You're listening to a tenderfoot TV podcast.

Every time I drive home, I pass this building.

It blends into the skyline, beige concrete against gray sky,

but I can't unsee it anymore because I know what happened inside.

In the summer of 1993, a woman named Jeannie Childs was found dead on the 21st floor of

Horn Towers in South Minneapolis.

The scene was brutal, blood on the walls, footprints by the bed, and for decades,

her mom kept asking the same question.

Who did this? Detectives had blood, DNA, but no name.

Until a new kind of science, one that changed the world of crime solving, gave the case a voice.

Police say one of the country's most notorious serial killers has been found.

A four-decade-old search for one of history's most infamous serial killers may be over.

Police say they've now arrested the man known as the Golden State Killer.

The answer was and always was going to be in the DNA.

When detectives tried that same method here, in my home city, the results pointed to a man no one expected,

a man from small-town Minnesota, a husband, a father.

And what came next was anything but a simple ending.

I'm Slicia Stanton, and starting November 3rd, I'm bringing you a two-part series on the case of Jeannie Childs, a story about a mother's search for justice and the bombshell evidence that changed everything.

Listen for free wherever you get your podcasts.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be best friends with a murderer?

Or to escape a kidnapping.

Or to be the daughter of a serial killer.

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