Virginia 'Ginger' Freeman Part 2
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🗓️ 21 February 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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In part 2, we wrap up the case of Virginia 'Ginger' Freeman, and are joined by special guest, CeCe Moore from Parabon who did the genealogy work in this case.
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| 0:00.0 | Sheriff Kirk held a press conference announcing the breakthrough in the Freeman case. |
| 0:04.4 | He announced that authorities were almost certain that James Otto Earhart had killed Ginger. |
| 0:09.1 | He explained the forensic genealogy process and how it zeroed in on Earhart. |
| 0:13.8 | But as listeners know by now, a name in a forensic genealogy report is not enough to close a case. |
| 0:19.8 | But the BCSO was ecstatic when they got |
| 0:22.2 | Earhart's name because it was a name they knew. James Otto Earhart had been convicted in May |
| 0:28.2 | 1987 for the murder of nine-year-old Candy Curtland. The state of Texas executed Earhart on August 11, 1999. |
| 0:36.8 | But no DNA sample had ever been collected or analyzed from |
| 0:40.5 | Earhart. He had refused to give a DNA sample in the entire 11-year period he spent on death row. So, |
| 0:47.3 | shockingly, his DNA was not in CODIS. That era, the mid-1980s to mid-90s, preceded the statutes requiring convicted violent felons to submit DNA. |
| 0:57.9 | Now, it can be taken by force if necessary. But back then, if the guys said no, they had to leave it be. |
| 1:04.6 | It's mind-boggling to me that a child murderer could refuse to submit a DNA sample as recently as the mid-90s, but that was the |
| 1:12.1 | case in many states. So anyway, Earhart was dead and they didn't have his DNA for comparison to |
| 1:18.0 | any unknown samples in any case. In early 2017, having been at work on the case for months |
| 1:24.2 | without making much progress, Texas Ranger Josh Ray, working with BCSO investigator |
| 1:29.3 | Kenny Elliott, started making a list of previously uninvestigated potential suspects in the Freeman case. |
| 1:36.3 | This was literally a kitchen sink list. Every bad guy in the state who had not ever been looked at was on it. |
| 1:43.3 | And Earhart made their list after Sheriff |
| 1:45.4 | Kirk suggested he be on it because he had lived in Brian at the time of Ginger's murder, he was a known |
| 1:51.3 | killer, and younger photos of him resembled the snapshot image. Committed to a thorough investigation |
| 1:57.5 | of the names on the list. In April 2017, Ranger Ray and investigator |
| 2:02.6 | Elliot tracked down Earhart's still-living son in Nagadocious and asked him for a DNA sample. |
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