1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,035 [THEME MUSIC] 2 00:00:09,059 --> 00:00:14,092 Little small town Niles has this brutal, savage murder. 3 00:00:14,092 --> 00:00:18,046 There are kids that grew up locking their doors 4 00:00:18,046 --> 00:00:21,016 and being scared when they went to bed at night just because 5 00:00:21,016 --> 00:00:22,099 of this case. 6 00:00:22,099 --> 00:00:29,023 Roxanne Wood in 1987 was married to Terry Wood. 7 00:00:29,023 --> 00:00:31,066 Roxanne and Terry went to the bowling alley 8 00:00:31,066 --> 00:00:34,087 and arrived in separate cars. 9 00:00:34,087 --> 00:00:37,078 Roxanne left earlier than Terry. 10 00:00:37,078 --> 00:00:39,073 He just wanted to keep with the fun 11 00:00:39,073 --> 00:00:41,086 he was having, and Roxanne wanted 12 00:00:41,086 --> 00:00:45,022 to get home and go to bed. 13 00:00:45,022 --> 00:00:50,047 Terry arrives home and notices Roxanne laying in the kitchen. 14 00:00:50,047 --> 00:00:54,041 He notices a pool of blood on the floor. 15 00:00:54,041 --> 00:00:56,095 She was bleeding profusely from her neck. 16 00:00:56,095 --> 00:00:57,078 City Police. 17 00:00:57,078 --> 00:00:59,020 Oh my God. 18 00:00:59,020 --> 00:01:01,048 My wife has been murdered. 19 00:01:01,048 --> 00:01:04,025 My wife has been murdered. 20 00:01:04,025 --> 00:01:05,095 I answered the phone, and I could 21 00:01:05,095 --> 00:01:08,087 tell something was bad wrong. 22 00:01:08,087 --> 00:01:11,078 He just broke down. 23 00:01:11,078 --> 00:01:16,072 He just said, someone murdered your sister. 24 00:01:16,072 --> 00:01:19,043 Rock being the rock of the family, 25 00:01:19,043 --> 00:01:22,016 she didn't have an enemy out there. 26 00:01:22,016 --> 00:01:26,054 Who just randomly breaks in and does this to someone? 27 00:01:26,054 --> 00:01:28,040 She was sexually assaulted. 28 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:31,008 The assailant left his DNA. 29 00:01:31,008 --> 00:01:33,051 But in terms of the essential evidence, 30 00:01:33,051 --> 00:01:36,068 based on what was there, this went cold fairly quickly, 31 00:01:36,068 --> 00:01:37,024 did it not? 32 00:01:37,024 --> 00:01:38,099 Based off on what they had to go on, yeah. 33 00:01:38,099 --> 00:01:42,083 The DNA technology wasn't there to really follow up and go 34 00:01:42,083 --> 00:01:45,068 through on, and there was absolutely not a lot more 35 00:01:45,068 --> 00:01:46,037 to go off. 36 00:01:46,037 --> 00:01:50,012 How frustrating was it that no one had been arrested? 37 00:01:50,012 --> 00:01:52,049 Oh, beyond frustrating. 38 00:01:55,047 --> 00:01:57,058 I was starting to lose hope. 39 00:02:02,094 --> 00:02:05,094 Dr. Ashlyn Kuersten and I had been 40 00:02:05,094 --> 00:02:09,057 talking about involving the students at Western 41 00:02:09,057 --> 00:02:11,043 in a cold case project. 42 00:02:11,043 --> 00:02:13,068 When we first got the file, it was just 43 00:02:13,068 --> 00:02:17,034 an amazing amount of data. 44 00:02:17,034 --> 00:02:19,086 It just looked overwhelming. 45 00:02:19,086 --> 00:02:21,079 Some of the documents are older than I am. 46 00:02:21,079 --> 00:02:23,025 Then, we would have to sort through 47 00:02:23,025 --> 00:02:27,030 if it was relevant information or not, hours upon hours 48 00:02:27,030 --> 00:02:28,083 to scan all this stuff. 49 00:02:28,083 --> 00:02:31,080 They were able to organize that report where 50 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:35,010 we were able to put a keyword in and search 51 00:02:35,010 --> 00:02:38,055 across that entire document, 3,500 pages. 52 00:02:38,055 --> 00:02:39,075 How important was that? 53 00:02:39,075 --> 00:02:40,093 Hugely important. 54 00:02:40,093 --> 00:02:43,098 I was hopeful that we would be able to solve the case 55 00:02:43,098 --> 00:02:46,059 or move the case forward or that someone who 56 00:02:46,059 --> 00:02:49,041 came after us would. 57 00:02:49,041 --> 00:02:53,001 The first thing that I did was I requested access 58 00:02:53,001 --> 00:02:54,006 to the case file. 59 00:02:54,006 --> 00:02:59,097 It was very easy to read through quite quickly due to the work 60 00:02:59,097 --> 00:03:01,038 of the students. 61 00:03:01,038 --> 00:03:05,001 Gabriella Vargas is a genetic genealogist, 62 00:03:05,001 --> 00:03:08,040 probably one of the best in the country, if not the world. 63 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:16,050 But I'm also a pink-haired, tattooed mom from California 64 00:03:16,050 --> 00:03:21,085 who enjoys woodworking and gardening. 65 00:03:21,085 --> 00:03:24,055 Describe the size of the DNA material 66 00:03:24,055 --> 00:03:25,063 that you had to work with. 67 00:03:25,063 --> 00:03:32,011 It was 28 picograms, so small that you could never 68 00:03:32,011 --> 00:03:34,003 see it with the naked eye. 69 00:03:34,003 --> 00:03:36,019 Just a speck of a speck of a speck, 70 00:03:36,019 --> 00:03:37,048 about the size of a human cell. 71 00:03:37,048 --> 00:03:40,018 Very, very, very small amount of DNA. 72 00:03:40,018 --> 00:03:46,016 It was deemed unsolvable prior to my involvement. 73 00:03:46,016 --> 00:03:49,091 Roxanne Wood's family was my motivation 74 00:03:49,091 --> 00:03:54,055 for working as hard and as fast as I did. 75 00:03:54,055 --> 00:03:58,006 They never gave up hope that, one day, justice 76 00:03:58,006 --> 00:03:59,095 would be served. 77 00:03:59,095 --> 00:04:02,041 They have a Facebook page. 78 00:04:02,041 --> 00:04:05,080 Janet Wood had made a post on the page. 79 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:08,008 One day, Rock, one day. 80 00:04:08,008 --> 00:04:12,002 And I screamed out at the top of my lungs, 81 00:04:12,002 --> 00:04:14,065 no, today's your day, Rock. 82 00:04:14,065 --> 00:04:16,041 Today's your day. 83 00:04:16,041 --> 00:04:18,089 [MUSIC PLAYING] 84 00:04:18,089 --> 00:04:22,036 [THEME MUSIC] 85 00:05:09,071 --> 00:05:15,063 Brad Woods remembers February 20, 1987 like it was yesterday. 86 00:05:15,063 --> 00:05:18,053 He was just 14 years old. 87 00:05:18,053 --> 00:05:20,090 I was getting ready for school, and I 88 00:05:20,090 --> 00:05:23,090 can remember my mom pounding on the bathroom door, 89 00:05:23,090 --> 00:05:24,098 saying to hurry up. 90 00:05:24,098 --> 00:05:26,021 She needed to talk to me. 91 00:05:26,021 --> 00:05:29,087 Hours earlier, Brad's 30-year-old sister Roxanne, 92 00:05:29,087 --> 00:05:34,025 known as Rock, had been nearby in her Niles, Michigan home 93 00:05:34,025 --> 00:05:39,077 alone when she was viciously attacked, her throat slashed. 94 00:05:39,077 --> 00:05:43,076 When I came out, she had told me that she had gotten a call 95 00:05:43,076 --> 00:05:46,025 that Rock had been killed. 96 00:05:46,025 --> 00:05:49,064 Devastated, Roxanne's family couldn't imagine why 97 00:05:49,064 --> 00:05:52,034 anyone would want to harm her. 98 00:05:52,034 --> 00:05:56,078 She always made people think you were her best friend. 99 00:05:56,078 --> 00:05:59,025 She just loved everyone. 100 00:05:59,025 --> 00:06:02,096 High school graduation, gorgeous hair. 101 00:06:02,096 --> 00:06:04,076 Definitely had the hair. 102 00:06:04,076 --> 00:06:06,083 She was tall, statuesque. 103 00:06:06,083 --> 00:06:08,069 She dressed to the nines. 104 00:06:08,069 --> 00:06:10,047 That was very important to her. 105 00:06:10,047 --> 00:06:11,090 She was very classy. 106 00:06:11,090 --> 00:06:16,004 Janet Wood could not help but admire her older sister. 