As a queer detective, this case is very unique.

Little did I know that this would lead to one of the most fascinating cold case homicides that I'd ever been

in part of. How did this case begin for you? So on December 3rd of 2017, the Sheriff's

Department received a 911 call from a homeowner reporting that their family dog brought back a human skull.

It came back with a human skull.

Yes.

And it had an obvious gunshot wound to the back of the head.

We kind of organized a grid search and within minutes located the clandescent grave right off in this area.

So Peter, this is an area right up here.

I'll follow you.

Now this is quite a thicket, isn't it?

It's a little thicket. If you see this little indention in the soil right here, that's where the skeletal remains were found.

We had a very circumstantial case. We literally have human bones, human remains, with a gunshot wound of the head, And at that point, is this a murder?

Is this a suicide?

We have a model of a human skull.

Can you show us where that wound was?

It's pretty much towards the back rear of the skull.

When you look at these scattered bones,

are they telling you a story? Yes, it tells me that it's most likely the story of murder.

We were reviewing missing persons cases throughout the Midwest,

but nothing was definitive to who this victim was.

When the cases come to the DNA Doe Project, everything's already been exhausted.

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