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Little small town Niles has this brutal, savage murder.
There are kids that grew up locking their doors
and being scared when they went to bed at night just because
of this case.
Roxanne Wood in 1987 was married to Terry Wood.
Roxanne and Terry went to the bowling alley
and arrived in separate cars.
Roxanne left earlier than Terry.
He just wanted to keep with the fun
he was having, and Roxanne wanted
to get home and go to bed.
Terry arrives home and notices Roxanne laying in the kitchen.
He notices a pool of blood on the floor.
She was bleeding profusely from her neck.
City Police.
Oh my God.
My wife has been murdered.
I answered the phone, and I could
tell something was bad wrong.
He just broke down.
He just said, someone murdered your sister.
Rock being the rock of the family,
she didn't have an enemy out there.
Who just randomly breaks in and does this to someone?
She was sexually assaulted.
The assailant left his DNA.
But in terms of the essential evidence,
based on what was there, this went cold fairly quickly,
did it not?
Based off on what they had to go on, yeah.
The DNA technology wasn't there to really follow up and go
through on, and there was absolutely not a lot more
to go off.
How frustrating was it that no one had been arrested?
Oh, beyond frustrating.
I was starting to lose hope.
Dr. Ashlyn Kuersten and I had been
talking about involving the students at Western
in a cold case project.
When we first got the file, it was just
an amazing amount of data.
It just looked overwhelming.
Some of the documents are older than I am.
Then, we would have to sort through
if it was relevant information or not, hours upon hours
to scan all this stuff.
They were able to organize that report where
we were able to put a keyword in and search
across that entire document, 3,500 pages.
How important was that?
Hugely important.
I was hopeful that we would be able to solve the case
or move the case forward or that someone who
came after us would.
The first thing that I did was I requested access
to the case file.
It was very easy to read through quite quickly due to the work
of the students.
Gabriella Vargas is a genetic genealogist,
probably one of the best in the country, if not the world.
But I'm also a pink-haired, tattooed mom from California
who enjoys woodworking and gardening.
Describe the size of the DNA material
that you had to work with.
It was 28 picograms, so small that you could never
see it with the naked eye.
Just a speck of a speck of a speck,
about the size of a human cell.
Very, very, very small amount of DNA.
It was deemed unsolvable prior to my involvement.
Roxanne Wood's family was my motivation
for working as hard and as fast as I did.
They never gave up hope that, one day, justice
would be served.
They have a Facebook page.
Janet Wood had made a post on the page.
One day, Rock, one day.
And I screamed out at the top of my lungs,
no, today's your day, Rock.
Today's your day.
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Brad Woods remembers February 20, 1987 like it was yesterday.
He was just 14 years old.
I was getting ready for school, and I
can remember my mom pounding on the bathroom door,
saying to hurry up.
She needed to talk to me.
Hours earlier, Brad's 30-year-old sister Roxanne,
known as Rock, had been nearby in her Niles, Michigan home
alone when she was viciously attacked, her throat slashed.
When I came out, she had told me that she had gotten a call
that Rock had been killed.
Devastated, Roxanne's family couldn't imagine why
anyone would want to harm her.
She always made people think you were her best friend.
She just loved everyone.
High school graduation, gorgeous hair.
Definitely had the hair.
She was tall, statuesque.
She dressed to the nines.
That was very important to her.
She was very classy.
Janet Wood could not help but admire her older sister.
Their parents were divorced, and Roxanne
had taken on a maternal role with her siblings.
With divorced parents, a lot of times,
you feel like you're being shuffled
between house to house.
And the one thing that was always stable for me was Rock.
She was being mom to you.
Yup, Rock, she was always there.
She was your Rock.
She was.
Roxanne's last name would eventually
change from Woods to Wood--
And Rock's Terry and Rock.
--after meeting future husband, Terry Wood, shortly after she
graduated from high school.
She was working at his father's company.
Terry was still in high school on the wrestling team.
