Velma Nesset Part 2 of 2
DNA: ID
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🗓️ 26 May 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Episode 148 Velma Nesset Part 2 of 2
This is part 2; the conclusion of the Velma Nesset case. If you have not listened to part 1 yet, please stop now and go back and listen to part 1 first.
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| 0:00.0 | In early 2020, the Texas Ranger's Unsolved Crimes Investigation Program was reviewing cold case |
| 0:06.7 | homicides to determine which might qualify for IGG analysis under the Sexual Assault Kid Initiative |
| 0:12.4 | known as Saki, funded by the Department of Justice and Bureau of Justice Assistance. |
| 0:17.1 | In February of that year, Texas Ranger staff Lieutenant Trampus Gooding, working with the DPS crime lab to identify cases with viable DNA, selected Velma's case as one with an unknown suspect DNA profile, which had been unmatched in codists for several years. |
| 0:32.9 | On February 10, 2020, Gooding assigned the Nesset case to Jeff Strain, the Unsolved Crimes |
| 0:38.6 | Investigation Program Ranger for Ranger Company E. Ranger Strain was tasked with conducting a review |
| 0:44.4 | of the case to determine if it could be advanced by subjecting the DNA sample in evidence to |
| 0:49.1 | updated technologies and testing methods. Strain reviewed the case file and evidence and then contacted Odessa Police Department |
| 0:56.6 | Sergeant Brad Davis and told him, DPS sought to submit the sample of semen from Velma's coat |
| 1:01.9 | to a private lab, Bodie Technologies, with the goal of obtaining a SNIP profile and then |
| 1:07.2 | undertaking an IGG investigation. Of course, Odessa Police agreed, and a cutting from Velma's coat containing a semen stain |
| 1:14.3 | was submitted to Bodhi. |
| 1:16.9 | Meanwhile, Rangers Strain partnered up with Odessa Police's Criminal Investigations Division |
| 1:21.3 | Robbery Homicide Unit Detective Justin Cade. |
| 1:24.0 | They started a massive review of the case file and entered the case into Vycap on June 30th, 2020. |
| 1:30.9 | Just before that, on June 24th, Ranger's Strain received a screening report from Bodey Technologies |
| 1:36.0 | regarding the DNA analysis of the suspect DNA profile developed from the semen stain. |
| 1:42.2 | The DNA origin report broke down the suspect's admixture, which was 43.26% North Atlantic heritage |
| 1:49.1 | and 26.45% Baltic heritage, and also included smaller percentages of other populations. |
| 1:56.2 | They were looking for a Caucasian suspect. |
| 1:59.7 | The sample was then submitted to gene-by-gene for processing |
| 2:03.0 | using microarray analysis. A call rate of 79% was obtained and was assessed as suitable for |
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