107 00:06:16,004 --> 00:06:18,029 Their parents were divorced, and Roxanne 108 00:06:18,029 --> 00:06:21,086 had taken on a maternal role with her siblings. 109 00:06:21,086 --> 00:06:24,015 With divorced parents, a lot of times, 110 00:06:24,015 --> 00:06:25,061 you feel like you're being shuffled 111 00:06:25,061 --> 00:06:27,053 between house to house. 112 00:06:27,053 --> 00:06:32,015 And the one thing that was always stable for me was Rock. 113 00:06:32,015 --> 00:06:33,091 She was being mom to you. 114 00:06:33,091 --> 00:06:37,043 Yup, Rock, she was always there. 115 00:06:37,043 --> 00:06:38,033 She was your Rock. 116 00:06:38,033 --> 00:06:38,099 She was. 117 00:06:38,099 --> 00:06:40,046 She was. 118 00:06:40,046 --> 00:06:43,004 Roxanne's last name would eventually 119 00:06:43,004 --> 00:06:45,044 change from Woods to Wood-- 120 00:06:45,044 --> 00:06:47,039 And Rock's Terry and Rock. 121 00:06:47,039 --> 00:06:51,062 --after meeting future husband, Terry Wood, shortly after she 122 00:06:51,062 --> 00:06:53,082 graduated from high school. 123 00:06:53,082 --> 00:06:56,021 She was working at his father's company. 124 00:06:56,021 --> 00:06:58,055 Terry was still in high school on the wrestling team. 125 00:06:58,055 --> 00:07:03,041 And in he walks, and he's in his wrestling shorts and whatever. 126 00:07:03,041 --> 00:07:08,000 She said that was the nicest looking legs she ever saw. 127 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,009 And she was just smitten by him right away. 128 00:07:11,009 --> 00:07:14,036 Roxanne and Terry married in 1982. 129 00:07:14,036 --> 00:07:16,079 She said it was the happiest day of her life. 130 00:07:16,079 --> 00:07:20,009 Six years later, Janet would change her name 131 00:07:20,009 --> 00:07:22,091 from Woods to Wood as well when she 132 00:07:22,091 --> 00:07:25,086 married Terry's brother, Rob. 133 00:07:25,086 --> 00:07:29,064 Both brothers wound up working for the family business. 134 00:07:29,064 --> 00:07:33,093 For Roxanne and Terry, it proved to be a bit too much 135 00:07:33,093 --> 00:07:35,014 togetherness. 136 00:07:35,014 --> 00:07:37,098 They got dressed in the morning together, 137 00:07:37,098 --> 00:07:39,060 and they rode to work together. 138 00:07:39,060 --> 00:07:41,034 And they came home for lunch together, 139 00:07:41,034 --> 00:07:43,008 and then they went back to work together. 140 00:07:43,008 --> 00:07:48,025 Roxanne's solution, taking a job in nearby South Bend, Indiana. 141 00:07:48,025 --> 00:07:51,075 A little time apart seemed to help the marriage. 142 00:07:51,075 --> 00:07:55,089 Very, very content, happy, looking forward 143 00:07:55,089 --> 00:07:57,099 to starting a family. 144 00:07:57,099 --> 00:08:03,015 February 19, 1987 started out as a typical Thursday 145 00:08:03,015 --> 00:08:04,077 evening for the couple. 146 00:08:04,077 --> 00:08:07,089 They met for dinner at a restaurant in downtown Niles 147 00:08:07,089 --> 00:08:11,019 after work and then went to a local bowling alley, 148 00:08:11,019 --> 00:08:13,086 arriving in separate cars. 149 00:08:13,086 --> 00:08:18,003 From the report, you could tell when Roxanne 150 00:08:18,003 --> 00:08:19,053 entered that bowling alley. 151 00:08:19,053 --> 00:08:20,091 All eyes were on her. 152 00:08:20,091 --> 00:08:24,089 Michigan State Police Detective Sergeant John Moore. 153 00:08:24,089 --> 00:08:26,031 There wasn't a whole lot of ladies 154 00:08:26,031 --> 00:08:28,044 there because this was the men's bowling league, 155 00:08:28,044 --> 00:08:30,081 so she drew some attention. 156 00:08:30,081 --> 00:08:34,080 As midnight approached, Roxanne was ready to call it a night, 157 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:37,024 but Terry wanted to stay. 158 00:08:37,024 --> 00:08:39,087 There's witnesses where Terry and she said goodnight 159 00:08:39,087 --> 00:08:40,089 to each other-- 160 00:08:40,089 --> 00:08:44,079 hug, kiss, love you, drive safe. 161 00:08:44,079 --> 00:08:48,021 After Roxanne headed home, Terry stayed behind 162 00:08:48,021 --> 00:08:49,068 and bowled another game. 163 00:08:49,068 --> 00:08:53,097 He then headed home and arrived here about 45 minutes 164 00:08:53,097 --> 00:08:55,074 after his wife. 165 00:08:55,074 --> 00:08:57,096 Terry entered the house through the garage. 166 00:08:57,096 --> 00:09:03,009 And once inside, he came upon a horrific sight. 167 00:09:03,009 --> 00:09:04,080 She was laying on the floor. 168 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:07,014 She had her nightgown on. 169 00:09:07,014 --> 00:09:10,033 He said there was a lot of blood. 170 00:09:10,033 --> 00:09:13,095 According to Detective First Lieutenant Chuck Christensen, 171 00:09:13,095 --> 00:09:16,068 Terry said he rushed over to Roxanne. 172 00:09:16,068 --> 00:09:19,026 He got behind her, according to him, 173 00:09:19,026 --> 00:09:22,094 and picked her head up and held her head and see-- 174 00:09:22,094 --> 00:09:24,006 --and see if she was alive? 175 00:09:24,006 --> 00:09:26,007 To see if she was alive, yes. 176 00:09:26,007 --> 00:09:29,049 Finding no signs of life, Terry grabbed the phone 177 00:09:29,049 --> 00:09:31,074 and called the local police station. 178 00:09:31,074 --> 00:09:33,045 She is dead. 179 00:09:33,045 --> 00:09:35,016 She has been cut. 180 00:09:35,016 --> 00:09:37,086 Terry noticed that her panties were down 181 00:09:37,086 --> 00:09:41,055 around her knee/ankle area. 182 00:09:41,055 --> 00:09:44,013 Her nightgown was pulled up. 183 00:09:44,013 --> 00:09:45,033 Now listen to me, OK? 184 00:09:45,033 --> 00:09:48,042 At times, Terry seemed to get belligerent 185 00:09:48,042 --> 00:09:50,035 with the person trying to help him. 186 00:09:50,035 --> 00:09:52,014 I'm going to get some information from you, 187 00:09:52,014 --> 00:09:53,082 and I'm going to get a car started, OK? 188 00:09:53,082 --> 00:09:57,017 No, get 50 [BLEEP] cars started, [BLEEP].. 189 00:09:57,017 --> 00:09:58,060 Now! 190 00:09:58,060 --> 00:09:59,053 They are started. 191 00:09:59,053 --> 00:10:00,067 No, they're not. 192 00:10:00,067 --> 00:10:03,007 Now, [BLEEP] now! 193 00:10:03,007 --> 00:10:06,079 The dispatcher kept Terry on the phone. 194 00:10:06,079 --> 00:10:10,042 Don't scream into the phone because the phone distorts, 195 00:10:10,042 --> 00:10:12,021 and I can't understand you that well, OK? 196 00:10:12,021 --> 00:10:13,096 You mean so you can get a recording on it. 197 00:10:13,096 --> 00:10:17,066 No, I'm trying to get some information from you, OK? 198 00:10:17,066 --> 00:10:18,085 Yeah, right. 199 00:10:18,085 --> 00:10:21,022 Terry's aggressive demeanor on the phone 200 00:10:21,022 --> 00:10:25,039 quickly became a red flag, according to investigators. 201 00:10:25,039 --> 00:10:27,049 Is that suspicious behavior to you? 202 00:10:27,049 --> 00:10:29,032 It's a bit suspicious. 203 00:10:29,032 --> 00:10:33,079 Typically, they're in shock, distraught, but not 204 00:10:33,079 --> 00:10:38,008 normally do you hear that anger component in there to the level 205 00:10:38,008 --> 00:10:39,031 that it is in this one. 206 00:10:39,031 --> 00:10:43,030 Detective Sergeant Jason Bailey says a seed of suspicion 207 00:10:43,030 --> 00:10:47,044 grew even more once police arrived at the home. 208 00:10:47,044 --> 00:10:48,091 He definitely had fits of rage. 209 00:10:48,091 --> 00:10:50,054 I know, at one point, he was screaming. 210 00:10:50,054 --> 00:10:52,042 He wanted a supervisor, a sergeant there. 211 00:10:52,042 --> 00:10:56,014 Is he making himself a suspect by this kind of behavior? 