And in he walks, and he's in his wrestling shorts and whatever.
She said that was the nicest looking legs she ever saw.
And she was just smitten by him right away.
Roxanne and Terry married in 1982.
She said it was the happiest day of her life.
Six years later, Janet would change her name
from Woods to Wood as well when she
married Terry's brother, Rob.
Both brothers wound up working for the family business.
For Roxanne and Terry, it proved to be a bit too much
togetherness.
They got dressed in the morning together,
and they rode to work together.
And they came home for lunch together,
and then they went back to work together.
Roxanne's solution, taking a job in nearby South Bend, Indiana.
A little time apart seemed to help the marriage.
Very, very content, happy, looking forward
to starting a family.
February 19, 1987 started out as a typical Thursday
evening for the couple.
They met for dinner at a restaurant in downtown Niles
after work and then went to a local bowling alley,
arriving in separate cars.
From the report, you could tell when Roxanne
entered that bowling alley.
All eyes were on her.
Michigan State Police Detective Sergeant John Moore.
There wasn't a whole lot of ladies
there because this was the men's bowling league,
so she drew some attention.
As midnight approached, Roxanne was ready to call it a night,
but Terry wanted to stay.
There's witnesses where Terry and she said goodnight
to each other--
hug, kiss, love you, drive safe.
After Roxanne headed home, Terry stayed behind
and bowled another game.
He then headed home and arrived here about 45 minutes
after his wife.
Terry entered the house through the garage.
And once inside, he came upon a horrific sight.
She was laying on the floor.
She had her nightgown on.
He said there was a lot of blood.
According to Detective First Lieutenant Chuck Christensen,
Terry said he rushed over to Roxanne.
He got behind her, according to him,
and picked her head up and held her head and see--
--and see if she was alive?
To see if she was alive, yes.
Finding no signs of life, Terry grabbed the phone
and called the local police station.
She is dead.
She has been cut.
Terry noticed that her panties were down
around her knee/ankle area.
Her nightgown was pulled up.
Now listen to me, OK?
At times, Terry seemed to get belligerent
with the person trying to help him.
I'm going to get some information from you,
and I'm going to get a car started, OK?
No, get 50 [BLEEP] cars started, [BLEEP]..
Now!
They are started.
No, they're not.
Now, [BLEEP] now!
The dispatcher kept Terry on the phone.
Don't scream into the phone because the phone distorts,
and I can't understand you that well, OK?
You mean so you can get a recording on it.
No, I'm trying to get some information from you, OK?
Yeah, right.
Terry's aggressive demeanor on the phone
quickly became a red flag, according to investigators.
Is that suspicious behavior to you?
It's a bit suspicious.
Typically, they're in shock, distraught, but not
normally do you hear that anger component in there to the level
that it is in this one.
Detective Sergeant Jason Bailey says a seed of suspicion
grew even more once police arrived at the home.
He definitely had fits of rage.
I know, at one point, he was screaming.
He wanted a supervisor, a sergeant there.
Is he making himself a suspect by this kind of behavior?
Everybody reacts differently.
But based on this abnormal reaction,
I believe he was making himself a suspect.
First responders eventually had no choice
but to subdue Terry by placing him
in the back of a patrol car.
And when they drove him down to the police post
for routine questioning, Terry quickly
asked for an attorney, which set off more alarm
bells for investigators.
The detective at that time told him within 5 to 10 minutes,
you did this, and I will not rest
until I put you away forever.
An investigator said that to Terry.
I believe you're the killer.
I believe you're the killer, and I will not
rest until you're behind bars.
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As investigators began piecing together
clues in Roxanne Wood's rape and murder,
the emerging picture offered up just one suspect,
her husband Terry.
There was no sign of any forced entry.
Did that raise eyebrows?
Absolutely.
But Terry told police they'd been having
problems with the lock on the back door,
claiming it didn't work.
Investigators, however, remain suspicious.
We have a sheath up here of a fillet knife
located near the body.
