1 00:00:04,166 --> 00:00:05,567 [John] Over the embankment, 2 00:00:05,567 --> 00:00:09,100 I could see an arm coming out of the sleeping bag. 3 00:00:09,166 --> 00:00:12,266 More than 30 stab wounds in this woman's body. 4 00:00:12,266 --> 00:00:15,367 Chest, neck, head, arms. 5 00:00:15,367 --> 00:00:17,266 [Stan] We had this lovely young mother 6 00:00:17,266 --> 00:00:18,967 who had some problems in her life. 7 00:00:18,967 --> 00:00:20,367 The wounds on Ginny's body 8 00:00:20,367 --> 00:00:23,767 suggested there was domestic violence. 9 00:00:23,767 --> 00:00:27,100 Why would he run if he has nothing to hide? 10 00:00:27,166 --> 00:00:28,567 [David] We have another murder. 11 00:00:29,467 --> 00:00:30,000 Do we have a serial killer here? 12 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:31,100 Do we have a serial killer here? 13 00:00:32,166 --> 00:00:34,100 [John] We're under tremendous pressure 14 00:00:34,100 --> 00:00:36,166 to solve these crimes. 15 00:00:36,166 --> 00:00:39,300 [David] He refused to give us his DNA. 16 00:00:39,367 --> 00:00:40,967 Genevieve's case 17 00:00:40,967 --> 00:00:43,900 now goes cold for nine years. 18 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:49,000 This new discovery breathes life into the case. 19 00:00:49,867 --> 00:00:51,867 [David] This has got to be the guy. 20 00:00:53,100 --> 00:00:55,000 [narrator] Every day in North America, 21 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,567 dozens of people are murdered. 22 00:00:57,567 --> 00:01:00,000 The key to solving the toughest of these homicides 23 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:00,066 The key to solving the toughest of these homicides 24 00:01:00,066 --> 00:01:03,166 lies in the final 24 hours of the victim's life. 25 00:01:04,066 --> 00:01:05,667 To crack the case, 26 00:01:05,667 --> 00:01:09,300 detectives must reconstruct that critical timeline, 27 00:01:09,367 --> 00:01:12,166 the minutes and hours containing evidence 28 00:01:12,166 --> 00:01:15,300 that can help unlock the mystery and catch the killer. 29 00:01:24,700 --> 00:01:27,767 Carved between Cook Inlet and Chugach Mountains, 30 00:01:27,767 --> 00:01:30,000 Anchorage is Alaska's most populous city. 31 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:30,066 Anchorage is Alaska's most populous city. 32 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:33,767 [Stan] It's a fairly large city, 33 00:01:33,767 --> 00:01:35,066 300,000 people, 34 00:01:35,667 --> 00:01:37,100 but at the same time, 35 00:01:37,100 --> 00:01:39,100 it's on the edge of the wilderness 36 00:01:39,100 --> 00:01:40,467 and kind of part of the wilderness. 37 00:01:41,367 --> 00:01:43,000 [David] I call it a great town 38 00:01:43,066 --> 00:01:45,000 because it has a town feeling. 39 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,000 Every time you go into the supermarket, 40 00:01:47,066 --> 00:01:49,166 you see people you know 41 00:01:49,166 --> 00:01:53,100 and there's a cooperative feeling to this community. 42 00:01:55,066 --> 00:01:56,700 But it does have its dark side 43 00:01:56,767 --> 00:01:58,000 and it always has. 44 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,000 That's an intrinsic part of Alaska history 45 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:00,467 That's an intrinsic part of Alaska history 46 00:02:00,467 --> 00:02:02,667 everywhere, including Anchorage. 47 00:02:02,667 --> 00:02:04,700 Trouble is very easy to find in Anchorage. 48 00:02:04,767 --> 00:02:07,567 You don't have to look very far or very hard. 49 00:02:07,567 --> 00:02:10,700 [narrator] And on the morning of March 22nd, 2000, 50 00:02:10,767 --> 00:02:12,367 just outside of Anchorage, 51 00:02:12,367 --> 00:02:14,066 trouble finds a passing trucker. 52 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,767 Anchorage police lieutenant John McKinnon is first to respond. 53 00:02:20,700 --> 00:02:22,967 I received a call on the radio 54 00:02:22,967 --> 00:02:24,300 that a delivery driver 55 00:02:24,367 --> 00:02:27,467 had discovered a body in East Anchorage 56 00:02:27,467 --> 00:02:29,400 and I responded code three to the area. 57 00:02:31,967 --> 00:02:35,767 Code three means that you respond with your lights and siren 58 00:02:35,767 --> 00:02:37,100 and it's urgent. 59 00:02:39,367 --> 00:02:42,000 Upon my arrival, the driver told me that 60 00:02:42,066 --> 00:02:45,600 he was making a delivery to the military base 61 00:02:45,667 --> 00:02:48,367 and that he needed to stop and relieve himself. 62 00:02:50,266 --> 00:02:52,367 The driver pointed my attention 63 00:02:52,367 --> 00:02:53,967 over the embankment - 64 00:02:53,967 --> 00:02:57,767 it's about 30 feet from the top of where the street level is - 65 00:02:57,767 --> 00:03:00,000 over to where the sleeping bag... 66 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:00,500 over to where the sleeping bag... 67 00:03:00,567 --> 00:03:03,567 There was an arm coming out of the sleeping bag. 68 00:03:04,667 --> 00:03:06,367 I can see blood 69 00:03:06,367 --> 00:03:09,100 and I know that this is potentially a homicide. 70 00:03:11,266 --> 00:03:14,367 I walked, kind of, around where the body was 71 00:03:15,066 --> 00:03:16,700 and I start to take pictures. 