212 00:10:56,014 --> 00:10:57,092 Everybody reacts differently. 213 00:10:57,092 --> 00:11:01,042 But based on this abnormal reaction, 214 00:11:01,042 --> 00:11:04,081 I believe he was making himself a suspect. 215 00:11:04,081 --> 00:11:07,099 First responders eventually had no choice 216 00:11:07,099 --> 00:11:10,066 but to subdue Terry by placing him 217 00:11:10,066 --> 00:11:12,073 in the back of a patrol car. 218 00:11:12,073 --> 00:11:15,025 And when they drove him down to the police post 219 00:11:15,025 --> 00:11:18,022 for routine questioning, Terry quickly 220 00:11:18,022 --> 00:11:21,070 asked for an attorney, which set off more alarm 221 00:11:21,070 --> 00:11:24,013 bells for investigators. 222 00:11:24,013 --> 00:11:28,085 The detective at that time told him within 5 to 10 minutes, 223 00:11:28,085 --> 00:11:31,075 you did this, and I will not rest 224 00:11:31,075 --> 00:11:34,048 until I put you away forever. 225 00:11:34,048 --> 00:11:36,016 An investigator said that to Terry. 226 00:11:36,016 --> 00:11:37,033 I believe you're the killer. 227 00:11:37,033 --> 00:11:39,061 I believe you're the killer, and I will not 228 00:11:39,061 --> 00:11:41,013 rest until you're behind bars. 229 00:11:41,013 --> 00:11:44,036 [MUSIC PLAYING] 230 00:11:56,064 --> 00:11:59,013 As investigators began piecing together 231 00:11:59,013 --> 00:12:02,025 clues in Roxanne Wood's rape and murder, 232 00:12:02,025 --> 00:12:06,006 the emerging picture offered up just one suspect, 233 00:12:06,006 --> 00:12:08,013 her husband Terry. 234 00:12:08,013 --> 00:12:10,065 There was no sign of any forced entry. 235 00:12:10,065 --> 00:12:12,045 Did that raise eyebrows? 236 00:12:12,045 --> 00:12:15,067 Absolutely. 237 00:12:15,067 --> 00:12:17,065 But Terry told police they'd been having 238 00:12:17,065 --> 00:12:20,017 problems with the lock on the back door, 239 00:12:20,017 --> 00:12:22,000 claiming it didn't work. 240 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:27,024 Investigators, however, remain suspicious. 241 00:12:27,024 --> 00:12:30,003 We have a sheath up here of a fillet knife 242 00:12:30,003 --> 00:12:31,098 located near the body. 243 00:12:31,098 --> 00:12:34,089 That filet knife, presumed to be the murder weapon, 244 00:12:34,089 --> 00:12:37,050 had been taken from a kitchen drawer. 245 00:12:37,050 --> 00:12:40,014 It was never found. 246 00:12:40,014 --> 00:12:44,094 That would be odd that a killer would come to a house 247 00:12:44,094 --> 00:12:46,038 without a weapon. 248 00:12:46,038 --> 00:12:50,019 Terry told police that he'd slipped in Roxanne's blood 249 00:12:50,019 --> 00:12:52,086 as he lifted her head to check on her, 250 00:12:52,086 --> 00:12:55,041 but there were no blood smears indicating 251 00:12:55,041 --> 00:12:56,060 he'd actually done that. 252 00:12:59,019 --> 00:13:02,046 Investigators thought they discovered a potential motive 253 00:13:02,046 --> 00:13:06,046 when they looked into Roxanne and Terry's past. 254 00:13:06,046 --> 00:13:11,031 We did uncover a extramarital affair by both parties. 255 00:13:11,031 --> 00:13:13,024 By both parties? 256 00:13:13,024 --> 00:13:15,078 And so when you have a murder like this 257 00:13:15,078 --> 00:13:18,081 and you learn there was some infidelity, are you wondering, 258 00:13:18,081 --> 00:13:20,085 could jealousy have been a motive? 259 00:13:20,085 --> 00:13:23,006 Absolutely. 260 00:13:23,006 --> 00:13:25,052 I remember the detective saying, it was rage. 261 00:13:25,052 --> 00:13:28,064 It's only someone close to her would have this kind of rage. 262 00:13:28,064 --> 00:13:30,017 I never bought that. 263 00:13:30,017 --> 00:13:34,016 Janet firmly believed in Terry's innocence. 264 00:13:34,016 --> 00:13:35,085 I just knew him too well. 265 00:13:35,085 --> 00:13:38,099 So that just didn't fit with what I knew. 266 00:13:38,099 --> 00:13:41,054 Terry wasn't a rageful guy. 267 00:13:41,054 --> 00:13:44,051 He may have a sharp tongue occasionally 268 00:13:44,051 --> 00:13:47,048 but never a violent person. 269 00:13:47,048 --> 00:13:50,000 Despite strongly suspecting Terry, 270 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,085 investigators didn't believe there was enough evidence 271 00:13:52,085 --> 00:13:54,014 to charge him. 272 00:13:54,014 --> 00:13:56,039 After just a few months, the case 273 00:13:56,039 --> 00:14:01,016 went cold, leaving a cloud of suspicion hanging over Terry. 274 00:14:01,016 --> 00:14:05,012 He declined our request for an interview. 275 00:14:05,012 --> 00:14:08,006 I had heard stories that, at times, he'd walk into a place, 276 00:14:08,006 --> 00:14:11,035 and somebody would call him Slash. 277 00:14:11,035 --> 00:14:14,009 DNA was left at the crime scene. 278 00:14:14,009 --> 00:14:15,071 A sample was preserved. 279 00:14:15,071 --> 00:14:19,085 But given the limitations on technology back in 1987, 280 00:14:19,085 --> 00:14:21,074 not much could be done with it. 281 00:14:21,074 --> 00:14:26,051 Still, Roxanne's family never gave up. 282 00:14:26,051 --> 00:14:30,017 I didn't lose hope ever. 283 00:14:30,017 --> 00:14:32,050 I mean, this guy just didn't do this and then 284 00:14:32,050 --> 00:14:35,068 lead a clean, pristine life the rest of his life. 285 00:14:35,068 --> 00:14:39,088 DNA technology evolved, eventually allowing the sample 286 00:14:39,088 --> 00:14:44,077 to be uploaded to the criminal database CODIS in 1999. 287 00:14:44,077 --> 00:14:46,099 But no match was returned. 288 00:14:46,099 --> 00:14:50,008 As disappointing as that was, everyone 289 00:14:50,008 --> 00:14:53,056 was hopeful that the DNA would at least clear Terry 290 00:14:53,056 --> 00:14:55,093 when it was tested against his. 291 00:14:55,093 --> 00:14:59,080 The result, it wasn't Terry's DNA. 292 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:03,013 So did that eliminate Terry as a person of interest, 293 00:15:03,013 --> 00:15:04,078 as a suspect in this case? 294 00:15:04,078 --> 00:15:05,053 No. 295 00:15:05,053 --> 00:15:06,007 Why not? 296 00:15:06,007 --> 00:15:07,042 It's not his semen. 297 00:15:07,042 --> 00:15:10,090 Just because you find semen in somebody 298 00:15:10,090 --> 00:15:14,026 doesn't necessarily mean that person 299 00:15:14,026 --> 00:15:17,050 is the one that killed them. 300 00:15:17,050 --> 00:15:23,001 After that, the case offered no new leads, until 2020. 301 00:15:23,001 --> 00:15:27,000 After more than three decades of compiling thousands of reports, 302 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,076 police were drowning in paperwork. 303 00:15:29,076 --> 00:15:33,003 That's when a professor and an innovative group of students 304 00:15:33,003 --> 00:15:35,031 here at Western Michigan University 305 00:15:35,031 --> 00:15:38,097 figured out a way to speed up the investigation. 306 00:15:38,097 --> 00:15:41,072 The real world experience, I think, is priceless. 307 00:15:41,072 --> 00:15:43,008 You see that marine-- 308 00:15:43,008 --> 00:15:46,035 Dr. Ashlyn Kuersten teaches a criminal justice studies 309 00:15:46,035 --> 00:15:47,058 program. 310 00:15:47,058 --> 00:15:50,082 For years, she's been talking to detective Christensen 311 00:15:50,082 --> 00:15:54,086 about how her students might help on a cold case. 312 00:15:54,086 --> 00:15:57,036 What a great partnership that would be if we could ever make 313 00:15:57,036 --> 00:15:59,002 something like that happen. 