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Episode 153 A conversation with former FBI agent Julia Cowley Our guest today is Julia Cowley, who retired from the FBI after 22 years at the agency. She has a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Oregon and a master's degree in forensic science from The George Washington University. Before joining the FBI, Julia was a Special Agent/Forensic Scientist with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. When she joined the federal agency, Julia was first posted to the Boston Division. She was also a member and team leader on the Boston...
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Episode 152 Danielle Houchins Part 2 of 2 This is the conclusion; part 2, of the Danielle Houchins case. If you have noy yet listened to part 1 yet, please stop now and go back and listen to that part first. This is the last regular episode of DNA: ID before the show goes on summer hiatus, with a crossover episode dropping on June 30th. We’ll be back in late August with all new episodes! To listen to every episode of DNA: ID ad-free and get other benefits, simply on Apple Podcasts to get started with an AbJack Insider subscription. Of course, you can...
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Episode 152 Danielle Houchins Part 1 of 2 In 1996, Danielle “Danni” Houchins was an outdoorsy 15 year old growing up in Belgrade MT. The new driver went for a solo hike at her favorite recreation area outside town, the West Cameron Bridge fishing access site, on a fall Saturday. She did not come home. Searchers found her body face down in inches of swampy water. The ME, coroner and sheriff ruled her death a drowning. But the manner of death was labeled undetermined… even though injuries to Danni’s person, and forensic evidence, said otherwise. And thus...
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Listen Now: The Rise & Fall of Diddy: The Federal Trial Episode 1: The United States vs. Sean Combs Opening statements rock the courtroom as federal prosecutors accuse Sean “Diddy” Combs of running a decades-long criminal enterprise built on violence, sex trafficking, and power. The defense hits back hard, painting it all as a toxic relationship, not a RICO case. Then Cassie Ventura takes the stand, and everything changes. Her voice may be quiet. Her story is not. Listen here:
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Episode 151 Doe ID: Anthony Gulley In December, 2001, a pair of men cutting firewood in Canton, Ohio made a gruesome discovery not far off into a field from a county road. They found a skeletonized body with no identification. A medical examination concluded that the body was likely that of a young African-American woman between the ages of 22-31, and about 5”7” tall. Later DNA analysis would prove that the victim was actually Male, and not Female. By that point, valuable time and resources had been spent trying to match the victim to case of missing women. DNA and genealogy would also...
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Episode 150 Sarah Yarborough Part 2 of 2 This is the conclusion of the Sarah Yarborough case. If you have not yet listened to part 1, please stop now, and go back and listen to that part first. To listen to every episode of DNA: ID ad-free and get other benefits, simply on Apple Podcasts to get started with an AbJack Insider subscription. Of course, you can also support DNA: ID with a . Follow us on these social media outlets: - - - - - - Find all of our links in one spot at our Linktree: For all things DNA: ID,...
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Episode 150 Sarah Yarborough Part 1 of 2 There are some case that really grip the community, that undercut the sense of safety and security, and that make people lose their faith in humanity. The murder of Sarah Yarborough was such a case. Sarah was just 16 years old when she was sexually assaulted and murdered in one of the places she should have felt the safest – the grounds of her high school. Not only that, but the crime happened in broad daylight, and there were witnesses who saw her killer. It was impossible that he was not apprehended – but he wasn’t. Despite...
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Episode 149 Doe ID: Kay Adams Medin In February 1993, a man walking along Trinidad Head; a rocky promontory beach area near the town of Trinidad in Humboldt County, California, made a shocking discovery. He found what he believed to be a piece of human skull. He contacted authorities who verified his hunch. DNA from the skull fragment would be entered into various databases in an effort to learn the identify of the donor with no luck. Years later, the skull fragment would be connected to another case through DNA. In November, 1987, the Humboldt County Sheriff's dept received an package...
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Episode 148 Velma Nesset Part 2 of 2 This is part 2; the conclusion of the Velma Nesset case. If you have not listened to part 1 yet, please stop now and go back and listen to part 1 first. To listen to every episode of DNA: ID ad-free and get other benefits, simply on Apple Podcasts to get started with an AbJack Insider subscription. Of course, you can also support DNA: ID with a . Follow us on these social media outlets: - - - - - For all things DNA: ID, visit the to buy DNA ID...
info_outlineEpisode 145 Doe ID 'Singer Island Jane Doe' Susan Poole
On June 16, 1974, a man and his two sons were searching for driftwood on Singer Island in the Burnt Bridge area of North Palm Beach, Florida when they found human remains. Investigators descended on the area and found more of the skeletonized remains along with tattered and weathered pieces of clothing. There was no ID with the body, and police would face an uphill battle identifying the remains which were thought to be those of a young woman or teenage girl between the ages of 14 and 25. It was believed that the girl had stood between 4ft11 and 5ft'2 tall, and that she weighed between 83 and 103 pounds. Police found evidence that she had been tied to a tree, leading them to believe that she was likely the victim of a homicide. With not much to go on, the case of the girl that would become known as 'Singer Island Jane Doe' went cold.
Although police didn't know who their victim was, they thought they knew who killed her; a vicious, and sadistic serial killer and predator named Gerard John Schaefer. Schaefer worked as a sheriff's deputy for the Marin County, FL sheriff's department, and he had murdered and attacked several women and young girls in the area where Singer Island Jane Doe had been found. If Schaefer did indeed kill Singer Island Jane Doe, he took his secrets to the grave after he was murdered by a fellow inmate whil in prison.
In 2022, after the Palm Beach County sheriff's office teamed up with Othram Labs to perform genealogy on the DNA from Singer Island Jane Doe, they finally learned who she was; Susan Gale Poole. She had been reported missing from her Brower County trailer park in December, 1972 when she was 15 years old. Police are confident that she's the victim of Gerard John Schaefer, and in fact, he was responsible for the murder of another girl that lived in the same trailer park as Susan. Although it will likely never be established how she crossed paths with her killer, her family is relieved to have her remains so that they could give her a proper farewell.
'Singer Island Jane Doe' has her name back now; it's Susan Poole, and this is her story.
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