72 00:03:18,667 --> 00:03:21,867 I could tell by the hairstyle and the clothing 73 00:03:21,867 --> 00:03:23,266 that it was a female. 74 00:03:24,100 --> 00:03:25,867 She had a light-colored shirt on. 75 00:03:25,867 --> 00:03:28,467 I could see by her bone structure 76 00:03:28,467 --> 00:03:30,000 that she was likely a native female. 77 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,100 that she was likely a native female. 78 00:03:32,166 --> 00:03:34,200 [narrator] Lieutenant McKinnon calls in backup 79 00:03:34,266 --> 00:03:35,767 to secure the location 80 00:03:35,767 --> 00:03:38,700 so that crime scene technicians can process the site. 81 00:03:41,300 --> 00:03:45,367 Anchorage police lieutenant David Parker joins the investigation. 82 00:03:45,367 --> 00:03:49,266 This woman had multiple stab wounds on her body. 83 00:03:49,266 --> 00:03:52,567 That would exclude any kind of accident, 84 00:03:52,567 --> 00:03:55,166 thus we are sure that it is a homicide. 85 00:03:57,100 --> 00:04:00,000 It is the fifth woman of color within a year 86 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:00,500 It is the fifth woman of color within a year 87 00:04:00,567 --> 00:04:02,467 whose body has been found outside 88 00:04:02,467 --> 00:04:05,300 and none of those crimes have yet been solved. 89 00:04:05,367 --> 00:04:07,767 So the question on our mind is 90 00:04:07,767 --> 00:04:09,967 are we dealing with a serial killer 91 00:04:09,967 --> 00:04:13,400 or are we dealing with isolated incidents? 92 00:04:13,467 --> 00:04:15,767 So we have to start from ground zero. 93 00:04:15,767 --> 00:04:18,667 We have virtually nothing to go on. 94 00:04:20,166 --> 00:04:22,467 We don't see a blood trail. 95 00:04:22,467 --> 00:04:26,066 We don't see blood surrounding her body. 96 00:04:26,066 --> 00:04:29,867 It's basically contained within the sleeping bag. 97 00:04:29,867 --> 00:04:30,000 So we know that 98 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:31,467 So we know that 99 00:04:31,467 --> 00:04:34,867 she was murdered somewhere else, 100 00:04:34,867 --> 00:04:38,767 and so our investigation begins upon that premise. 101 00:04:40,100 --> 00:04:41,467 This is a dump site. 102 00:04:41,467 --> 00:04:45,266 This woman had been thrown off of the roadway 103 00:04:46,467 --> 00:04:49,166 to the position where she landed. 104 00:04:49,166 --> 00:04:52,400 Most people don't have the strength that it takes 105 00:04:52,467 --> 00:04:54,166 to do such a thing 106 00:04:54,166 --> 00:04:56,767 to get a body into that position. 107 00:04:59,667 --> 00:05:00,000 [John] There were two sets of footprints next to each other. 108 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,767 [John] There were two sets of footprints next to each other. 109 00:05:03,700 --> 00:05:05,767 [David] So, we knew that there was probably 110 00:05:05,767 --> 00:05:08,367 more than one person involved, 111 00:05:08,367 --> 00:05:09,900 at least two. 112 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,100 [narrator] Before they can solve the crime, 113 00:05:13,166 --> 00:05:16,266 investigators must first ID the victim. 114 00:05:16,266 --> 00:05:19,467 There is no identification with the body, 115 00:05:19,467 --> 00:05:21,667 either in the bag or on her person. 116 00:05:21,667 --> 00:05:24,266 Also, there was an absence of jewelry. 117 00:05:24,266 --> 00:05:25,600 So that could indicate that 118 00:05:25,667 --> 00:05:29,266 there was a robbery motive to her murder. 119 00:05:29,266 --> 00:05:30,000 [narrator] But crime scene technicians find other clues 120 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:31,767 [narrator] But crime scene technicians find other clues 121 00:05:31,767 --> 00:05:33,867 that may help identify the victim 122 00:05:33,867 --> 00:05:35,000 and catch her killer. 123 00:05:35,867 --> 00:05:37,300 [David] Within the sleeping bag, 124 00:05:37,367 --> 00:05:40,367 we find small pieces of beauty bark, 125 00:05:40,367 --> 00:05:43,166 that, kind of, landscaping material 126 00:05:43,166 --> 00:05:45,367 that people put around their trees and gardens. 127 00:05:46,300 --> 00:05:47,767 We find a crutch 128 00:05:47,767 --> 00:05:51,667 with a person's name written in tape on the side of it. 129 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:54,767 Higgins was the name. 130 00:05:54,767 --> 00:05:57,867 We find, also, a large trash bag 131 00:05:57,867 --> 00:06:00,000 containing papers and all kinds of trash 132 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:01,467 containing papers and all kinds of trash 133 00:06:01,467 --> 00:06:03,767 next to the body. 134 00:06:03,767 --> 00:06:06,567 It's lucky that we had found her on that particular day 135 00:06:06,567 --> 00:06:08,667 because we may never have found her. 136 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:10,767 Could've had bears 137 00:06:10,767 --> 00:06:12,767 or other predator animals 138 00:06:12,767 --> 00:06:15,667 that had happened upon her and drug her into the woods. 139 00:06:16,700 --> 00:06:18,500 [narrator] When a victim is killed elsewhere 140 00:06:18,567 --> 00:06:19,900 and the body dumped, 141 00:06:19,967 --> 00:06:22,066 investigators face an uphill battle. 142 00:06:37,667 --> 00:06:40,467 [narrator] Investigators may never know where this woman was killed 143 00:06:40,467 --> 00:06:41,900 or by whom 144 00:06:41,967 --> 00:06:44,867 until they answer one key question. 