That filet knife, presumed to be the murder weapon,
had been taken from a kitchen drawer.
It was never found.
That would be odd that a killer would come to a house
without a weapon.
Terry told police that he'd slipped in Roxanne's blood
as he lifted her head to check on her,
but there were no blood smears indicating
he'd actually done that.
Investigators thought they discovered a potential motive
when they looked into Roxanne and Terry's past.
We did uncover a extramarital affair by both parties.
By both parties?
And so when you have a murder like this
and you learn there was some infidelity, are you wondering,
could jealousy have been a motive?
Absolutely.
I remember the detective saying, it was rage.
It's only someone close to her would have this kind of rage.
I never bought that.
Janet firmly believed in Terry's innocence.
I just knew him too well.
So that just didn't fit with what I knew.
Terry wasn't a rageful guy.
He may have a sharp tongue occasionally
but never a violent person.
Despite strongly suspecting Terry,
investigators didn't believe there was enough evidence
to charge him.
After just a few months, the case
went cold, leaving a cloud of suspicion hanging over Terry.
He declined our request for an interview.
I had heard stories that, at times, he'd walk into a place,
and somebody would call him Slash.
DNA was left at the crime scene.
A sample was preserved.
But given the limitations on technology back in 1987,
not much could be done with it.
Still, Roxanne's family never gave up.
I didn't lose hope ever.
I mean, this guy just didn't do this and then
lead a clean, pristine life the rest of his life.
DNA technology evolved, eventually allowing the sample
to be uploaded to the criminal database CODIS in 1999.
But no match was returned.
As disappointing as that was, everyone
was hopeful that the DNA would at least clear Terry
when it was tested against his.
The result, it wasn't Terry's DNA.
So did that eliminate Terry as a person of interest,
as a suspect in this case?
No.
Why not?
It's not his semen.
Just because you find semen in somebody
doesn't necessarily mean that person
is the one that killed them.
After that, the case offered no new leads, until 2020.
After more than three decades of compiling thousands of reports,
police were drowning in paperwork.
That's when a professor and an innovative group of students
here at Western Michigan University
figured out a way to speed up the investigation.
The real world experience, I think, is priceless.
You see that marine--
Dr. Ashlyn Kuersten teaches a criminal justice studies
program.
For years, she's been talking to detective Christensen
about how her students might help on a cold case.
What a great partnership that would be if we could ever make
something like that happen.
So the professor and the detective came up with a plan.
Dr. Kuersten's students would process around 3,500 pages
of documents, accumulated since the day Roxanne was murdered,
into a single, digitized database.
Samantha Rodgers was one of several students
who worked on the case.
The officers, they're able to search by name
and see if they've already been interviewed,
if they needed a follow up.
They can search locations, things
that they want to be able to do just flipping through thousands
of pages.
McKenzie Stommen says the decades-old files
were a solemn reminder of how long some victims wait
for justice.
It gave a sense of gravity to what
we were doing, that these cases have gone unsolved for that
long.
Around the same time, the students began crunching data,
Christensen decided it was time for a Hail Mary pass.
Colleen Fitzpatrick is the president and founder
of Identifinders International, a company that specializes
in genetic genealogy.
It's been used in forensic cases to help identify
unidentified remains and violent offenders for violent crimes.
Christensen hired her genealogy company
to examine the tiny amount of DNA left from Roxanne's case.
We found out there was, what I would call,
a gnat's eyebrow of DNA left, about 3%
of what we normally use.
That was the lowest amount of DNA
we've ever had to work with to solve a case.
Identifinders spent about 10 months
working with the data the sample produced but came up empty.
It really did feel impossible.
It really did.
Then, one day, in April 2021, Colleen
happened to be chatting with investigative genetic
genealogist Gabriella Vargas, who worked as a consultant
for Identifinders.
And I said, well, why don't you let me look at it?
I concluded that I did not stand with the others.
I believed that this case was extremely solvable,
and I believed that I could solve it.