314 00:15:59,002 --> 00:16:02,079 So the professor and the detective came up with a plan. 315 00:16:02,079 --> 00:16:08,019 Dr. Kuersten's students would process around 3,500 pages 316 00:16:08,019 --> 00:16:12,066 of documents, accumulated since the day Roxanne was murdered, 317 00:16:12,066 --> 00:16:16,011 into a single, digitized database. 318 00:16:16,011 --> 00:16:19,032 Samantha Rodgers was one of several students 319 00:16:19,032 --> 00:16:20,089 who worked on the case. 320 00:16:20,089 --> 00:16:23,055 The officers, they're able to search by name 321 00:16:23,055 --> 00:16:25,038 and see if they've already been interviewed, 322 00:16:25,038 --> 00:16:27,048 if they needed a follow up. 323 00:16:27,048 --> 00:16:29,007 They can search locations, things 324 00:16:29,007 --> 00:16:31,095 that they want to be able to do just flipping through thousands 325 00:16:31,095 --> 00:16:32,091 of pages. 326 00:16:32,091 --> 00:16:36,042 McKenzie Stommen says the decades-old files 327 00:16:36,042 --> 00:16:40,038 were a solemn reminder of how long some victims wait 328 00:16:40,038 --> 00:16:41,064 for justice. 329 00:16:41,064 --> 00:16:43,089 It gave a sense of gravity to what 330 00:16:43,089 --> 00:16:47,085 we were doing, that these cases have gone unsolved for that 331 00:16:47,085 --> 00:16:49,062 long. 332 00:16:49,062 --> 00:16:52,098 Around the same time, the students began crunching data, 333 00:16:52,098 --> 00:16:59,010 Christensen decided it was time for a Hail Mary pass. 334 00:16:59,010 --> 00:17:02,001 Colleen Fitzpatrick is the president and founder 335 00:17:02,001 --> 00:17:06,072 of Identifinders International, a company that specializes 336 00:17:06,072 --> 00:17:09,016 in genetic genealogy. 337 00:17:09,016 --> 00:17:12,078 It's been used in forensic cases to help identify 338 00:17:12,078 --> 00:17:18,000 unidentified remains and violent offenders for violent crimes. 339 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,073 Christensen hired her genealogy company 340 00:17:20,073 --> 00:17:25,096 to examine the tiny amount of DNA left from Roxanne's case. 341 00:17:25,096 --> 00:17:28,008 We found out there was, what I would call, 342 00:17:28,008 --> 00:17:32,010 a gnat's eyebrow of DNA left, about 3% 343 00:17:32,010 --> 00:17:33,066 of what we normally use. 344 00:17:33,066 --> 00:17:35,055 That was the lowest amount of DNA 345 00:17:35,055 --> 00:17:39,081 we've ever had to work with to solve a case. 346 00:17:39,081 --> 00:17:42,054 Identifinders spent about 10 months 347 00:17:42,054 --> 00:17:46,098 working with the data the sample produced but came up empty. 348 00:17:46,098 --> 00:17:48,097 It really did feel impossible. 349 00:17:48,097 --> 00:17:50,037 It really did. 350 00:17:50,037 --> 00:17:54,015 Then, one day, in April 2021, Colleen 351 00:17:54,015 --> 00:17:56,073 happened to be chatting with investigative genetic 352 00:17:56,073 --> 00:18:01,014 genealogist Gabriella Vargas, who worked as a consultant 353 00:18:01,014 --> 00:18:03,009 for Identifinders. 354 00:18:03,009 --> 00:18:06,042 And I said, well, why don't you let me look at it? 355 00:18:06,042 --> 00:18:11,095 I concluded that I did not stand with the others. 356 00:18:11,095 --> 00:18:17,004 I believed that this case was extremely solvable, 357 00:18:17,004 --> 00:18:20,005 and I believed that I could solve it. 358 00:18:20,005 --> 00:18:21,096 So Gabriella got to work. 359 00:18:21,096 --> 00:18:26,028 Incredibly, she was able to generate a genetic profile 360 00:18:26,028 --> 00:18:28,056 from the killer's trace DNA. 361 00:18:28,056 --> 00:18:33,046 It tells me where their ancestral origins come from. 362 00:18:33,046 --> 00:18:34,086 Are they Eastern European? 363 00:18:34,086 --> 00:18:35,094 Are they Mediterranean? 364 00:18:35,094 --> 00:18:37,041 Are they African American? 365 00:18:37,041 --> 00:18:39,054 And what was the race of this person? 366 00:18:39,054 --> 00:18:40,071 Caucasian. 367 00:18:40,071 --> 00:18:44,040 Gabriella then turned to an online DNA service. 368 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:49,095 When consumers use DNA sites like 23andMe and ancestry.com, 369 00:18:49,095 --> 00:18:52,056 they can take their results and upload them 370 00:18:52,056 --> 00:18:57,039 to a broader database called GEDmatch in the hope of finding 371 00:18:57,039 --> 00:18:58,077 more relatives. 372 00:18:58,077 --> 00:19:02,043 They can choose to opt in to law enforcement matching. 373 00:19:02,043 --> 00:19:08,094 If they do that, I can see if they are a match to my suspect. 374 00:19:08,094 --> 00:19:11,049 Gabriella was able to use GEDmatch 375 00:19:11,049 --> 00:19:13,098 and the genetic profile she developed 376 00:19:13,098 --> 00:19:18,090 to start to build the family tree of Roxanne's killer. 377 00:19:18,090 --> 00:19:20,082 How far back did you go in time? 378 00:19:20,082 --> 00:19:25,017 One side of the tree, the ancestor was 1823. 379 00:19:25,017 --> 00:19:30,000 On the other side, the top ancestor was 1797. 380 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:33,036 Essentially, what we're looking for amongst these matches 381 00:19:33,036 --> 00:19:36,015 are where they connect to each other, 382 00:19:36,015 --> 00:19:39,027 and it led me to a union couple. 383 00:19:39,027 --> 00:19:44,040 A union couple is where two sides of the family tree meet. 384 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:48,018 This couple was born around 1920. 385 00:19:48,018 --> 00:19:51,045 Based on that, we can presume that they would have 386 00:19:51,045 --> 00:19:55,041 kids around 1940, maybe 1950. 387 00:19:55,041 --> 00:19:58,072 It would have to be one of their children. 388 00:19:58,072 --> 00:20:01,071 The couple she found had three sons. 389 00:20:01,071 --> 00:20:03,063 She let the detectives know. 390 00:20:03,063 --> 00:20:06,084 They did background checks and eliminated two of the three 391 00:20:06,084 --> 00:20:09,036 brothers as possibilities. 392 00:20:09,036 --> 00:20:12,066 They were down to the last brother. 393 00:20:12,066 --> 00:20:15,033 He's been involved in a lot of different things. 394 00:20:15,033 --> 00:20:16,014 Violent things? 395 00:20:16,014 --> 00:20:18,042 Violent things, sexual deviant things. 396 00:20:18,042 --> 00:20:20,071 You name it, he's probably been involved in it. 397 00:20:20,071 --> 00:20:22,098 And you connect the DNA with someone 398 00:20:22,098 --> 00:20:25,026 who has a history of violent behavior? 399 00:20:25,026 --> 00:20:27,010 You got yourself a suspect? 400 00:20:27,010 --> 00:20:27,060 Yup. 401 00:20:27,060 --> 00:20:30,048 Absolutely. 402 00:20:30,048 --> 00:20:32,091 How do you feel about sharing your DNA search 403 00:20:32,091 --> 00:20:34,059 results with law enforcement? 404 00:20:34,059 --> 00:20:36,099 Chat now with Peter Van Sant on Twitter. 405 00:20:40,026 --> 00:20:43,073 [MUSIC PLAYING] 406 00:20:48,068 --> 00:20:51,095 After 34 years and one last chance 407 00:20:51,095 --> 00:20:56,033 at solving this case with a speck of DNA too small 408 00:20:56,033 --> 00:21:00,014 to see with the human eye, detective Chuck Christensen's 409 00:21:00,014 --> 00:21:02,063 daring bet paid off big. 410 00:21:02,063 --> 00:21:09,029 And to know that we had come to this point was simply amazing. 411 00:21:09,029 --> 00:21:11,060 Michigan State Police now believed 412 00:21:11,060 --> 00:21:15,083 they had finally tracked down Roxanne Wood's killer. 413 00:21:15,083 --> 00:21:21,032 We were confident now we were going to solve this and make 414 00:21:21,032 --> 00:21:22,016 an arrest. 415 00:21:22,016 --> 00:21:27,014 You could now pinpoint who that individual was that had 416 00:21:27,014 --> 00:21:29,015 committed these awful crimes. 