Tonya McKinley Part 1 of 2
DNA: ID
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🗓️ 10 April 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On new year's day 1985, the body of a woman was found lying on the dirt shoulder of a residential street in Pensacola, Florida. She was battered, bloody, and partially undressed. Tonya had last been seen celebrating New Year's Eve at a local bar with friends – but no one knew when she left, or with whom. Multiple pieces of physical evidence, including semen and hairs, were found on her body, but before the advent of modern forensics, they led nowhere. Multiple suspects remained on the list for years, until DNA testing ruled them out, and police were no closer to finding who killed Tonya than they were in 1985. Then forensic genealogy pointed to a man who was living in the area at the time – and still was. Police arrested Daniel Wells for Tonya's murder, and prosecutors started to build their case against him when it was all cut short.
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| 0:45.3 | I'm It was a good It was 1985, New Year's Day. |
| 1:10.2 | A young woman named Sherry Edwards was not having a good start to the new year. |
| 1:15.4 | Her dog was sick, sick enough that Sherry, her mom, and her boyfriend, Jeff, decided to take the pet to a 24-hour veterinary clinic in Sherry's hometown of Pensacola, Florida. |
| 1:25.7 | They set out around 5.15 on New Year's morning a Tuesday. |
| 1:30.0 | They drove south on the 4,800 block of Peacock Drive the block Sherry lived on. |
| 1:35.6 | Sherry looked out the car window and was startled to see what looked like a body lying on the |
| 1:39.8 | dirt shoulder of her residential street. She said, Mother, there's somebody lying in the street. |
| 1:45.4 | She thought it was, what else, a mannequin. Mary Lloyd turned the car around and shined the |
| 1:50.9 | headlights on the body. She later told the Pensacola News Journal, quote, she was in terrible |
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