145 00:06:44,867 --> 00:06:47,467 How are we gonna figure out who this person is? 146 00:06:48,667 --> 00:06:51,467 I took a thumbprint off of her hand. 147 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:55,100 In the United States, it's not uncommon 148 00:06:55,100 --> 00:06:57,767 for an individual to have their fingerprints taken 149 00:06:57,767 --> 00:06:59,900 for purposes of employment 150 00:06:59,967 --> 00:07:00,000 or if you have a criminal history. 151 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,166 or if you have a criminal history. 152 00:07:03,166 --> 00:07:05,400 We're able to use her fingerprint 153 00:07:05,467 --> 00:07:07,500 at the police department and scan it, 154 00:07:08,900 --> 00:07:11,667 and within a few minutes, we have identification. 155 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:17,367 [narrator] The victim is 28-year-old Genevieve Tetpon 156 00:07:17,367 --> 00:07:19,000 who works in an Anchorage bakery. 157 00:07:19,667 --> 00:07:21,266 Known as Ginny, 158 00:07:21,266 --> 00:07:23,100 she was a devoted mother of four. 159 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:27,266 Now comes the very tough job of notifying the family. 160 00:07:28,700 --> 00:07:30,000 We go to talk to her mother who works at the local hospital. 161 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,100 We go to talk to her mother who works at the local hospital. 162 00:07:32,100 --> 00:07:34,266 This is not an easy job for officers. 163 00:07:35,467 --> 00:07:38,066 [Stan] David was described by her mother 164 00:07:38,066 --> 00:07:41,266 as a sweet, loving person with a huge smile, 165 00:07:41,266 --> 00:07:43,767 somebody you would really like to know. 166 00:07:43,767 --> 00:07:45,367 [narrator] Throughout her short life, 167 00:07:45,367 --> 00:07:47,467 Ginny struggled with hardships 168 00:07:47,467 --> 00:07:49,667 but always persevered. 169 00:07:49,667 --> 00:07:52,700 [David] She had difficulty with finances, 170 00:07:52,767 --> 00:07:55,500 difficulty making ends meet. 171 00:07:55,567 --> 00:07:57,100 She was a single mom 172 00:07:57,100 --> 00:08:00,000 and had all of the responsibilities 173 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:00,400 and had all of the responsibilities 174 00:08:00,467 --> 00:08:04,266 and the stress that comes with having four young kids. 175 00:08:04,266 --> 00:08:06,800 She worked hard to try and provide for those kids, 176 00:08:07,967 --> 00:08:09,667 and now, after all her effort, 177 00:08:09,667 --> 00:08:12,700 those kids are gonna have to grow up without a mom. 178 00:08:12,767 --> 00:08:15,300 Knowing this, it puts tremendous pressure on the detectives 179 00:08:15,367 --> 00:08:17,800 to find the person responsible for this killing. 180 00:08:19,367 --> 00:08:21,066 [narrator] Police now attempt to piece together 181 00:08:21,066 --> 00:08:23,467 the final 24 hours of Ginny's life. 182 00:08:25,066 --> 00:08:28,266 The first challenge is to determine exactly when she was killed. 183 00:08:30,266 --> 00:08:32,367 [John] In Alaska, it is very difficult 184 00:08:32,367 --> 00:08:34,600 to determine the time of death 185 00:08:34,667 --> 00:08:36,200 because of the elements. 186 00:08:36,266 --> 00:08:37,700 Temperatures are cold, 187 00:08:37,767 --> 00:08:40,400 so bodies do not decompose like indoors 188 00:08:40,467 --> 00:08:43,166 or, say, in a warmer climate. 189 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,166 As I look at the footprints, 190 00:08:46,166 --> 00:08:48,000 I can see that they look like they had been there 191 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,066 for some few hours, probably, 192 00:08:50,066 --> 00:08:52,066 or maybe even almost an entire day. 193 00:08:53,567 --> 00:08:55,400 [David] Ginny had gone missing 194 00:08:55,467 --> 00:08:58,567 a couple of days before her body was found. 195 00:08:59,767 --> 00:09:00,000 [John] On March 19th, 196 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:01,400 [John] On March 19th, 197 00:09:01,467 --> 00:09:04,200 three days prior to Ginny's body being discovered, 198 00:09:04,266 --> 00:09:07,467 her mom tells us that she helped her move into a new place. 199 00:09:09,100 --> 00:09:11,867 Ginny worked in a bakery and, on March 20th, 200 00:09:11,867 --> 00:09:14,500 after her shift, at 3:30 PM, 201 00:09:14,567 --> 00:09:16,567 she was supposed to come to her mom's house, 202 00:09:16,567 --> 00:09:18,767 but she never showed. 203 00:09:18,767 --> 00:09:22,066 Ginny's mother never heard from her again 204 00:09:22,066 --> 00:09:25,000 and on March 22nd her body is discovered. 205 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:28,667 [narrator] A coroner's exam 206 00:09:28,667 --> 00:09:30,000 tells investigators more about how Ginny died. 207 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,266 tells investigators more about how Ginny died. 208 00:09:32,467 --> 00:09:35,166 [John] There were over 21 stab wounds. 209 00:09:35,166 --> 00:09:38,266 Massive defensive wounds were discovered on her hands, 210 00:09:38,266 --> 00:09:41,867 which indicated that she had fought off her attacker. 211 00:09:41,867 --> 00:09:46,500 She had deep penetrating wounds to her chest, 212 00:09:46,567 --> 00:09:49,266 so deep that her heart was punctured. 