Thirty years ago, a man in California discovered a shocking sight while looking for aluminum cans. He found a newborn baby boy, wrapped in a pink and blue blanket, inside a red shopping bag. The baby was believed to be around three days old. The body was found at an unofficial garbage dump on Garin Road in Monterey County on December 3, 1994. Police couldn’t identif...
30 years after a newborn was found dead in a paper bag at a dumpsite, a mom from California has been arrested. Pamela Ferreyra, 60, was taken into custody after DNA tests confirmed she was the baby's mother. The infant, known as "Baby Garin," was discovered by a can collector in Monterey County back in 1994. Authorities found the baby on Garin Road, with "Garin" mean...
Detective Cliff Shepard was the lead investigator in the Rasmussen case, but he struggled to find evidence. He discovered that a crucial bite swab had gone missing. With help from Jennifer Francis, a criminalist at LAPD's Scientific Investigation Division, they located the swab at the Medical Examiner's Office. The DNA profile did not match any names in law enforceme...
The case of Carmen Van Huss' murder had gone cold, but 31 years later, DNA technology brought it back to life. In March 1993, Van Huss' father found her lifeless body in her Indianapolis apartment, raped and stabbed 61 times. The crime scene was replete with DNA evidence, which was submitted to a specialty company in 2018. The company's genetic genealogy analysis wor...