DNA Breakthrough Solves 1997 Washington Murder
The FOX True Crime Podcast
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4.7 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Paris Pizzeriere. Your blind dates is already at the table and here she is. Cousin Brenda, what are you doing here? You're married anyway. Substitution brought to you by Paddy Power. Cousin' Brenda makes me for Beth, the office crush. Oh, get in! You might not always pick the right starter, but your sub can still deliver. Because with Paddy's Super Sub, your bet rolls over to the player coming on. Patti power. Valid on selected leagues and markets only. Pre-match and in-play bets on qualifying player outcome selections only. T's and Clusions apply. 18 plus scummalware.org. I'm Gianna Jalosi with your Fox True Crime Minute. After nearly three decades of mystery, DNA has finally helped solve the cold case homicide of a floral designer and mother of two in Washington State. |
| 0:41.6 | Back on January 3rd, 1997, the body of Margaret Anselmo was found in a snowy alley laying face down under an abandoned semi-truck trailer. |
| 0:49.8 | Police say she was raped and bludgeoned to death and the victim of an apparent random act of violence. |
| 0:54.3 | The spokesman review reports Anselmo was only outside that day because she had left her an apartment |
| 0:58.9 | to cash a check and when she was found underneath that semi-truck trailer, the money was still |
| 1:02.8 | inside her purse. Evidence left by Anselmo's killer was collected but the case went cold |
| 1:07.0 | until three years ago when that evidence was submitted to a forensic lab in Texas. |
| 1:15.9 | Using genetic genealogy, police got a hit, identifying the suspect as Brian James Anderson, |
| 1:20.8 | who died by suicide in 2009. He was just 20 years old when he's believed to have murdered Anselmo. |
| 1:25.3 | Police have not established a motive. There's more on this story at Fox News.com or subscribe to the Fox True Crime Podcast. I'm Gianna Jalosi with your |
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