8. The Breakthrough
The Unforgotten
Free Range Productions
4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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An interview with the county sheriff reveals a tantalizing lead in the quest to get justice for Shelley Watkins.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is April the 14th, Friday. I'm talking with Sheriff Bodie Hill House in Athens, Texas. |
| 0:08.0 | Thank you, Cheryl. For talking with me, I sure appreciate it. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm sitting in the office of Bodie Hill House, the current sheriff of Henderson County, |
| 0:18.0 | the same county where Shelley Watkins' murder has remained unsolved for 30 years. |
| 0:23.6 | So this case is technically still active? |
| 0:26.6 | Yes. |
| 0:27.6 | Can you talk at all about any of the lines you all are following up? |
| 0:33.6 | Sheriff Hillhouse is about to tell me some news I can hardly believe. |
| 0:38.9 | Remember, when Shelly was found in the Trinity River, she was wrapped up like a package in black |
| 0:44.2 | plastic and bound in duct tape. The sheriff's office saved all that material, the plastic |
| 0:50.9 | sheets, the tape, her clothing, the ropes, everything. |
| 0:56.8 | What if there was a clue hidden among the evidence, |
| 0:59.8 | something that might have been overlooked or impossible to find |
| 1:03.0 | when Shelly died in 1993? |
| 1:07.1 | We gathered up all the evidence, took it to California, |
| 1:14.6 | to a DNA lab, to try to find some touch DNA. That would be inside the package she was wrapped in? |
| 1:17.6 | It was all the evidence that we took. |
| 1:20.6 | I mean, we basically gathered up everything we had and took it to California and said, hey, can y'all go through this and see if you can find any touch DNA or any type of DNA that wasn't available at their time? |
| 1:32.8 | Sure. |
| 1:33.4 | Just the thing's changed dramatically. |
| 1:35.7 | We found out we had a possible profile. |
| 1:38.7 | A possible profile. |
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