213 00:09:50,467 --> 00:09:53,200 She has a slash mark on her neck 214 00:09:53,266 --> 00:09:55,667 where it went very deep 215 00:09:55,667 --> 00:10:00,000 and the wound was one that could very easily have killed her. 216 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:00,567 and the wound was one that could very easily have killed her. 217 00:10:00,567 --> 00:10:03,100 [John] Someone must have been very angry with her 218 00:10:03,100 --> 00:10:06,266 to stab her this many times. 219 00:10:06,266 --> 00:10:09,567 [David] Often, when we find a woman deceased outdoors 220 00:10:09,567 --> 00:10:11,100 in this kind of a situation, 221 00:10:11,166 --> 00:10:13,367 we automatically assume that there has been 222 00:10:13,367 --> 00:10:15,667 some kind of sexual assault that took place. 223 00:10:16,367 --> 00:10:17,567 In Genevieve's case, 224 00:10:17,567 --> 00:10:20,567 there was no indication of a sexual assault. 225 00:10:21,667 --> 00:10:23,367 [John] There was foreign skin cells 226 00:10:23,367 --> 00:10:25,066 that were located under her fingernails, 227 00:10:25,066 --> 00:10:28,166 likely that of the suspect who was responsible. 228 00:10:28,166 --> 00:10:30,000 We know that DNA 229 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:30,100 We know that DNA 230 00:10:30,166 --> 00:10:33,000 is preserved through freezing. 231 00:10:33,066 --> 00:10:36,567 So we're hopeful that we'll get an immediate match 232 00:10:36,567 --> 00:10:38,266 and have an understanding 233 00:10:38,266 --> 00:10:42,066 of whose DNA is under Genevieve's fingernails. 234 00:10:44,500 --> 00:10:46,467 [John] The DNA results return 235 00:10:46,467 --> 00:10:48,967 and we do have a DNA profile 236 00:10:48,967 --> 00:10:52,367 that has been developed from the zipper on the sleeping bag 237 00:10:52,367 --> 00:10:56,000 and also from underneath the fingernails of Genevieve. 238 00:10:58,867 --> 00:11:00,000 [narrator] The profile matches no one 239 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:00,467 [narrator] The profile matches no one 240 00:11:00,467 --> 00:11:03,100 that's already in the DNA database. 241 00:11:03,166 --> 00:11:06,400 But DNA isn't the only thing the killer left behind. 242 00:11:07,767 --> 00:11:09,166 Back at headquarters, 243 00:11:09,166 --> 00:11:11,100 investigators take a closer look 244 00:11:11,100 --> 00:11:12,767 at evidence collected from the scene. 245 00:11:14,266 --> 00:11:16,066 [David] Within the plastic bag, 246 00:11:16,066 --> 00:11:18,800 we find bills and that sort of thing 247 00:11:18,867 --> 00:11:20,300 that you would normally find 248 00:11:20,367 --> 00:11:22,900 in trash being thrown out of a person's home. 249 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,567 As we dissect the contents of the garbage bag, 250 00:11:27,567 --> 00:11:29,300 we find emails 251 00:11:29,367 --> 00:11:30,000 to a woman named Alana Tufnell. 252 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,166 to a woman named Alana Tufnell. 253 00:11:33,266 --> 00:11:35,200 We discover she is an employee 254 00:11:35,266 --> 00:11:37,166 of the Anchorage School District. 255 00:11:38,300 --> 00:11:40,867 [John] We need to go talk to Alana Tufnell right away. 256 00:11:40,867 --> 00:11:42,600 We're not sure what we're gonna hear 257 00:11:42,667 --> 00:11:44,467 when we present these papers to her. 258 00:11:45,100 --> 00:11:46,266 It's very suspicious. 259 00:11:50,166 --> 00:11:51,867 [narrator] Investigators have their first lead 260 00:11:51,867 --> 00:11:55,000 in the murder of 28-year-old Genevieve Tetpon, 261 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,066 known as Ginny to her family and friends. 262 00:11:58,066 --> 00:12:01,166 Alongside Ginny's body are found printed emails 263 00:12:01,166 --> 00:12:04,166 belonging to a woman named Alana Tufnell, 264 00:12:04,166 --> 00:12:06,066 a married mother of two boys 265 00:12:06,066 --> 00:12:08,567 who's an administrator for the Anchorage School District. 266 00:12:10,367 --> 00:12:13,467 [David] Alana was mystified as to how 267 00:12:13,467 --> 00:12:16,467 her garbage could've ended up at a crime scene. 268 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:18,574 Alana's job with the school district 269 00:12:18,574 --> 00:12:19,500 Alana's job with the school district 270 00:12:19,567 --> 00:12:22,767 was one that required a lot of paperwork, 271 00:12:22,767 --> 00:12:24,900 a lot of computer communication 272 00:12:24,967 --> 00:12:27,266 and she often printed those things out. 273 00:12:27,266 --> 00:12:29,800 She would often take them home with her 274 00:12:29,867 --> 00:12:32,266 and that was her explanation 275 00:12:32,266 --> 00:12:36,500 for why the emails would be in her car. 276 00:12:36,567 --> 00:12:40,367 Then she remembered that, a few months prior, 277 00:12:41,300 --> 00:12:43,000 her car had been broken into. 278 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,266 She made a police report about that. 279 00:12:45,266 --> 00:12:48,166 And she hypothesized that, perhaps, 280 00:12:48,166 --> 00:12:48,574 the garbage bag had been taken out of her car at that time 281 00:12:48,574 --> 00:12:51,767 the garbage bag had been taken out of her car at that time 282 00:12:51,767 --> 00:12:54,000 and that's how it ended up 283 00:12:54,066 --> 00:12:56,467 separated by miles from her home. 284 00:12:57,800 --> 00:12:59,367 The other evidence found at the scene, 285 00:12:59,367 --> 00:13:02,500 the crutch with the name on it, was Higgins. 