417 00:21:29,015 --> 00:21:30,092 And who is that person? 418 00:21:30,092 --> 00:21:34,029 That individual is Patrick Gilham. 419 00:21:34,029 --> 00:21:37,056 Patrick Gilham, a man who is living just 420 00:21:37,056 --> 00:21:41,055 a few miles from where he allegedly raped and murdered 421 00:21:41,055 --> 00:21:44,071 Roxanne Wood. 422 00:21:44,071 --> 00:21:48,049 And it turns out he had a troubled past. 423 00:21:48,049 --> 00:21:50,059 Had been a drinker. 424 00:21:50,059 --> 00:21:52,012 Is he into drugs? 425 00:21:52,012 --> 00:21:55,012 He's into drugs, just an individual that 426 00:21:55,012 --> 00:21:59,092 was lost in life and a bad individual, 427 00:21:59,092 --> 00:22:02,076 based on his background. 428 00:22:02,076 --> 00:22:06,007 When detectives dug into Gilham's criminal history, 429 00:22:06,007 --> 00:22:09,051 they found a connection to another disturbing case 430 00:22:09,051 --> 00:22:13,014 eight years before Roxanne's attack. 431 00:22:13,014 --> 00:22:19,095 My wife, Maureen, was attacked by Patrick Gilham in 1979. 432 00:22:19,095 --> 00:22:23,043 Robert and Maureen Farag and their two young daughters 433 00:22:23,043 --> 00:22:28,098 lived in Gary, Indiana, back in September of 1979. 434 00:22:28,098 --> 00:22:34,026 We were just kind of blossoming into adulthood with the kids, 435 00:22:34,026 --> 00:22:37,041 with our lifestyle, with our jobs. 436 00:22:37,041 --> 00:22:40,038 Robert was economic director for the city, 437 00:22:40,038 --> 00:22:44,058 and Maureen was an art teacher at the local middle school. 438 00:22:44,058 --> 00:22:48,036 What is it about Maureen that you fell in love with? 439 00:22:48,036 --> 00:22:49,038 Wow. 440 00:22:49,038 --> 00:22:51,018 I can't say one thing only. 441 00:22:51,018 --> 00:22:54,027 She was very attractive, which just caught my eye. 442 00:22:54,027 --> 00:22:56,097 She was so nice. 443 00:22:56,097 --> 00:23:01,047 People gravitated to her because of her warm personality. 444 00:23:01,047 --> 00:23:04,092 One night, while making his way home from a business trip, 445 00:23:04,092 --> 00:23:07,093 Robert called Maureen with a favor. 446 00:23:07,093 --> 00:23:11,091 I said, Maureen, I don't have my keys to the house. 447 00:23:11,091 --> 00:23:14,067 So could you leave the side door open? 448 00:23:14,067 --> 00:23:19,005 At around 11:00 at night, Robert turned onto his street. 449 00:23:19,005 --> 00:23:22,017 He'll never forget what he saw. 450 00:23:22,017 --> 00:23:25,023 When I pull up, I see the police cars. 451 00:23:25,023 --> 00:23:28,062 Robert quickly found Maureen, who calmly told him 452 00:23:28,062 --> 00:23:32,007 she was in bed when she was startled awake by a noise 453 00:23:32,007 --> 00:23:33,054 downstairs. 454 00:23:33,054 --> 00:23:36,015 Maureen sees this guy going through her purse. 455 00:23:36,015 --> 00:23:40,051 He got scared, whatever, and chased her. 456 00:23:40,051 --> 00:23:42,085 Maureen started going upstairs, and he 457 00:23:42,085 --> 00:23:46,060 grabbed her at the bottom of the stairs and got on top of her. 458 00:23:46,060 --> 00:23:50,062 And he tried his best to molest her. 459 00:23:50,062 --> 00:23:52,075 He wasn't successful. 460 00:23:52,075 --> 00:23:58,061 Maureen told Robert the man then took her purse and fled. 461 00:23:58,061 --> 00:24:02,067 Throughout the attack, Maureen had stayed quiet. 462 00:24:02,067 --> 00:24:07,038 She didn't want to awaken her two girls. 463 00:24:07,038 --> 00:24:09,093 That takes an incredible amount of courage. 464 00:24:09,093 --> 00:24:13,098 She was willing to sacrifice herself there, if need be, 465 00:24:13,098 --> 00:24:16,080 to protect her one- and three-year-old daughters. 466 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,099 Maureen had a lot more than courage. 467 00:24:18,099 --> 00:24:20,097 She had strength. 468 00:24:20,097 --> 00:24:24,003 About a week later, Gilham was pulled over in Gary 469 00:24:24,003 --> 00:24:26,022 for a traffic violation. 470 00:24:26,022 --> 00:24:30,066 A police officer noticed credit cards on the seat next to him. 471 00:24:30,066 --> 00:24:33,040 They were Maureen's. 472 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,071 Police officer called me and said, we picked the guy up. 473 00:24:36,071 --> 00:24:38,038 We're bringing him into the station. 474 00:24:38,038 --> 00:24:40,033 When he was interviewed by police, 475 00:24:40,033 --> 00:24:42,088 he said, all I remember is going into the house, 476 00:24:42,088 --> 00:24:49,057 and I blacked out and woke up with my pants around my ankles. 477 00:24:49,057 --> 00:24:51,094 Patrick Gilham was charged with burglary 478 00:24:51,094 --> 00:24:54,082 and unlawful deviant conduct. 479 00:24:54,082 --> 00:24:57,010 He pleaded guilty and was sentenced 480 00:24:57,010 --> 00:25:01,024 to 14 years in Indiana State Prison. 481 00:25:01,024 --> 00:25:03,056 How did you go on with life from that point? 482 00:25:03,056 --> 00:25:04,052 We forgot about it. 483 00:25:04,052 --> 00:25:05,092 We changed our house. 484 00:25:05,092 --> 00:25:08,038 We changed our neighborhood. 485 00:25:08,038 --> 00:25:11,053 She never told anybody because she 486 00:25:11,053 --> 00:25:14,032 felt that was a private issue. 487 00:25:14,032 --> 00:25:19,048 Patrick Gilham served just seven years of his 14-year sentence. 488 00:25:19,048 --> 00:25:22,003 About four months after his release, 489 00:25:22,003 --> 00:25:25,045 police believe Gilham assaulted Roxanne Wood. 490 00:25:28,026 --> 00:25:31,026 Criminals learn as they go, and I 491 00:25:31,026 --> 00:25:33,099 believe he learned from that first crime he 492 00:25:33,099 --> 00:25:36,093 did that, "I better not leave this witness alive 493 00:25:36,093 --> 00:25:40,035 because I will be in prison for a long, long time." 494 00:25:40,035 --> 00:25:45,021 Maureen died in 2018 from cancer not knowing anything 495 00:25:45,021 --> 00:25:47,034 about the Roxanne Wood case. 496 00:25:47,034 --> 00:25:50,019 Now, armed with their DNA evidence, 497 00:25:50,019 --> 00:25:55,047 investigators were ready to move in on Patrick Gilham. 498 00:25:55,047 --> 00:25:59,034 At this point, we decide to get a surreptitious sample 499 00:25:59,034 --> 00:26:02,031 to compare to the profile that we 500 00:26:02,031 --> 00:26:04,062 had from Roxanne Wood from the scene, 501 00:26:04,062 --> 00:26:08,064 and we do this through our undercover surveillance team. 502 00:26:12,010 --> 00:26:15,078 I'm Ryan Codde, and I am a trooper with the Michigan State 503 00:26:15,078 --> 00:26:16,080 Police. 504 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:19,005 And you do some undercover work from time to time? 505 00:26:19,005 --> 00:26:19,069 I do. 506 00:26:19,069 --> 00:26:21,063 I'm assigned with the fugitive recovery 507 00:26:21,063 --> 00:26:24,018 team for the 5th District. 508 00:26:24,018 --> 00:26:28,032 In May 2021, Codde and his team surveilled Gilham 509 00:26:28,032 --> 00:26:31,071 in South Bend for days on end and picked up 510 00:26:31,071 --> 00:26:36,009 a crucial clue that would aid them in collecting his DNA. 511 00:26:36,009 --> 00:26:38,025 We noticed that he was a smoker. 512 00:26:38,025 --> 00:26:39,045 And why does that help you? 513 00:26:39,045 --> 00:26:42,096 Just in the simple fact that when you're smoking, 514 00:26:42,096 --> 00:26:45,018 it's a great source of DNA. 515 00:26:45,018 --> 00:26:48,000 You have your lips directly on the butt of the cigarette, 516 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,057 and your saliva gets in the cigarette. 