Reesa Trexler
DNA: ID
AbJack Entertainment
4.8 • 871 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In 1984, 15 year old Reesa Trexler was attacked, raped and stabbed in her grandparents’ home in Salisbury, NC. Her killer left very few clues behind, and police were stumped as to the identity of the teen’s murderer. They focused their attention on those close to Reesa. At the same time, residents of the small town whispered about Reesa’s murder, and placed the blame on someone very close to her. But the rumors were wrong. Decades later, forensic genealogy would lead to answers about Reesa’s killer, and would exonerate the person who had been guilty in the minds of many.
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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, |
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| 0:28.0 | Subscribe where you're listening to this podcast so you don't miss an episode. The It was 1984. |
| 1:08.0 | 15-year-old Risa Don Trexler lived with her family at the corner of Shaver Street and Bringle Ferry Road in Salisbury, North Carolina. |
| 1:18.4 | Her mom and stepdad were Vicky and Doug Oates. |
| 1:21.4 | Risa's biological father, Gary Trexler, also lived in Salisbury. |
| 1:26.2 | Risa shared a bedroom in the family's very modest white siding house with her 13-year-old sister Jody, |
| 1:32.3 | and the two were close, despite the standard teen girls squabbles. |
| 1:36.3 | Salisbury at the time had two different sides of town. |
| 1:39.3 | One was more affluent and one was less so, with working-class neighborhoods. |
| 1:43.3 | The area where Risa's family |
| 1:45.1 | lived was poor and experienced some crime. Friday, June 15, 1984 was an exceptionally hot day. The kids |
| 1:54.1 | were on summer break and it started out typically. That morning, Risa had her friends Paul and |
| 1:58.9 | Jim over and they all hung out and watched TV and had lunch. |
| 2:02.8 | They were joined by Risa's little sister Jody. |
| 2:05.3 | When the friends left to go to work around 3 o'clock, the two girls each did their own thing hanging out in the house. |
| 2:11.5 | After a time, Jody went to look for Risa and realized she wasn't home. |
| 2:15.3 | She started to walk next door to her grandparents' house, about |
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