Tight-Fitting Genes

Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A behavioral profile is helpful in a murder investigation, but it's not a road map to the killer. One such profile caused the Baton Rouge Police Department to search for the wrong man. They might have made an arrest had it not been for a DNA picture of the suspect painted by a molecular biologist.

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0:00.0	At times, a perpetrator's DNA is the only clue at a murder scene.
0:09.1	But what happens when you don't have a suspect to compare it to?
0:14.7	This case made forensic history when scientists saw in these genes, literally, the killer's
0:21.4	physical description.
0:30.0	In the 1600s, Baton Rouge and Louisiana got its name from French settlers.
0:39.1	It means red stick and referred to the pole marking the hunting area of local Indian tribes.
0:47.6	To this day, Baton Rouge is one of the most racially diverse cities in the country.
0:54.3	Pam Kinnamore knew the town's history well by birth and by profession.
1:00.4	Pam operated an antique store.
1:03.5	Pam loved life.
1:05.7	Every day, she couldn't wait to do all the things that she wanted to do.
1:10.4	She was fun.
1:11.8	She was exuberant.
1:13.2	She was enthused.
1:15.0	She was intelligent.
1:18.1	Shortly before midnight on a Friday in July 2002, Pam's husband Byron
1:24.2	called police to report his wife missing.
1:29.3	He said when he got home, the front door was wide open.
1:34.0	His wife's keys were there.
1:36.5	But Pam was gone.
1:39.0	Strangely, the bathtub was full of water.
1:42.8	It looked like she had been taking a bath.
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