286 00:13:02,567 --> 00:13:06,100 She didn't have any idea who would be using a crutch 287 00:13:06,100 --> 00:13:08,867 or whose name that was. 288 00:13:11,667 --> 00:13:13,500 [John] Upon looking for connections 289 00:13:13,567 --> 00:13:16,767 between Alana Tufnell and Ginny, 290 00:13:16,767 --> 00:13:18,400 there are no connections. 291 00:13:18,467 --> 00:13:18,574 Alana does not know Ginny. 292 00:13:18,574 --> 00:13:20,000 Alana does not know Ginny. 293 00:13:20,066 --> 00:13:21,867 They have never met before. 294 00:13:21,867 --> 00:13:23,500 It's very confusing. 295 00:13:25,066 --> 00:13:28,567 [David] In reviewing the police report about the car break-in, 296 00:13:28,567 --> 00:13:31,867 we're not able to determine a suspect for that. 297 00:13:33,667 --> 00:13:35,367 We don't have any idea 298 00:13:35,367 --> 00:13:37,600 who may have broken into the car. 299 00:13:37,667 --> 00:13:40,166 Every time we follow up on a lead, 300 00:13:40,166 --> 00:13:41,800 we hope that that's the lead 301 00:13:41,867 --> 00:13:43,900 that's gonna lead us to the killer. 302 00:13:43,967 --> 00:13:46,300 In this case, our best lead 303 00:13:46,367 --> 00:13:48,100 turned out to be nothing. 304 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:52,367 At this time, we go back to Ginny's family and friends 305 00:13:52,367 --> 00:13:54,500 and try to determine her routines 306 00:13:55,300 --> 00:13:56,667 and her associates 307 00:13:56,667 --> 00:14:00,100 and what she would've been doing prior to her death. 308 00:14:00,100 --> 00:14:02,567 [narrator] Ginny is last seen leaving her bakery job 309 00:14:02,567 --> 00:14:05,367 at 3:30 PM on March 20th. 310 00:14:05,367 --> 00:14:08,166 Two days later, on March 22nd, 311 00:14:08,166 --> 00:14:11,266 she's found dead by the side of the road. 312 00:14:11,266 --> 00:14:14,000 A key to our investigation at this point is 313 00:14:14,066 --> 00:14:16,400 what happened in those intervening days. 314 00:14:16,467 --> 00:14:18,574 Where was Ginny? Who was she with? 315 00:14:18,574 --> 00:14:19,166 Where was Ginny? Who was she with? 316 00:14:19,166 --> 00:14:22,367 Who knew her whereabouts? 317 00:14:22,367 --> 00:14:25,166 Everyone we talked to at that point 318 00:14:25,166 --> 00:14:28,166 could not give us specific information 319 00:14:28,166 --> 00:14:31,266 about where she was and what she was doing. 320 00:14:31,266 --> 00:14:33,567 We were trying to determine who was the last person 321 00:14:33,567 --> 00:14:36,500 who had spoken with Ginny when she was alive. 322 00:14:36,567 --> 00:14:39,166 The family is unclear who that was, 323 00:14:39,166 --> 00:14:42,767 but they believe there is someone that we should talk to, 324 00:14:43,567 --> 00:14:44,800 Cameron Gessler, 325 00:14:46,100 --> 00:14:48,574 whom Ginny had been engaged to recently. 326 00:14:48,574 --> 00:14:49,266 whom Ginny had been engaged to recently. 327 00:14:51,266 --> 00:14:54,800 This sets off alarm bells because, in many homicides, 328 00:14:54,867 --> 00:14:57,367 the victims know their assailants. 329 00:14:57,367 --> 00:14:59,800 A large portion of knife crimes 330 00:14:59,867 --> 00:15:02,100 are linked to domestic violence. 331 00:15:02,166 --> 00:15:05,166 In domestic incidents involving violence, 332 00:15:05,166 --> 00:15:06,700 when knives are used, 333 00:15:06,767 --> 00:15:09,567 it could suggest a heightened level of anger. 334 00:15:09,567 --> 00:15:12,767 So, "I am going to get up close and personal with you 335 00:15:12,767 --> 00:15:15,367 in order to exact this violence," 336 00:15:15,367 --> 00:15:18,574 which could be indicators of rage, jealousy, 337 00:15:18,574 --> 00:15:19,667 which could be indicators of rage, jealousy, 338 00:15:19,667 --> 00:15:21,266 those sorts of motivations. 339 00:15:22,300 --> 00:15:23,900 [David] What we learned from Ginny's family 340 00:15:23,967 --> 00:15:26,300 about her relationship with Cameron 341 00:15:26,367 --> 00:15:28,700 was that their relationship was a troubled one 342 00:15:29,867 --> 00:15:31,467 and that there was often friction. 343 00:15:31,467 --> 00:15:33,767 Ginny's family didn't like Cameron 344 00:15:33,767 --> 00:15:36,400 because he did not treat her 345 00:15:36,467 --> 00:15:39,800 as well as they thought that he should. 346 00:15:39,867 --> 00:15:42,967 From our perspective, we really need to follow up on this 347 00:15:42,967 --> 00:15:45,300 because that is so typical 348 00:15:45,367 --> 00:15:47,867 of a relationship in which violence breaks out. 349 00:15:49,100 --> 00:15:51,467 [narrator] Investigators knock on Cameron's door. 350 00:15:51,467 --> 00:15:52,900 He's not home, 351 00:15:52,967 --> 00:15:55,867 but his roommate is and he invites them in. 352 00:15:55,867 --> 00:15:59,000 We learn that Cameron and Ginny had actually broken up 353 00:15:59,066 --> 00:16:01,867 about three weeks prior to her body being discovered. 