{"id":129916,"date":"2022-08-30T08:15:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T12:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=129916"},"modified":"2022-08-29T19:24:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T23:24:03","slug":"discarded-hotdog-napkin-helps-solve-cold-case-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=129916","title":{"rendered":"Discarded hotdog napkin helps solve cold case murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Murder-suspect-provides-DNA-sample-to-ancestry-site-helps-law-enforcement-trace-him-to-murder.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-129917\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Murder-suspect-provides-DNA-sample-to-ancestry-site-helps-law-enforcement-trace-him-to-murder.jpg?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Murder-suspect-provides-DNA-sample-to-ancestry-site-helps-law-enforcement-trace-him-to-murder.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Murder-suspect-provides-DNA-sample-to-ancestry-site-helps-law-enforcement-trace-him-to-murder.jpg?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Murder-suspect-provides-DNA-sample-to-ancestry-site-helps-law-enforcement-trace-him-to-murder.jpg?resize=768%2C431&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Murder-suspect-provides-DNA-sample-to-ancestry-site-helps-law-enforcement-trace-him-to-murder.jpg?w=890&amp;ssl=1 890w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investigators leveraged advances in DNA technology, and the presence of ancestry websites, to solve a cold case murder. Taking the DNA from the crime scene, investigators worked with a DNA\/ancestry website to find a possible match. Using social media, they discovered that their man of interest was planning to go to a game. He went to that game, ate a hotdog, then discarded a paper napkin after wiping his mouth with it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Fox News:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Minnesota man who murdered a woman decades ago was caught after he wiped his face with a hot dog napkin during a hockey game and was convicted of the killing last week.<\/p>\n<p>A jury convicted Jerry Westrom, 56, on Aug. 25 of first-degree premeditated murder and second-degree murder in the death of Jeanne Childs after a few hours of deliberation.<\/p>\n<p>Westrom was arrested 25 years after the June 1993 killing of Childs, who was found stabbed to death inside her apartment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My condolences go out to the victim and her family. They have had to live without justice for her brutal murder for nearly three decades,&#8221; Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said in a statement. &#8220;I hope this brings some closure to them. Today\u2019s guilty verdicts show that we will pursue convictions for serious crimes, even if it takes years to gather the evidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Westrom was arrested in 2019 after investigators retrieved a napkin he discarded during his daughter&#8217;s hockey game. He was eating a hot dog and wiped his face with it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News has the video and article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/minnesota-man-linked-cold-case-killing-through-discarded-napkin-convicted-murder\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators leveraged advances in DNA technology, and the presence of ancestry websites, to solve a cold case murder. Taking the DNA from the crime scene, investigators worked with a DNA\/ancestry website to find a possible match. Using social media, they discovered that their man of interest was planning to go to a game. 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