So Gabriella got to work.
Incredibly, she was able to generate a genetic profile
from the killer's trace DNA.
It tells me where their ancestral origins come from.
Are they Eastern European?
Are they Mediterranean?
Are they African American?
And what was the race of this person?
Caucasian.
Gabriella then turned to an online DNA service.
When consumers use DNA sites like 23andMe and ancestry.com,
they can take their results and upload them
to a broader database called GEDmatch in the hope of finding
more relatives.
They can choose to opt in to law enforcement matching.
If they do that, I can see if they are a match to my suspect.
Gabriella was able to use GEDmatch
and the genetic profile she developed
to start to build the family tree of Roxanne's killer.
How far back did you go in time?
One side of the tree, the ancestor was 1823.
On the other side, the top ancestor was 1797.
Essentially, what we're looking for amongst these matches
are where they connect to each other,
and it led me to a union couple.
A union couple is where two sides of the family tree meet.
This couple was born around 1920.
Based on that, we can presume that they would have
kids around 1940, maybe 1950.
It would have to be one of their children.
The couple she found had three sons.
She let the detectives know.
They did background checks and eliminated two of the three
brothers as possibilities.
They were down to the last brother.
He's been involved in a lot of different things.
Violent things?
Violent things, sexual deviant things.
You name it, he's probably been involved in it.
And you connect the DNA with someone
who has a history of violent behavior?
You got yourself a suspect?
Yup.
Absolutely.
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After 34 years and one last chance
at solving this case with a speck of DNA too small
to see with the human eye, detective Chuck Christensen's
daring bet paid off big.
And to know that we had come to this point was simply amazing.
Michigan State Police now believed
they had finally tracked down Roxanne Wood's killer.
We were confident now we were going to solve this and make
an arrest.
You could now pinpoint who that individual was that had
committed these awful crimes.
And who is that person?
That individual is Patrick Gilham.
Patrick Gilham, a man who is living just
a few miles from where he allegedly raped and murdered
Roxanne Wood.
And it turns out he had a troubled past.
Had been a drinker.
Is he into drugs?
He's into drugs, just an individual that
was lost in life and a bad individual,
based on his background.
When detectives dug into Gilham's criminal history,
they found a connection to another disturbing case
eight years before Roxanne's attack.
My wife, Maureen, was attacked by Patrick Gilham in 1979.
Robert and Maureen Farag and their two young daughters
lived in Gary, Indiana, back in September of 1979.
We were just kind of blossoming into adulthood with the kids,
with our lifestyle, with our jobs.
Robert was economic director for the city,
and Maureen was an art teacher at the local middle school.
What is it about Maureen that you fell in love with?
Wow.
I can't say one thing only.
She was very attractive, which just caught my eye.
She was so nice.
People gravitated to her because of her warm personality.
One night, while making his way home from a business trip,
Robert called Maureen with a favor.
I said, Maureen, I don't have my keys to the house.
So could you leave the side door open?
At around 11:00 at night, Robert turned onto his street.
He'll never forget what he saw.
When I pull up, I see the police cars.
Robert quickly found Maureen, who calmly told him
she was in bed when she was startled awake by a noise
downstairs.
Maureen sees this guy going through her purse.
He got scared, whatever, and chased her.
Maureen started going upstairs, and he
grabbed her at the bottom of the stairs and got on top of her.
And he tried his best to molest her.
He wasn't successful.
Maureen told Robert the man then took her purse and fled.
Throughout the attack, Maureen had stayed quiet.
She didn't want to awaken her two girls.
That takes an incredible amount of courage.
She was willing to sacrifice herself there, if need be,
to protect her one- and three-year-old daughters.
Maureen had a lot more than courage.
She had strength.
About a week later, Gilham was pulled over in Gary
for a traffic violation.
A police officer noticed credit cards on the seat next to him.
They were Maureen's.
Police officer called me and said, we picked the guy up.
We're bringing him into the station.