354 00:16:03,667 --> 00:16:06,066 Cameron was very upset over the fact 355 00:16:06,066 --> 00:16:09,000 that he had given her an engagement ring 356 00:16:09,066 --> 00:16:11,367 and wanted that ring back. 357 00:16:11,367 --> 00:16:14,500 And so there had been some kind of a dispute 358 00:16:14,567 --> 00:16:17,767 over whether or not she would give the ring back. 359 00:16:19,367 --> 00:16:22,300 That sends up alarm bells in our minds 360 00:16:22,367 --> 00:16:25,000 because we know that no jewelry has been found on her body, 361 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,467 no wedding ring, no engagement ring. 362 00:16:30,700 --> 00:16:33,300 So the assumption there would be that, 363 00:16:33,367 --> 00:16:34,767 because of this argument, 364 00:16:34,767 --> 00:16:37,767 perhaps Cameron had murdered her 365 00:16:37,767 --> 00:16:39,467 and taken his ring back. 366 00:16:40,700 --> 00:16:42,400 Cameron's roommate was cooperative 367 00:16:42,467 --> 00:16:44,767 and he allows us to look around the house. 368 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:48,574 There, we find a sleeping bag 369 00:16:48,574 --> 00:16:50,066 There, we find a sleeping bag 370 00:16:50,066 --> 00:16:54,266 very similar to the one that Ginny was found in 371 00:16:54,266 --> 00:16:57,367 and Cameron's roommate tells us that 372 00:16:57,367 --> 00:16:59,300 that belongs to Cameron himself. 373 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:04,000 When we were able to examine that sleeping bag, 374 00:17:04,066 --> 00:17:06,100 we find dark blood stains in it. 375 00:17:07,667 --> 00:17:11,767 We collect it and send it off for DNA testing. 376 00:17:11,767 --> 00:17:13,800 [narrator] Detectives need to find Cameron 377 00:17:13,867 --> 00:17:16,967 and they fan out across Anchorage. 378 00:17:16,967 --> 00:17:18,574 [David] We then go to Cameron's last-known place of employment. 379 00:17:18,574 --> 00:17:20,700 [David] We then go to Cameron's last-known place of employment. 380 00:17:20,767 --> 00:17:23,667 It's a major hotel in downtown Anchorage 381 00:17:23,667 --> 00:17:26,000 and it's under construction. 382 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:30,967 Cameron's job was that of a handyman at the hotel. 383 00:17:30,967 --> 00:17:34,000 [John] When we get there, Cameron is nowhere to be found. 384 00:17:35,367 --> 00:17:36,800 In looking around the hotel, 385 00:17:36,867 --> 00:17:39,767 we notice that there's fresh beauty bark 386 00:17:39,767 --> 00:17:43,500 laid out on the ground covering a, 387 00:17:43,567 --> 00:17:45,867 kind of a manicured, groomed area. 388 00:17:47,166 --> 00:17:48,574 [narrator] It looks identical to the bark 389 00:17:48,574 --> 00:17:49,066 [narrator] It looks identical to the bark 390 00:17:49,066 --> 00:17:51,367 found inside the sleeping bag with Ginny. 391 00:17:52,567 --> 00:17:54,800 When my partner and I find the beauty bark, 392 00:17:54,867 --> 00:17:57,367 we start asking ourselves, 393 00:17:57,367 --> 00:18:00,400 "Is this the place that Genevieve was killed?" 394 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:05,767 So we collect samples of that for analysis. 395 00:18:07,266 --> 00:18:10,967 We then go upstairs and search the entire hotel. 396 00:18:11,967 --> 00:18:14,367 Since the hotel is under construction, 397 00:18:14,367 --> 00:18:16,500 it was easy to gain access. 398 00:18:16,567 --> 00:18:18,574 And we find nothing. Nothing. 399 00:18:18,574 --> 00:18:19,266 And we find nothing. Nothing. 400 00:18:19,266 --> 00:18:21,266 No blood. Nothing that would indicate 401 00:18:21,266 --> 00:18:23,767 that any kind of a struggle had taken place there. 402 00:18:24,567 --> 00:18:26,367 Our hopes are completely dashed. 403 00:18:26,367 --> 00:18:28,100 So we have to pick up, 404 00:18:28,166 --> 00:18:31,266 carry whatever evidence we do have back to the lab 405 00:18:31,266 --> 00:18:33,266 and continue our investigation. 406 00:18:34,266 --> 00:18:35,400 [Slav speaking] 407 00:18:52,767 --> 00:18:55,567 [David] So, we go to his new girlfriend's home. 408 00:18:55,567 --> 00:18:58,567 She is not very cooperative with the police. 409 00:18:58,567 --> 00:19:02,100 She doesn't know where Cameron is, she says. 410 00:19:07,166 --> 00:19:10,100 [David] And it was at that point that we see Cameron 411 00:19:10,100 --> 00:19:12,767 escaping out of the back of the house 412 00:19:12,767 --> 00:19:15,166 and running away from the police. 413 00:19:16,700 --> 00:19:18,574 Why would he run if he has nothing to hide? 414 00:19:18,574 --> 00:19:19,266 Why would he run if he has nothing to hide? 415 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:25,300 [narrator] 10 days after Genevieve Tetpon, 416 00:19:25,367 --> 00:19:27,100 known as Ginny, is murdered, 417 00:19:27,166 --> 00:19:31,867 detectives hunt for her ex-fiance, Cameron Gessler. 418 00:19:31,867 --> 00:19:34,667 Cameron was last seen fleeing from police on foot. 419 00:19:35,567 --> 00:19:36,700 He's too fast. 420 00:19:36,767 --> 00:19:39,166 He knows the neighborhood better than we do. 421 00:19:40,100 --> 00:19:41,867 We lose him. 422 00:19:41,867 --> 00:19:45,100 This is a crushing blow to the investigation. 423 00:19:45,166 --> 00:19:47,100 First of all, this is Alaska, 424 00:19:47,166 --> 00:19:51,066 over 500,000 square miles of nothingness, basically. Wilderness. 425 00:19:51,066 --> 00:19:52,127 Lots of places to hide. 426 00:19:52,127 --> 00:19:52,567 Lots of places to hide. 427 00:19:52,567 --> 00:19:55,000 And also, a few miles away, there's a gigantic airport 428 00:19:55,066 --> 00:19:58,000 that'll take you to any place in the world you wanna go. 429 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,567 There's a lot of things stacking up against Cameron. 