousand and seventeen with asian effect is that a rapids police department beat five thousand dollars for a disservice. Yes. In possession of these images the police had a press conference where they show the face of the person legit responsible for the definition martinko the same press conference the after if the population recognize them on resembling the facing the image just to contact the police the also offered if thousand reward information that would actually help them get to criminal and if only week.
It’s it receive been reports from people claiming to know the man was virtually every white blonde blue eyed meal over fifty are set foot in the state of iowa had become a suspect. This ended up harming the police we’ve been checked some of these complaints which ultimately came to nothing. The following year and regressive detective met dellinger bearable to the dna data it had on a criminal and fed it to death match a public genetic genealogy website that has been used by law enforcement officers to sub numerous court cases one of the most famous was a joseph of dame de angelo also known as to go to sit killer arrest in two thousand and eighteen a d h seventy. Two accused of numerous grams of to rise california in the seventies and eighties. Through the dna data entered in jet match the were able to locate a woman who was related to criminal probably a cousin.
The company created a family three started with four pairs of this woman’s great grandparents reported that prepared to was likely descend into one of these couples the officer spend the next few months using genealogy records birth records and headstone records to put together a family tree interested the pepper trader a detective conducted members of two branches of for.
Emily whose dna was tested and eliminated those branches as the criminal was not part of them he did could take that a member of a third branch and in a desert trimmed dispersant was a criminal cousin mean to had the same grandparents is reduce the number of suspects to three brothers can if burns turbines and done it burns one of the three men with their spouse. Us before the death of michelle martinko.
The three were from manchester a city also the state of iowa that is an hour from cedar rapids detectors began to keep an eye on them and begin trying to collect their dna without them knowing give birth dna they managed to get from his trial use after having lunch at a restaurant done by the needed to from a footbridge had gotten this trash and turbines they managed to get. Of his trial he used to drink soda at a pizzeria the three items continued to suspect in a recent for analysis. Kenneth burnt don’t burn were clean a dna didn’t mesh in a of the crime scene. But george burns was an exact match. It was clear to the detectives the turbines with demand had been looking for for over thirty five years but who was your bones jury was one and similar to the third nineteen fifty three and he was twenty five years old at a time of the crime.
He grew up in manchester iowa and graduating ninety seventy two and were still were high school. United seventy five emerged patricia burned with them he had the children he owned a powder coating company and was also burning a truck stop. There was above suspicion he was seen as expect a businessman and a family man.
The to strange things happen related his family the first that in two thousand and eight his wife patricia took her own life and on simmer nineteen two thousand and thirteen or cousin brian burns disappeared in was never found again. Remember to december nineteenth the same day a month that michelle meticulous killed but as far as is known to is that related to these two incidents. Dated my dellinger decided to go after jeremiah to ask him some questions quoted to mad he wanted to get a confession and even took a hidden camera for it.
On december nineteen two thousand and eighteen exactly thirty nine years after michelle merging cause dead met deadlier met with jerry bones.
At first but addictive as how jury was in didn’t find himself as the police it didn’t ask whether jerry knew about them schumer to case mother had ever been to sit rapids.
Drew said it had been to the city but he didn’t know about the majority goes case but your imagined a detective about the keys jody houston dude journalese to disappeared and june thirty seven nature and five and was there were found. I have this come to tease you in the channel and if you haven’t watched go there it after this video.
Does mention of georgia later may detectives he publicized the jerry was also involved in his crime as gives cases there were solved.
The detective said his dna was found crime scene which are brushed it off and said he didn’t know how it happened. Modelling a realized the jury would not have fast but he didn’t he was found that crime scene already rented an arrest.
The authors officers jurors burst a computer and he felt some disturbing things he was fixated on seen blonde women suffering the worst possible ways something extremely seek any jerry was then arrested and taken to custody a cedar rapids a coin is detective met dellinger he didn’t show any reaction he kept to the whole time if he didn’t care. And he’s of jury burns arrest caused quite a stir initiative cedar rapids finally the person responsible for the death the were t was arrested thirty nine years after the crime.
Relatives and friends of the victim celebrate the fact is managed to didn’t believe was real the name of the group on facebook michelle martinko could gays ninety seven nine was changed to michelle martinko ninety sixty one and ninety seventy nine the of birth and death of the young woman.
See the previews name refer to insult case which was now been solved. On february twelve twenty twenty turbines trial began to show me us family and friends are present including and set of the ex boyfriend of the young woman are many leavers possible for the grain.
During the trial the prosecution emphasized it was unlikely that the day felony crime scene was from anyone other than job is to dress michelle marching coordinated the crime was presented to the jury it had mark of the places that for appears when she was attacked the defense argued that the dna evidence was compromised and different pieces of clothing the crime scene should not have been store to get enough to. His bag.
The defense also brought a forensic dna eagle solid have spoken about the possibility the police had stored evidence he correctly he cleaned the jar by the unique and been pleased to secondary transfer arguing skin cells can be transferred to a night in of course you in person bumps into another however it was proven that there was blood from the defendant on the victims dress in car it to certain not because of of. Bump. According to police turbines didn’t know michelle were tinkle as far as it’s known a full the her in kill her for no apparent reason detectives investigator possibility that he’s a serial killer that he may have killed other women turbos daughter jennifer in her brother donald said an interview that he couldn’t believe the men they knew in love so much was couple of such a horrible act which are merging of. Older sister denounce husband goes to breaker said they were thrilled to have the keys resolved according to them they had already given of hope and did not believe that a criminal would one day be caught. Other family members and friends are digging for the same way and were very leave any case was finally resolved. I’ll lukewarm to place ninety seventy nine more than forty years ago meaning to see it’s remember the incident. And girl was to in high school is kinda park lot of a busy mom and no one so anything or many is left leftists kind of city’s history it is unlikely to be raised.
On august seven twenty twenty carry burned was found guilty in the first be murder for show martinko who a citizen left to prison without parole.