When he was interviewed by police,
he said, all I remember is going into the house,
and I blacked out and woke up with my pants around my ankles.
Patrick Gilham was charged with burglary
and unlawful deviant conduct.
He pleaded guilty and was sentenced
to 14 years in Indiana State Prison.
How did you go on with life from that point?
We forgot about it.
We changed our house.
We changed our neighborhood.
She never told anybody because she
felt that was a private issue.
Patrick Gilham served just seven years of his 14-year sentence.
About four months after his release,
police believe Gilham assaulted Roxanne Wood.
Criminals learn as they go, and I
believe he learned from that first crime he
did that, "I better not leave this witness alive
because I will be in prison for a long, long time."
Maureen died in 2018 from cancer not knowing anything
about the Roxanne Wood case.
Now, armed with their DNA evidence,
investigators were ready to move in on Patrick Gilham.
At this point, we decide to get a surreptitious sample
to compare to the profile that we
had from Roxanne Wood from the scene,
and we do this through our undercover surveillance team.
I'm Ryan Codde, and I am a trooper with the Michigan State
Police.
And you do some undercover work from time to time?
I do.
I'm assigned with the fugitive recovery
team for the 5th District.
In May 2021, Codde and his team surveilled Gilham
in South Bend for days on end and picked up
a crucial clue that would aid them in collecting his DNA.
We noticed that he was a smoker.
And why does that help you?
Just in the simple fact that when you're smoking,
it's a great source of DNA.
You have your lips directly on the butt of the cigarette,
and your saliva gets in the cigarette.
Hot on Gilham's tail, the team witnessed their target
flick a cigarette butt outside his truck window while driving.
And so, oh, boy.
You're rubbing your hands.
You're going, this is going to be
that final piece of the puzzle that you had talked about,
right?
Yes, yes.
But there's a twist.
We sent that up to the lab right away.
A couple of days later, the lab director calls me, and he said,
it's not a match.
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DNA is DNA.
If it's not a match, it's not a match.
Detective Moore says investigators
were shocked when the lab called to say the DNA
sample from Patrick Gilham's cigarette butt
did not match Roxanne's killer.
We were scratching our heads.
I called the trooper that grabbed that cigarette butt,
and I said, is there any way at all that
you lost sight of that when it flipped out of his finger?
And he said, a car drove by right then.
It was possible the cigarette butt tested was not Gilham's.
The only thing logically that we can do
is go back and get another one.
So undercover trooper Ryan Codde headed back to work,
once again tailing Gilham.
He pulled into this laundry mat, which
we saw as a window of opportunity
that he would most likely be coming out
to take a smoke break.
This time, Codde was determined not
to lose sight of Gilham's discarded cigarette
butt for even a moment.
And instead of tailing him in a car,
Codde followed Gilham on foot.
I'm not a smoker.
And there was a gas station right over on the corner
that I saw.
And I was like, well I need to go over and get
a pack of cigarettes and sit on the curb
next to the laundromat.
He came and took a seat probably about six to eight feet away
from me, and we had a smoke together.
So how did you strike up a conversation with him?
I just tried to say hi to him, made some small conversation.
He liked the Red Wings.
It wasn't long before Gilham finished his cigarette
and went back inside.
I saw him throw his cigarette, which
was right in about this area.
So it was a great situation because the cigarette
was by itself.
So I pull out a glove and go over,
and I picked the cigarette up with my hand.
Was it still smoking?
It was still warm.
Yes, it was.
So I wrapped it up inside that glove.
I stuck it in my pocket and headed out.
Investigators held their breath until the results from Gilham's
cigarette butt came back.
It was a perfect match to the DNA left at the 1987 crime
scene.
I was ecstatic.
I was very, very happy.
But investigators were not yet ready to make
an arrest, opting to bring Gilham
in for an interview in July 2021.
You're not in trouble.
You're here voluntarily.
Detective Bailey says they told Gilham
they needed to question him about an old case.