430 00:20:00,567 --> 00:20:02,767 The wounds on Ginny's body 431 00:20:02,767 --> 00:20:06,000 suggested there was, potentially, domestic violence. 432 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,166 He is evading talking with us 433 00:20:08,166 --> 00:20:09,500 and is on the run. 434 00:20:10,100 --> 00:20:11,166 Another factor 435 00:20:11,166 --> 00:20:12,667 Another factor that we have to consider, 436 00:20:12,667 --> 00:20:15,166 is the fact the beauty bark 437 00:20:15,166 --> 00:20:17,867 found in Genevieve's sleeping bag 438 00:20:17,867 --> 00:20:22,127 matches the beauty bark that we find at Cameron's workplace. 439 00:20:22,127 --> 00:20:22,767 matches the beauty bark that we find at Cameron's workplace. 440 00:20:24,767 --> 00:20:27,500 [narrator] The evidence pointing to Cameron as Ginny's killer 441 00:20:27,567 --> 00:20:29,967 doesn't stop there. 442 00:20:29,967 --> 00:20:34,300 [Parker] As we received the DNA results of the blood in the sleeping bag 443 00:20:34,367 --> 00:20:36,667 seized at Cameron's former residence, 444 00:20:37,567 --> 00:20:40,767 the DNA indicates that that blood 445 00:20:40,767 --> 00:20:42,567 was from Genevieve Tetpon. 446 00:21:00,467 --> 00:21:02,266 [Parker] We look at our police records, 447 00:21:02,266 --> 00:21:04,867 everything that has to do with Cameron, 448 00:21:04,867 --> 00:21:08,367 and we find that less than 12 hours before 449 00:21:08,367 --> 00:21:10,867 Genevieve was discovered, 450 00:21:10,867 --> 00:21:14,266 his car was in a hit and run accident. 451 00:21:14,266 --> 00:21:18,000 And a man matching Cameron's description ran from the scene. 452 00:21:34,667 --> 00:21:39,467 [narrator] On the hunt for Cameron, police turn to Ginny's neighbors for help. 453 00:21:39,467 --> 00:21:42,100 [Jones] Now the police go back to Ginny's old neighborhood 454 00:21:42,100 --> 00:21:44,467 and they try to talk to people who knew her, 455 00:21:44,467 --> 00:21:46,567 people she interacted with, 456 00:21:46,567 --> 00:21:50,900 find out what went on with her in the last few days of her life. 457 00:21:50,967 --> 00:21:52,127 We learned from the neighbors that sometime about February 27th 458 00:21:52,127 --> 00:21:55,066 We learned from the neighbors that sometime about February 27th 459 00:21:55,066 --> 00:21:59,567 that Ginny and Cameron had a big argument 460 00:21:59,567 --> 00:22:01,467 at her new residence, 461 00:22:01,467 --> 00:22:04,967 and ultimately she left that scene 462 00:22:04,967 --> 00:22:07,967 with a man they identified as L.T. 463 00:22:09,367 --> 00:22:12,300 [narrator] Police discover L.T. has a history of assault, 464 00:22:12,367 --> 00:22:14,166 and he's already incarcerated. 465 00:22:15,467 --> 00:22:17,567 [Parker] When we brought L.T. in for interview, 466 00:22:17,567 --> 00:22:20,667 he refused to give us his DNA 467 00:22:20,667 --> 00:22:22,127 for comparison with the DNA on Genevieve's body. 468 00:22:22,127 --> 00:22:24,266 for comparison with the DNA on Genevieve's body. 469 00:22:24,266 --> 00:22:27,567 and he refused to take a polygraph test. 470 00:22:27,567 --> 00:22:29,567 Those things are huge red flags. 471 00:22:29,567 --> 00:22:33,367 So now instead of just one prime suspect, we have two. 472 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:36,300 [Markiewicz speaking] 473 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:54,667 [Parker] L.T. does give us an alibi 474 00:22:54,667 --> 00:23:00,300 and we follow up on those contacts that he tells us to make. 475 00:23:00,367 --> 00:23:05,467 Ultimately, we find that L.T. was indeed not with Genevieve 476 00:23:05,467 --> 00:23:07,467 when we believe she was murdered. 477 00:23:08,867 --> 00:23:12,266 [Markiewicz speaking] 478 00:23:18,100 --> 00:23:21,100 [narrator] It's not until five months after Ginny's murder 479 00:23:21,166 --> 00:23:22,127 that police get a new break in the case. 480 00:23:22,127 --> 00:23:23,700 that police get a new break in the case. 481 00:23:23,767 --> 00:23:26,367 Ginny's ex-fiance, Cameron Gessler, 482 00:23:26,367 --> 00:23:29,266 is arrested for assault in a bar fight, 483 00:23:29,266 --> 00:23:32,500 and homicide detectives are notified. 484 00:23:32,567 --> 00:23:35,166 Now that Cameron had been on the run for five months, 485 00:23:35,166 --> 00:23:38,600 we had a lot of information that we wanted to talk to him about. 486 00:23:39,767 --> 00:23:42,400 [Markiewicz speaking] 487 00:23:45,467 --> 00:23:47,367 [Parker] Cameron was insistent 488 00:23:47,367 --> 00:23:50,567 that though he had a troubled relationship with Genevieve, 489 00:23:50,567 --> 00:23:52,127 he had nothing to do with her murder. 490 00:23:52,127 --> 00:23:53,266 he had nothing to do with her murder. 491 00:23:54,567 --> 00:23:57,600 We ask why it was he ran from the police 492 00:23:57,667 --> 00:24:00,567 and stayed hidden for five months. 493 00:24:00,567 --> 00:24:05,467 Well, he tells us he was driving without a valid license 494 00:24:05,467 --> 00:24:08,667 and he was afraid there was a warrant for his arrest 495 00:24:08,667 --> 00:24:13,867 for having that accident and driving with a suspended license. 