The Footprint Evidence
48 Hours
CBS News
4.1 • 7.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
A woman is murdered in her home and the pivotal clue at the crime scene is a bloody footprint her killer left behind. This episode last aired on 5/19/25.
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| 0:00.0 | On 13th of June, 1993, I was on call as a team leader for our crime scene team. |
| 0:20.0 | We had pagers then, no cell phones. on call as a team leader for our crime scene team. |
| 0:21.1 | We had pagers then, no cell phones. |
| 0:24.1 | And I got a page who was a sergeant requesting our assistance |
| 0:29.9 | on the 21st floor of this high-rise apartment building. |
| 0:41.3 | When you entered into the apartment, you didn't really see anything. You wouldn't have known that a crime had occurred. |
| 0:44.3 | When you went a little further, and you ended up going into the bedroom, it was catastrophic. |
| 0:53.3 | When I proceeded to where the body was on the side of the bed, |
| 0:58.0 | I looked down and I could see the imprint in blood that looked like a left foot and a right foot. |
| 1:04.0 | It's an actual bare foot. |
| 1:07.0 | I mean, wow. |
| 1:10.0 | I turned the TV on. I saw, wow. I turned the TV on. |
| 1:12.6 | I saw the apartment. |
| 1:14.6 | They said they just found a young woman in her early 30s. |
| 1:20.6 | Oh my, I just got chills all over. |
| 1:24.6 | Don't tell me that was Jean. I called the coroner's place and he said, are you all alone? |
| 1:35.5 | You better get somebody over there with you because it was your daughter. I couldn't |
| 1:43.1 | believe it. |
| 1:50.9 | Jeannie Childs had defensive wounds on her hands when they found her. |
| 1:57.2 | She had been stabbed at least 65 times, including after she had died. |
| 2:00.6 | Investigators took DNA evidence at the time. |
| 2:01.5 | They could not find who it belonged to. |
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