You know anybody by the name of Roxanne?
He explains to us.
I know two Roxannes.
And he says one's a stripper, one's a drug addict.
Gilham was shown a picture of Roxanne Wood.
That girl look familiar?
You ever met her before?
Nope, never met her.
[INAUDIBLE] That's a newer picture.
Here's an older picture.
Then, Gilham was shown a second photo of Roxanne.
Nope.
Never seen her?
Never met her?
Don't know who she is?
And I said, well, we're here to talk to you about her.
This woman's been assaulted.
This is too much for me, man.
You can see his body just tense up and almost
to the point of hyperventilation.
Hands started shaking, threw his hands back in the air.
I've never had a reaction out of somebody like that
in 23 years of doing this.
Does he continue talking?
I got to talk to my lawyer.
At that time, he requested to speak to his attorney.
I got to talk to my lawyer, man.
In February 2022, just days shy of the 35th anniversary
of Roxanne's murder, Patrick Gilham
was arrested at his South Bend, Indiana home.
An answer a family has waited 35 years for.
Roxanne's brother Brad Woods.
It didn't seem real.
It was nothing like I had ever played
in my mind of how I would be when they came to the door
to say, we've got him.
Detective Christensen then met face
to face with the man who had lived
for decades with cruel rumors and doubt, Terry Wood.
I sat him down, explained he was no longer a person of interest,
and we knew he had nothing to do with it.
How did he react?
He was very emotional.
He started crying, of course, was bewildered and in shock.
As a 35-year-old burden was lifted off Terry,
the hammer was about to fall for Gilham.
You're under arrest, OK?
Investigators questioned him for 5 and 1/2 hours at a police
station in South Bend, with Gilham only
asking for an attorney at the very end.
At times, he spoke in circles.
I just can't believe I did it, if I did it.
But you're saying I did.
When pressed on it, he kept saying, you guys are telling me
I did this.
And if I did this, I'm a monster.
I'm a monster, man.
If I did that, that's a monster.
That's a monster, man,
Only a monster would do this.
Let me ask you this.
How do you think your DNA was found with her?
I have no clue.
How do you think?
I have no clue, man.
He said that several times during the interview.
When he was confronted with the case facts, he kept saying,
I don't remember.
I don't remember, man.
I told you--
I don't remember doing that.
But Janet says Gilham's reaction when
he was questioned seven months prior proved he was lying now.
He visibly reacted, shook like a leaf, leaned back in his chair,
pounding his chest.
I got to talk to my lawyer.
I think I need a lawyer.
You tell me he doesn't remember what he did.
Gilham was charged with Roxanne's murder.
But had a golden opportunity to apprehend
him decades earlier slipped through investigators' fingers?
I truly believe that I would have been raped and murdered.
See more of the evidence and timeline at 48hours.com.
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In the summer of 1987, just months after Roxanne Wood
was murdered in her home, her alleged killer
crossed paths with yet another woman.
It was a hot night in South Bend, Indiana,
when Rose Caparell went outside to her front lawn.
I was standing down there, watering.
And all of a sudden, I hear this loud car
coming down the street.
Rose, standing alone, says she noticed a blue El
Camino, similar to this one, driven
by a stranger, getting closer,
I looked, and he had a tail light out of the car.
About three or four minutes later,
I hear the same car coming back down the street.
Now, it had a bad muffler, right?
Oh, the muffler was loud.
I just got a feeling that something just wasn't right.
And by the time I got halfway to my front door,
a man came around the corner of the house.
He had a stocking cap on, and he had a full beard.
All you could basically see was his eyes.
I just turned and ran, screaming down the street.
Have you ever run faster in your life than that moment?
And I'm not a runner, and I ran.
Rose says she ran to a neighbor's house
and called local police, but the assailant had escaped.
What do you believe would have happened if that man had
caught up to you?
My thought was he was going to rape me.