517 00:26:51,057 --> 00:26:55,002 Hot on Gilham's tail, the team witnessed their target 518 00:26:55,002 --> 00:27:00,009 flick a cigarette butt outside his truck window while driving. 519 00:27:00,009 --> 00:27:00,081 And so, oh, boy. 520 00:27:00,081 --> 00:27:01,089 You're rubbing your hands. 521 00:27:01,089 --> 00:27:03,081 You're going, this is going to be 522 00:27:03,081 --> 00:27:06,046 that final piece of the puzzle that you had talked about, 523 00:27:06,046 --> 00:27:06,096 right? 524 00:27:06,096 --> 00:27:07,056 Yes, yes. 525 00:27:07,056 --> 00:27:10,032 But there's a twist. 526 00:27:10,032 --> 00:27:12,069 We sent that up to the lab right away. 527 00:27:12,069 --> 00:27:15,060 A couple of days later, the lab director calls me, and he said, 528 00:27:15,060 --> 00:27:16,050 it's not a match. 529 00:27:16,050 --> 00:27:19,078 [MUSIC PLAYING] 530 00:27:33,022 --> 00:27:34,046 DNA is DNA. 531 00:27:34,046 --> 00:27:36,031 If it's not a match, it's not a match. 532 00:27:36,031 --> 00:27:38,041 Detective Moore says investigators 533 00:27:38,041 --> 00:27:41,065 were shocked when the lab called to say the DNA 534 00:27:41,065 --> 00:27:44,077 sample from Patrick Gilham's cigarette butt 535 00:27:44,077 --> 00:27:47,074 did not match Roxanne's killer. 536 00:27:47,074 --> 00:27:49,012 We were scratching our heads. 537 00:27:49,012 --> 00:27:52,039 I called the trooper that grabbed that cigarette butt, 538 00:27:52,039 --> 00:27:55,087 and I said, is there any way at all that 539 00:27:55,087 --> 00:27:58,087 you lost sight of that when it flipped out of his finger? 540 00:27:58,087 --> 00:28:01,087 And he said, a car drove by right then. 541 00:28:01,087 --> 00:28:06,043 It was possible the cigarette butt tested was not Gilham's. 542 00:28:06,043 --> 00:28:09,016 The only thing logically that we can do 543 00:28:09,016 --> 00:28:10,072 is go back and get another one. 544 00:28:10,072 --> 00:28:14,086 So undercover trooper Ryan Codde headed back to work, 545 00:28:14,086 --> 00:28:17,011 once again tailing Gilham. 546 00:28:17,011 --> 00:28:18,094 He pulled into this laundry mat, which 547 00:28:18,094 --> 00:28:21,001 we saw as a window of opportunity 548 00:28:21,001 --> 00:28:22,093 that he would most likely be coming out 549 00:28:22,093 --> 00:28:24,076 to take a smoke break. 550 00:28:24,076 --> 00:28:27,010 This time, Codde was determined not 551 00:28:27,010 --> 00:28:29,092 to lose sight of Gilham's discarded cigarette 552 00:28:29,092 --> 00:28:31,099 butt for even a moment. 553 00:28:31,099 --> 00:28:34,036 And instead of tailing him in a car, 554 00:28:34,036 --> 00:28:37,027 Codde followed Gilham on foot. 555 00:28:37,027 --> 00:28:38,035 I'm not a smoker. 556 00:28:38,035 --> 00:28:41,065 And there was a gas station right over on the corner 557 00:28:41,065 --> 00:28:42,037 that I saw. 558 00:28:42,037 --> 00:28:44,080 And I was like, well I need to go over and get 559 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,045 a pack of cigarettes and sit on the curb 560 00:28:47,045 --> 00:28:48,064 next to the laundromat. 561 00:28:48,064 --> 00:28:51,070 He came and took a seat probably about six to eight feet away 562 00:28:51,070 --> 00:28:54,007 from me, and we had a smoke together. 563 00:28:54,007 --> 00:28:56,030 So how did you strike up a conversation with him? 564 00:28:56,030 --> 00:28:59,041 I just tried to say hi to him, made some small conversation. 565 00:28:59,041 --> 00:29:00,064 He liked the Red Wings. 566 00:29:00,064 --> 00:29:03,085 It wasn't long before Gilham finished his cigarette 567 00:29:03,085 --> 00:29:05,071 and went back inside. 568 00:29:05,071 --> 00:29:08,059 I saw him throw his cigarette, which 569 00:29:08,059 --> 00:29:10,079 was right in about this area. 570 00:29:10,079 --> 00:29:13,042 So it was a great situation because the cigarette 571 00:29:13,042 --> 00:29:14,081 was by itself. 572 00:29:14,081 --> 00:29:17,077 So I pull out a glove and go over, 573 00:29:17,077 --> 00:29:20,001 and I picked the cigarette up with my hand. 574 00:29:20,001 --> 00:29:21,010 Was it still smoking? 575 00:29:21,010 --> 00:29:22,024 It was still warm. 576 00:29:22,024 --> 00:29:23,017 Yes, it was. 577 00:29:23,017 --> 00:29:25,000 So I wrapped it up inside that glove. 578 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,048 I stuck it in my pocket and headed out. 579 00:29:28,048 --> 00:29:32,026 Investigators held their breath until the results from Gilham's 580 00:29:32,026 --> 00:29:34,042 cigarette butt came back. 581 00:29:34,042 --> 00:29:39,070 It was a perfect match to the DNA left at the 1987 crime 582 00:29:39,070 --> 00:29:40,027 scene. 583 00:29:40,027 --> 00:29:41,042 I was ecstatic. 584 00:29:41,042 --> 00:29:43,051 I was very, very happy. 585 00:29:43,051 --> 00:29:46,012 But investigators were not yet ready to make 586 00:29:46,012 --> 00:29:48,052 an arrest, opting to bring Gilham 587 00:29:48,052 --> 00:29:51,094 in for an interview in July 2021. 588 00:29:51,094 --> 00:29:53,032 You're not in trouble. 589 00:29:53,032 --> 00:29:54,094 You're here voluntarily. 590 00:29:54,094 --> 00:29:57,040 Detective Bailey says they told Gilham 591 00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:00,085 they needed to question him about an old case. 592 00:30:00,085 --> 00:30:02,071 You know anybody by the name of Roxanne? 593 00:30:02,071 --> 00:30:03,097 He explains to us. 594 00:30:03,097 --> 00:30:04,091 I know two Roxannes. 595 00:30:04,091 --> 00:30:07,012 And he says one's a stripper, one's a drug addict. 596 00:30:07,012 --> 00:30:10,038 Gilham was shown a picture of Roxanne Wood. 597 00:30:10,038 --> 00:30:11,050 That girl look familiar? 598 00:30:11,050 --> 00:30:12,057 You ever met her before? 599 00:30:12,057 --> 00:30:13,060 Nope, never met her. 600 00:30:13,060 --> 00:30:16,090 [INAUDIBLE] That's a newer picture. 601 00:30:16,090 --> 00:30:18,025 Here's an older picture. 602 00:30:18,025 --> 00:30:22,094 Then, Gilham was shown a second photo of Roxanne. 603 00:30:22,094 --> 00:30:23,044 Nope. 604 00:30:23,044 --> 00:30:24,009 Never seen her? 605 00:30:24,009 --> 00:30:24,067 Never met her? 606 00:30:24,067 --> 00:30:26,077 Don't know who she is? 607 00:30:26,077 --> 00:30:29,002 And I said, well, we're here to talk to you about her. 608 00:30:29,002 --> 00:30:30,058 This woman's been assaulted. 609 00:30:30,058 --> 00:30:32,096 This is too much for me, man. 610 00:30:32,096 --> 00:30:35,032 You can see his body just tense up and almost 611 00:30:35,032 --> 00:30:37,093 to the point of hyperventilation. 612 00:30:37,093 --> 00:30:42,008 Hands started shaking, threw his hands back in the air. 613 00:30:42,008 --> 00:30:44,083 I've never had a reaction out of somebody like that 614 00:30:44,083 --> 00:30:46,042 in 23 years of doing this. 615 00:30:46,042 --> 00:30:47,080 Does he continue talking? 616 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,014 I got to talk to my lawyer. 617 00:30:49,014 --> 00:30:51,031 At that time, he requested to speak to his attorney. 618 00:30:51,031 --> 00:30:53,056 I got to talk to my lawyer, man. 619 00:30:53,056 --> 00:30:58,057 In February 2022, just days shy of the 35th anniversary 620 00:30:58,057 --> 00:31:01,012 of Roxanne's murder, Patrick Gilham 621 00:31:01,012 --> 00:31:06,008 was arrested at his South Bend, Indiana home. 622 00:31:06,008 --> 00:31:09,095 An answer a family has waited 35 years for. 623 00:31:09,095 --> 00:31:12,080 Roxanne's brother Brad Woods. 