San Diego Sheriff's Cold Case Unit steps into the past and pair old evidence with new forensic techniques to solve murders that might otherwise be left behind.
On February 11, 1931, ten-year-old Virginia"Betty" Brooks left her El Cerrito home, carrying books for school and a packed lunch.Twenty-seven days later, while herding his goats in what was then a remote area and now the intersection of Kearny Villa Road and Interstate 15, George Moses saw his dog sniffing around a gunny sack propped against a grassy knoll at Camp Kearny Mesa.
Meanwhile, the families of those who were brutally and inexplicably killed, many of whom have waited decades for answers, their hopes and questions fall to the San Diego Sheriff's Cold Case Unit. The detectives in this team step into the past and pair old evidence with new forensic techniques to solve murders that might otherwise get left behind.
Advances in technology now provide cold case detectives in San Diego County and beyond a fresh start on cases that have otherwise become part of San Diego's dark and lurid past. One of the first major cases where IGG was used was in 2018. Investigators tracked down the serial killer and rapist the Golden State Killer, who was later identified asDeAngelo committed the majority of his crimes in the 1970s and had gone unfound for decades. Investigators used semen collected from the crime scene and used genetic data people voluntarily provided GEDmatch to create a family tree that eventually led back to DeAngelo.
Cold Case Detective Brian Patterson says people want to help and they get plenty of cooperation through family members. Michelle Wyatt was brutally raped and murdered with a telephone chord in 1980He was 15 at the time. He said he remembers hearing about the murder at the condominium complex he delivered to.
Hogan was 18 when he killed Wyatt. Sheriff detectives say he lived in the same complex as her at one point in time.
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