A few days later, while Rose and her family
were driving to dinner, her daughter Tina
says she spotted that same blue El
Camino with a burned-out tail light in a parking lot.
My mom says right away, that's the car.
Stunned, Rose and Tina say they went to call the police,
leaving Rose's husband Stan, a retired Marine, waiting
for the car's owner.
I came back to my dad holding a gun at the attacker sitting
on the ground.
Tina says her father demanded the man hand
over his driver's license.
They say the name on that license, Patrick Gilham.
We had never heard the name before.
Rose says the police never arrived,
so Stan lowered his gun and let Gilham leave.
She says she later reported the incident at the South Bend
Police Station.
We didn't pursue it because we figured they would
be doing something with it.
No arrest was ever made.
Decades later, when Rose saw the report of Gilham being arrested
for Roxanne Wood's murder, she and Tina
decided to tell their story to the Michigan Police.
Imagine if the police had come.
They might have solved Roxanne Wood's case just a few months
after it had occurred.
Possible, yes.
An opportunity lost?
Yeah, yeah.
It could have went that way.
But in April 2022, Gilham's day of reckoning finally came.
When he walked in, I openly said, piece of [BLEEP]..
I didn't realize I was saying it as loudly as I did.
In a Michigan courtroom, he faced
some of the people whose lives he had viciously altered.
And he made eye contact with me.
He sat down, and he looked up.
And he stared right in my face.
I don't remember, man.
Even though Gilham had insisted to investigators
that he didn't remember murdering Roxanne,
he later pleaded no contest to second-degree murder.
And now everyone waited for his sentence to be handed down.
It was almost like being face to face with the devil.
I remember being shaky and nervous,
and I just couldn't believe I'm sitting this close
to the person that did this.
Brad and Janet finally got the chance
to address the man who killed their sister
all those years ago.
Patrick Gilham is a very definition
of a nightmare women fear our whole lives.
Gilham appeared confused as though he'd seen a ghost
when looking at Janet.
He wore headphones in order to hear.
Janet does look a lot like Rock.
He was probably in shock seeing her sitting there.
His actions gave all of us a life sentence,
while he got to live most of his as a free man.
And we are here today to see him finally pay
something for what he's done, which is likely
the rest of his life in a cage like the violent animal
that he is.
It seems people like him tend to find Jesus in prison.
Don't bother looking because the devil will
be the only one greeting you.
When it was his turn to speak, Gilham
offered an apology and a prayer.
I can't believe I did what I did.
And I pray for them every night.
I am so sorry.
I just hope that sometime in the future,
with God's help, that they can start to forgive me.
The judge sentenced Gilham, who was 67 at the time,
to a minimum of 23 years in prison.
Sitting in court, Terry Wood, now vindicated,
watched as his wife's real killer was led away.
Robert Farag witnessed Terry's pain firsthand.
I shook his hand.
He was shaking, crying.
I felt more empathy for him than I could for any other person
I've met.
Terry was cleared and his wife's killer
found, thanks in large part to advances in technology.
Genetic genealogist Gabriella Vargas,
who solved a decades-long cold case in just four days,
says she's eager to do it again.
As a result of your work, more and more
law enforcement agencies will be coming
to you, more and more families hoping
that you can do your miracle work
and solve their cold cases.
That's quite a burden for you, isn't it?
Oh, absolutely not.
It's an honor.
It's an honor to be able to work these cases,
to bring justice to these victims and closure
to these families, and I will never stop.
As the Wood family finally found some peace,
they're Rock will always be with them, giving them the strength
to move forward.
Janet remembers a dream she had about her sister.
We were downtown Niles, and she came up and grabbed me.
And she goes, Janet.
And I was like, oh, Rock, oh my God.
And we're walking and walking and walking and just laughing.
And all of a sudden, I look up, and it's dead silent.
And we're at the gates of the cemetery.
And I said, oh.
I said, you have to go back, and she goes, yes.
She goes, but it's fine.
She goes, I'm good.
I'm really good.
That was it.
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