The Trail Went Cold - Bonus Episode - DNA: ID

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

If you like highly detailed and thoroughly researched podcasts, you will love “DNA: ID”. The show has over 100 episodes available to binge on right now. This is a sneak preview of Episode 122 (https://www.abjackentertainment.com/dna-id/9xglar65zhwgblh), which 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. For all things “DNA: ID,” including past episodes, news, and more, please visit the show’s homepage (https://www.abjackentertainment.com/). “DNA: ID” is available on all major podcast apps and players; please subscribe to the show on your favorite app, so you don’t miss a single episode. An all-new season begins in January, 2025.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. Over the course of the past few months, we've done a couple of feed drops to promote other true crime podcasts that we believe listeners of The Trail Went Cold will enjoy, and this time, we'd like to provide an endorsement and a preview for the podcast, DNAID.
0:16.9	The host, Jess Betancourt, also covers cases where the trail went cold until the advent of
0:23.3	forensic genealogy. Murders that never would have been solved are now being taken off the
0:28.3	shelf, dusted off, and brought to a resolution thanks to the powerful technique of building
0:33.5	family trees for unknown killers to find their names. In DNAID, Jess gets all the details
0:40.1	and relays the full story of what really happened behind the scenes to nail the bad guy,
0:44.6	so you'll never be left wondering who did it. Jess also devotes episodes to John and Jane Doe's
0:50.5	identified by forensic genealogy, bringing answers to the families of missing loved ones
0:55.5	at long last. Given that the Trail Went Cold recently dropped our sixth update episode about
1:01.0	cases from our show which have been solved, we thought you might appreciate a podcast
1:05.4	which is made up entirely of these types of stories. I'm about to play a short preview of one of Jess's episodes, which is
1:12.7	Episode 122, The Case of Patricia Stitchler. After you listen, head on over to your favorite podcast app,
1:20.5	and be sure to subscribe to DNAID. Jess has well over 100 episodes available to binge right now.
1:27.4	If you like highly detailed and thoroughly research podcasts, you will love DNAID.
1:33.1	Season 5 debuts January the 20th, 2025 with all new episodes.
1:38.5	Enjoy the preview.
1:39.9	This is Jess Betancourt, host of the podcast DNAID, which is about cold cases and dough identifications solved by forensic genealogy. You're about to hear a three-minute preview of the case of Patty Stitchler, who was murdered in 1985 in a shocking, brutal stabbing. This case stymied investigators for years until forensic genealogy provided the lead investigators needed to close the case.
2:04.6	After you listen to this preview, find DNA ID on your favorite podcast platform and search up episode 122 to hear how the story ends.
2:13.6	Enjoy the preview and thanks for listening.
2:16.5	It was 1985.
2:18.2	Barely, though, it was January 2nd, the beginning of a new year full of promise and potential for
2:23.3	Patty Stitchler and her three daughters.
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