Doe ID: Darylnn Washington
DNA: ID
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🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Episode 157 Doe ID: Darylnn Washington
In 2006, a Jane Doe was found in a vacant home on the east side of Detroit. Police efforts to identify her were in vain, but the name of her killer soon emerged as a slew of murdered women were all linked to one man – Shelly Andre Brooks. Brooks confessed to murdering Jane Doe, but what can be done when the killer never knew his victim's name? The answer is – investigative genetic genealogy. An IGG analysis pointed to a close family member of Jane Doe, and testing confirmed her name as Darylnn Washington.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to DNAID. |
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| 0:05.4 | Be sure to check out some of the other great true crime podcasts from this network, |
| 0:09.8 | including The Murder in My Family, Missing Persons, Scene of the Crime, Zodiac speaking, |
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| 0:40.3 | The The |
| 0:57.0 | The On June 5, 2006, police discovered the nude, significantly decomposed body of a supine woman. |
| 1:30.6 | This was in a vacant home at 2646 Harding Street on the east side of Detroit, Michigan, |
| 1:36.5 | where Detroit PD Sergeant Shannon Jones tells me it's not uncommon to find bodies |
| 1:41.4 | who have been undiscovered for months or even years. |
| 1:45.2 | An autopsy noted the following about the Jane Doe. She was black. She was between 20 and 30 |
| 1:51.0 | years old, and she stood about five feet tall. She was slender and wore red toenail polish. |
| 1:57.1 | Her cause of death was strangulation and blunt-forced trauma to the head. |
| 2:03.8 | The pathologist concluded that she'd been dead for at least a week. |
| 2:07.2 | I don't know whether a sexual assault kit was administered. |
| 2:15.6 | I was told that Jane Doe was very decomposed, so it's entirely possible that obtaining vaginal, oral, and anal swabs was not an option. |
| 2:18.9 | However, samples were collected that would be tested to obtain Jane Doe's own STR DNA profile. In terms of physical characteristics that were |
| 2:25.8 | potentially recognizable, Jane Doe was missing her right maxillary central incisor, a front tooth |
| 2:31.7 | that would have been very noticeable. She still had some fingerprints that |
| 2:35.6 | the medical examiner was able to lift, but they weren't of sufficient quality to be useful in |
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