Troy and LaDonna French

DNA: ID

AbJack Entertainment

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Episode 32 Troy and LaDonna French

In 2012, a young woman called Rockingham County, NC authorities in the middle of the night and reported that an intruder had shot her parents. Troy and LaDonna French were mowed down with bullets in their own home. Their daughter Whitley, was left to tell the unbelievable story. Investigators knew that the killer was someone with access to the house – but who? After three years and 65 failed DNA comparisons, they were stumped. They decided to use sophisticated partial DNA matching to compare the killer’s DNA with that of someone close to the family – someone whose DNA did not match the killer’s in a straightforward comparison. Then, phenotyping gave them even more information - and what they found blew the case wide open.

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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,
0:09.9	including The Murder in My Family, Missing Persons, Beyond Bizarre True Crime, Zodiac
0:16.4	Speaking, Scene of the Crime, and Three Men and a Mystery.
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0:40.3	The Episode 32, Troy and LaDonna French.
1:11.6	It was 2012, I know, much more recent than the vast majority of the crimes I've covered to date.
1:18.1	At 2.12 I am on the morning of February 4th, a 911 call came into the Rockingham County, North Carolina Sheriff's Office.
1:25.8	The cell phone caller, a woman, was hysterical, screaming and unintelligible.
1:29.3	I'm going to play an excerpt.
1:31.3	You might want to turn your volume down a little bit because the audio could be jarring.
1:35.3	Right, I'm getting that one one.
1:38.3	I don't know.
1:39.3	Somebody broke in that house.
1:41.3	He saw my parents.
1:43.3	Somebody broke into your house and shot my parents. Somebody broke into your house and shot your parents.
1:47.0	Yes, yes.
1:48.0	All right, hold on.
1:50.0	What you are going to get somebody to you.
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