Michelle Martinko | DNA Solve
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Crimelines True Crime
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🗓️ 22 February 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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For 40 years, the city of Cedar Rapids wondered if they had a killer among them. And when the case finally looked solved thanks to DNA, the defense looked back to evidence collection methods from the 1970s and said it wasn’t such an open-and-shut case.
This case is *solved*
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| 0:00.0 | For 40 years, the city of Cedar Rapids wondered if they had a killer among them. |
| 0:15.9 | And then, when the case finally looked like it was solved, thanks to DNA, the defense looked |
| 0:21.3 | back to the evidence collection methods. |
| 0:24.2 | From the 1970s and said this was not such an open and shut case. |
| 0:28.6 | I'm Charlie and welcome to Crime Lines. |
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| 0:59.9 | Okay, so let's get into the case. |
| 1:02.4 | This story is about Michelle Martinco and is one of Iowa's most famous cases. |
| 1:09.0 | It's usually a combination of factors that will make a case stick out in the memory of |
| 1:14.4 | a city or a region. |
| 1:16.8 | In this case, it was the combination of the shocking nature of the crime as it occurred |
| 1:21.5 | in a public place where things like this just didn't happen. |
| 1:26.5 | The victim was a young woman with a bright future and the leads dried up so quickly that |
| 1:32.6 | the police repeatedly went to the media to try to generate more tips and all of that |
| 1:39.1 | gave this case a lot of publicity. |
| 1:42.7 | But let's back up and talk first about the victim here, Michelle Martinco. |
| 1:47.4 | She was born when her older sister was 12 and their parents were in their mid 40s. |
| 1:54.0 | While a surprise like this may have thrown some families for a loop, the Martinco's couldn't |
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