624 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,012 It didn't seem real. 625 00:31:15,012 --> 00:31:17,045 It was nothing like I had ever played 626 00:31:17,045 --> 00:31:20,045 in my mind of how I would be when they came to the door 627 00:31:20,045 --> 00:31:21,080 to say, we've got him. 628 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:24,008 Detective Christensen then met face 629 00:31:24,008 --> 00:31:26,057 to face with the man who had lived 630 00:31:26,057 --> 00:31:31,040 for decades with cruel rumors and doubt, Terry Wood. 631 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:35,064 I sat him down, explained he was no longer a person of interest, 632 00:31:35,064 --> 00:31:38,022 and we knew he had nothing to do with it. 633 00:31:38,022 --> 00:31:39,017 How did he react? 634 00:31:39,017 --> 00:31:40,053 He was very emotional. 635 00:31:40,053 --> 00:31:46,040 He started crying, of course, was bewildered and in shock. 636 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:50,012 As a 35-year-old burden was lifted off Terry, 637 00:31:50,012 --> 00:31:53,066 the hammer was about to fall for Gilham. 638 00:31:53,066 --> 00:31:55,055 You're under arrest, OK? 639 00:31:55,055 --> 00:31:59,075 Investigators questioned him for 5 and 1/2 hours at a police 640 00:31:59,075 --> 00:32:02,075 station in South Bend, with Gilham only 641 00:32:02,075 --> 00:32:05,087 asking for an attorney at the very end. 642 00:32:05,087 --> 00:32:09,012 At times, he spoke in circles. 643 00:32:09,012 --> 00:32:10,091 I just can't believe I did it, if I did it. 644 00:32:10,091 --> 00:32:12,035 But you're saying I did. 645 00:32:12,035 --> 00:32:16,067 When pressed on it, he kept saying, you guys are telling me 646 00:32:16,067 --> 00:32:17,088 I did this. 647 00:32:17,088 --> 00:32:20,018 And if I did this, I'm a monster. 648 00:32:20,018 --> 00:32:21,080 I'm a monster, man. 649 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:24,023 If I did that, that's a monster. 650 00:32:24,023 --> 00:32:25,082 That's a monster, man, 651 00:32:25,082 --> 00:32:27,075 Only a monster would do this. 652 00:32:27,075 --> 00:32:28,076 Let me ask you this. 653 00:32:28,076 --> 00:32:32,084 How do you think your DNA was found with her? 654 00:32:32,084 --> 00:32:34,073 I have no clue. 655 00:32:34,073 --> 00:32:36,008 How do you think? 656 00:32:36,008 --> 00:32:38,001 I have no clue, man. 657 00:32:38,001 --> 00:32:40,016 He said that several times during the interview. 658 00:32:40,016 --> 00:32:42,081 When he was confronted with the case facts, he kept saying, 659 00:32:42,081 --> 00:32:43,052 I don't remember. 660 00:32:43,052 --> 00:32:44,090 I don't remember, man. 661 00:32:44,090 --> 00:32:45,040 I told you-- 662 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,054 I don't remember doing that. 663 00:32:47,054 --> 00:32:50,012 But Janet says Gilham's reaction when 664 00:32:50,012 --> 00:32:55,016 he was questioned seven months prior proved he was lying now. 665 00:32:55,016 --> 00:33:02,000 He visibly reacted, shook like a leaf, leaned back in his chair, 666 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:03,059 pounding his chest. 667 00:33:03,059 --> 00:33:04,097 I got to talk to my lawyer. 668 00:33:04,097 --> 00:33:07,016 I think I need a lawyer. 669 00:33:07,016 --> 00:33:10,073 You tell me he doesn't remember what he did. 670 00:33:10,073 --> 00:33:13,067 Gilham was charged with Roxanne's murder. 671 00:33:13,067 --> 00:33:16,028 But had a golden opportunity to apprehend 672 00:33:16,028 --> 00:33:21,011 him decades earlier slipped through investigators' fingers? 673 00:33:21,011 --> 00:33:27,036 I truly believe that I would have been raped and murdered. 674 00:33:27,036 --> 00:33:30,063 See more of the evidence and timeline at 48hours.com. 675 00:33:34,061 --> 00:33:36,060 [MUSIC PLAYING] 676 00:33:36,060 --> 00:33:41,001 In the summer of 1987, just months after Roxanne Wood 677 00:33:41,001 --> 00:33:43,071 was murdered in her home, her alleged killer 678 00:33:43,071 --> 00:33:47,025 crossed paths with yet another woman. 679 00:33:47,025 --> 00:33:50,016 It was a hot night in South Bend, Indiana, 680 00:33:50,016 --> 00:33:54,066 when Rose Caparell went outside to her front lawn. 681 00:33:54,066 --> 00:33:56,091 I was standing down there, watering. 682 00:33:56,091 --> 00:33:58,092 And all of a sudden, I hear this loud car 683 00:33:58,092 --> 00:34:00,012 coming down the street. 684 00:34:00,012 --> 00:34:03,078 Rose, standing alone, says she noticed a blue El 685 00:34:03,078 --> 00:34:06,018 Camino, similar to this one, driven 686 00:34:06,018 --> 00:34:09,012 by a stranger, getting closer, 687 00:34:09,012 --> 00:34:11,078 I looked, and he had a tail light out of the car. 688 00:34:11,078 --> 00:34:13,020 About three or four minutes later, 689 00:34:13,020 --> 00:34:16,059 I hear the same car coming back down the street. 690 00:34:16,059 --> 00:34:18,000 Now, it had a bad muffler, right? 691 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,058 Oh, the muffler was loud. 692 00:34:20,058 --> 00:34:24,064 I just got a feeling that something just wasn't right. 693 00:34:24,064 --> 00:34:27,051 And by the time I got halfway to my front door, 694 00:34:27,051 --> 00:34:30,042 a man came around the corner of the house. 695 00:34:30,042 --> 00:34:34,086 He had a stocking cap on, and he had a full beard. 696 00:34:34,086 --> 00:34:37,059 All you could basically see was his eyes. 697 00:34:37,059 --> 00:34:40,089 I just turned and ran, screaming down the street. 698 00:34:40,089 --> 00:34:43,089 Have you ever run faster in your life than that moment? 699 00:34:43,089 --> 00:34:46,020 And I'm not a runner, and I ran. 700 00:34:46,020 --> 00:34:48,060 Rose says she ran to a neighbor's house 701 00:34:48,060 --> 00:34:52,080 and called local police, but the assailant had escaped. 702 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:55,054 What do you believe would have happened if that man had 703 00:34:55,054 --> 00:34:56,025 caught up to you? 704 00:34:56,025 --> 00:34:58,050 My thought was he was going to rape me. 705 00:34:58,050 --> 00:35:01,002 A few days later, while Rose and her family 706 00:35:01,002 --> 00:35:03,036 were driving to dinner, her daughter Tina 707 00:35:03,036 --> 00:35:05,079 says she spotted that same blue El 708 00:35:05,079 --> 00:35:10,008 Camino with a burned-out tail light in a parking lot. 709 00:35:10,008 --> 00:35:12,087 My mom says right away, that's the car. 710 00:35:12,087 --> 00:35:16,095 Stunned, Rose and Tina say they went to call the police, 711 00:35:16,095 --> 00:35:21,051 leaving Rose's husband Stan, a retired Marine, waiting 712 00:35:21,051 --> 00:35:23,025 for the car's owner. 713 00:35:23,025 --> 00:35:27,051 I came back to my dad holding a gun at the attacker sitting 714 00:35:27,051 --> 00:35:28,029 on the ground. 715 00:35:28,029 --> 00:35:31,005 Tina says her father demanded the man hand 716 00:35:31,005 --> 00:35:32,097 over his driver's license. 717 00:35:32,097 --> 00:35:37,035 They say the name on that license, Patrick Gilham. 718 00:35:37,035 --> 00:35:39,078 We had never heard the name before. 719 00:35:39,078 --> 00:35:42,039 Rose says the police never arrived, 720 00:35:42,039 --> 00:35:46,020 so Stan lowered his gun and let Gilham leave. 721 00:35:46,020 --> 00:35:49,047 She says she later reported the incident at the South Bend 722 00:35:49,047 --> 00:35:50,079 Police Station. 