Presenting DNA: ID
Gone Cold - Texas True Crime
Vincent Strange
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
One of those episodes, episode 122, covers the case of Patricia Stichler.
New Years’ Day 1985 should have rung in an exciting new year for Patti Stichler and her three young daughters. Instead, in the middle of the night on January 1-2, someone slashed and stabbed Patti to death in her bedroom. Her three girls, ages 11, 9 and 6, were in their bedrooms just feet away. The oldest, Andrea, was the one to find her mom, and also found the most significant clue the police had – the open window in the blood-stained bathroom, and the gaping curtains that had been cut away from it. A knife sheath was found right outside, but the killer eluded police for decades. Sylvania, OH investigators focused on people Patti knew, but could not link anyone in her inner circle to the crime. Decades later, a very complex forensic genealogy analysis that required interpreting one-sided DNA matches, piercing adoption records, and a lot of luck, finally provided a name – and it was not who anyone suspected.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, if you listen to Gone Cold, you'll love the podcast DNAID. |
| 0:07.3 | The host, Jess Betancourt, also covers cases that went cold, that is, until the advent of forensic genealogy. |
| 0:17.0 | Murders that never would have been solved are now being taken off the shelf, |
| 0:21.3 | dust it off, and brought to resolution thanks to the powerful technique of building family |
| 0:26.5 | trees for unknown killers in order to find their names. |
| 0:31.0 | Jess gets all the details and relays the full story of what really happened behind the scenes |
| 0:36.8 | to nail the bad guy, so you'll never |
| 0:39.2 | be left wondering who did it. Also, Jess devotes episodes to John and Jane Doe's identified |
| 0:45.9 | by forensic genealogy, bringing answers to the families of missing loved ones at long last. |
| 0:53.1 | I'm about to play a short preview of one of Jess's episodes, |
| 0:57.0 | Episode 122, the case of Patricia Stitchler. |
| 1:01.2 | After you listen, head on over to your favorite podcast app |
| 1:04.9 | and subscribe to DNAID. |
| 1:07.9 | Jess has well over 100 episodes available to binge right now. |
| 1:13.1 | If you like highly detailed and thoroughly researched podcasts, you will love DNAID. |
| 1:19.9 | Season 5 debuts January 20th, 2025 with all new episodes. |
| 1:26.1 | This is Jess Betancourt, host of the podcast DNAID, which is about cold cases and dough |
| 1:31.6 | identifications solved by forensic genealogy. |
| 1:35.1 | You're about to hear a three-minute preview of the case of Patty Stitchler, who was murdered |
| 1:39.7 | in 1985 in a shocking, brutal stabbing. |
| 1:43.0 | This case stymied investigators for years until |
| 1:45.8 | forensic genealogy provided the lead investigators needed to close the case. After you listen to |
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