723 00:35:50,079 --> 00:35:53,055 We didn't pursue it because we figured they would 724 00:35:53,055 --> 00:35:55,014 be doing something with it. 725 00:35:55,014 --> 00:35:57,054 No arrest was ever made. 726 00:35:57,054 --> 00:36:01,080 Decades later, when Rose saw the report of Gilham being arrested 727 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:04,062 for Roxanne Wood's murder, she and Tina 728 00:36:04,062 --> 00:36:08,085 decided to tell their story to the Michigan Police. 729 00:36:08,085 --> 00:36:11,056 Imagine if the police had come. 730 00:36:11,056 --> 00:36:15,096 They might have solved Roxanne Wood's case just a few months 731 00:36:15,096 --> 00:36:17,037 after it had occurred. 732 00:36:17,037 --> 00:36:18,099 Possible, yes. 733 00:36:18,099 --> 00:36:20,038 An opportunity lost? 734 00:36:20,038 --> 00:36:22,071 Yeah, yeah. 735 00:36:22,071 --> 00:36:24,054 It could have went that way. 736 00:36:24,054 --> 00:36:30,024 But in April 2022, Gilham's day of reckoning finally came. 737 00:36:30,024 --> 00:36:34,095 When he walked in, I openly said, piece of [BLEEP].. 738 00:36:34,095 --> 00:36:38,046 I didn't realize I was saying it as loudly as I did. 739 00:36:38,046 --> 00:36:40,092 In a Michigan courtroom, he faced 740 00:36:40,092 --> 00:36:45,009 some of the people whose lives he had viciously altered. 741 00:36:45,009 --> 00:36:46,093 And he made eye contact with me. 742 00:36:46,093 --> 00:36:49,065 He sat down, and he looked up. 743 00:36:49,065 --> 00:36:52,010 And he stared right in my face. 744 00:36:52,010 --> 00:36:53,082 I don't remember, man. 745 00:36:53,082 --> 00:36:56,064 Even though Gilham had insisted to investigators 746 00:36:56,064 --> 00:36:59,043 that he didn't remember murdering Roxanne, 747 00:36:59,043 --> 00:37:03,063 he later pleaded no contest to second-degree murder. 748 00:37:03,063 --> 00:37:08,011 And now everyone waited for his sentence to be handed down. 749 00:37:08,011 --> 00:37:10,062 It was almost like being face to face with the devil. 750 00:37:10,062 --> 00:37:13,095 I remember being shaky and nervous, 751 00:37:13,095 --> 00:37:18,060 and I just couldn't believe I'm sitting this close 752 00:37:18,060 --> 00:37:20,064 to the person that did this. 753 00:37:20,064 --> 00:37:23,016 Brad and Janet finally got the chance 754 00:37:23,016 --> 00:37:26,025 to address the man who killed their sister 755 00:37:26,025 --> 00:37:28,053 all those years ago. 756 00:37:28,053 --> 00:37:30,057 Patrick Gilham is a very definition 757 00:37:30,057 --> 00:37:33,021 of a nightmare women fear our whole lives. 758 00:37:33,021 --> 00:37:36,069 Gilham appeared confused as though he'd seen a ghost 759 00:37:36,069 --> 00:37:38,019 when looking at Janet. 760 00:37:38,019 --> 00:37:41,019 He wore headphones in order to hear. 761 00:37:41,019 --> 00:37:43,098 Janet does look a lot like Rock. 762 00:37:43,098 --> 00:37:47,022 He was probably in shock seeing her sitting there. 763 00:37:47,022 --> 00:37:50,004 His actions gave all of us a life sentence, 764 00:37:50,004 --> 00:37:52,095 while he got to live most of his as a free man. 765 00:37:52,095 --> 00:37:56,019 And we are here today to see him finally pay 766 00:37:56,019 --> 00:37:59,001 something for what he's done, which is likely 767 00:37:59,001 --> 00:38:02,034 the rest of his life in a cage like the violent animal 768 00:38:02,034 --> 00:38:04,011 that he is. 769 00:38:04,011 --> 00:38:08,005 It seems people like him tend to find Jesus in prison. 770 00:38:08,005 --> 00:38:10,000 Don't bother looking because the devil will 771 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:11,044 be the only one greeting you. 772 00:38:11,044 --> 00:38:14,035 When it was his turn to speak, Gilham 773 00:38:14,035 --> 00:38:17,062 offered an apology and a prayer. 774 00:38:17,062 --> 00:38:20,026 I can't believe I did what I did. 775 00:38:20,026 --> 00:38:22,048 And I pray for them every night. 776 00:38:22,048 --> 00:38:23,098 I am so sorry. 777 00:38:23,098 --> 00:38:26,065 I just hope that sometime in the future, 778 00:38:26,065 --> 00:38:29,071 with God's help, that they can start to forgive me. 779 00:38:29,071 --> 00:38:33,022 The judge sentenced Gilham, who was 67 at the time, 780 00:38:33,022 --> 00:38:36,097 to a minimum of 23 years in prison. 781 00:38:36,097 --> 00:38:40,075 Sitting in court, Terry Wood, now vindicated, 782 00:38:40,075 --> 00:38:45,034 watched as his wife's real killer was led away. 783 00:38:45,034 --> 00:38:49,064 Robert Farag witnessed Terry's pain firsthand. 784 00:38:49,064 --> 00:38:50,053 I shook his hand. 785 00:38:50,053 --> 00:38:54,053 He was shaking, crying. 786 00:38:54,053 --> 00:38:59,004 I felt more empathy for him than I could for any other person 787 00:38:59,004 --> 00:39:00,036 I've met. 788 00:39:00,036 --> 00:39:03,054 Terry was cleared and his wife's killer 789 00:39:03,054 --> 00:39:08,010 found, thanks in large part to advances in technology. 790 00:39:08,010 --> 00:39:10,095 Genetic genealogist Gabriella Vargas, 791 00:39:10,095 --> 00:39:15,051 who solved a decades-long cold case in just four days, 792 00:39:15,051 --> 00:39:18,042 says she's eager to do it again. 793 00:39:18,042 --> 00:39:20,097 As a result of your work, more and more 794 00:39:20,097 --> 00:39:23,013 law enforcement agencies will be coming 795 00:39:23,013 --> 00:39:25,038 to you, more and more families hoping 796 00:39:25,038 --> 00:39:28,023 that you can do your miracle work 797 00:39:28,023 --> 00:39:30,060 and solve their cold cases. 798 00:39:30,060 --> 00:39:32,065 That's quite a burden for you, isn't it? 799 00:39:32,065 --> 00:39:34,059 Oh, absolutely not. 800 00:39:34,059 --> 00:39:35,082 It's an honor. 801 00:39:35,082 --> 00:39:38,085 It's an honor to be able to work these cases, 802 00:39:38,085 --> 00:39:42,033 to bring justice to these victims and closure 803 00:39:42,033 --> 00:39:45,021 to these families, and I will never stop. 804 00:39:45,021 --> 00:39:48,039 As the Wood family finally found some peace, 805 00:39:48,039 --> 00:39:52,059 they're Rock will always be with them, giving them the strength 806 00:39:52,059 --> 00:39:54,096 to move forward. 807 00:39:54,096 --> 00:40:00,010 Janet remembers a dream she had about her sister. 808 00:40:00,010 --> 00:40:03,063 We were downtown Niles, and she came up and grabbed me. 809 00:40:03,063 --> 00:40:05,040 And she goes, Janet. 810 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:08,022 And I was like, oh, Rock, oh my God. 811 00:40:08,022 --> 00:40:11,040 And we're walking and walking and walking and just laughing. 812 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:16,014 And all of a sudden, I look up, and it's dead silent. 813 00:40:16,014 --> 00:40:18,042 And we're at the gates of the cemetery. 814 00:40:21,045 --> 00:40:24,029 And I said, oh. 815 00:40:24,029 --> 00:40:27,039 I said, you have to go back, and she goes, yes. 816 00:40:27,039 --> 00:40:29,013 She goes, but it's fine. 817 00:40:29,013 --> 00:40:31,057 She goes, I'm good. 818 00:40:31,057 --> 00:40:33,032 I'm really good. 819 00:40:33,032 --> 00:40:34,025 That was it. 820 00:40:38,025 --> 00:40:41,062 [MUSIC PLAYING] 821 00:40:47,085 --> 00:40:50,089 Two young women, two unsolved murders. 822 00:40:50,089 --> 00:40:52,099 They were both killed the same night. 823 00:40:52,099 --> 00:40:55,084 Matching socks found in two different crime scenes. 824 00:40:55,084 --> 00:41:00,013 Now can DNA from a fast food bag finally catch the killer? 825 00:41:00,013 --> 00:41:01,063 It was like gold. 826 00:41:01,063 --> 00:41:06,087 48 Hours, Saturday on CBS and streaming on Paramount Plus.