496 00:24:13,867 --> 00:24:17,266 [narrator] Investigators are skeptical of Cameron's explanation. 497 00:24:17,266 --> 00:24:19,000 They press him on the sleeping bag 498 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,127 found at his former address with Ginny's blood on it. 499 00:24:22,127 --> 00:24:22,767 found at his former address with Ginny's blood on it. 500 00:24:22,767 --> 00:24:26,200 It also matches the sleeping bag found with Ginny's remains inside. 501 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,567 [Parker] He explains to us that he and Genevieve had gone camping 502 00:24:31,567 --> 00:24:34,567 and that she had been on her menstrual cycle 503 00:24:34,567 --> 00:24:37,166 and she had bled inside the bag. 504 00:24:37,166 --> 00:24:41,200 Police investigators encounter these stories all the time. 505 00:24:41,266 --> 00:24:44,000 "I ran not for the reason you think. 506 00:24:44,066 --> 00:24:46,000 But for an entirely different reason." 507 00:24:46,066 --> 00:24:50,367 And often this is a story that is neither verifiable nor falsifiable, 508 00:24:50,367 --> 00:24:52,127 and as the interview goes on does the story change. 509 00:24:52,127 --> 00:24:54,166 and as the interview goes on does the story change. 510 00:24:54,166 --> 00:24:56,367 Are there holes that start to emerge? 511 00:24:56,367 --> 00:24:59,700 Uh, which might indicate that, uh, 512 00:24:59,767 --> 00:25:01,500 one lie is being used to cover another. 513 00:25:03,066 --> 00:25:08,200 Cameron does tell us that the last time he saw Ginny 514 00:25:08,266 --> 00:25:10,266 was the end of February. 515 00:25:11,166 --> 00:25:13,400 Sometime around their big argument 516 00:25:13,467 --> 00:25:16,367 that the neighbors had informed us of. 517 00:25:16,367 --> 00:25:20,867 That was actually three weeks before her body was found. 518 00:25:21,967 --> 00:25:22,127 If Cameron's story is true, 519 00:25:22,127 --> 00:25:23,467 If Cameron's story is true, 520 00:25:23,467 --> 00:25:26,500 then the DNA that we found 521 00:25:26,567 --> 00:25:29,367 under Genevieve's fingernails 522 00:25:29,367 --> 00:25:32,600 would not match his DNA. 523 00:25:32,667 --> 00:25:36,300 So that sample was taken and then it was sent away to the lab. 524 00:25:37,667 --> 00:25:40,000 [narrator] Days feel like months while police wait 525 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:41,867 to find out if it's Cameron's DNA 526 00:25:41,867 --> 00:25:44,767 that's under the fingernails of his dead ex-fiance. 527 00:25:46,300 --> 00:25:48,867 [Parker] We received the results back 528 00:25:48,867 --> 00:25:52,127 the DNA under Genevieve's fingernails 529 00:25:52,127 --> 00:25:52,400 the DNA under Genevieve's fingernails 530 00:25:52,467 --> 00:25:55,266 does not match Cameron's DNA. 531 00:25:56,800 --> 00:26:01,867 So he has to be eliminated as our prime suspect in her murder. 532 00:26:03,867 --> 00:26:06,767 [narrator] Anchorage police have hit another dead end. 533 00:26:06,767 --> 00:26:09,867 And then things go from bad to worse. 534 00:26:09,867 --> 00:26:13,567 We find the beaten body of Della Brown in a shed. 535 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:19,467 Not more than 20 miles from where Ginny's body was discovered. 536 00:26:19,467 --> 00:26:22,127 [narrator] Like Ginny, Della Brown was a young native Alaskan woman. 537 00:26:22,127 --> 00:26:23,467 [narrator] Like Ginny, Della Brown was a young native Alaskan woman. 538 00:26:23,467 --> 00:26:27,266 She's the sixth woman of color murdered in the past year. 539 00:26:27,266 --> 00:26:29,767 Her death causes police to revisit a theory 540 00:26:29,767 --> 00:26:31,700 raised earlier in the investigation. 541 00:26:33,767 --> 00:26:37,100 Do we have a serial murderer here? 542 00:26:37,100 --> 00:26:41,867 Is Genevieve's murder tied in some way to these other murders? 543 00:26:46,100 --> 00:26:48,567 [narrator] Less than six months after the body of Genevieve Tetpon, 544 00:26:48,567 --> 00:26:52,166 known as Ginny, is discovered on a roadside near Anchorage, 545 00:26:52,166 --> 00:26:54,567 another native Alaskan woman is murdered. 546 00:26:56,300 --> 00:27:00,100 [Jones] The body of Della Brown is discovered in a shed 547 00:27:00,166 --> 00:27:03,567 which is 20 miles from where Ginny's body was found. 548 00:27:04,667 --> 00:27:07,200 The obvious question is: Was it the same person? 549 00:27:07,266 --> 00:27:08,400 Did they have the same killer? 550 00:27:09,467 --> 00:27:11,567 You can imagine the terror 551 00:27:11,567 --> 00:27:13,802 that the native community especially felt. 552 00:27:13,802 --> 00:27:15,900 that the native community especially felt. 553 00:27:15,967 --> 00:27:19,667 [McKinnon] The police are under tremendous pressure to solve these cases. 554 00:27:21,166 --> 00:27:24,166 A taskforce is developed to help solve these crimes 555 00:27:24,166 --> 00:27:27,100 which brings in resources from the FBI. 556 00:27:28,100 --> 00:27:30,266 [narrator] Investigators also open a tip-line 557 00:27:30,266 --> 00:27:32,567 for information that may lead to an arrest. 558 00:27:34,166 --> 00:27:36,367 [Parker] We get a call from an individual 559 00:27:36,367 --> 00:27:39,400 who said that he saw Della Brown's body 560 00:27:39,467 --> 00:27:42,867 before it had been discovered and reported to the police. 561 00:27:44,066 --> 00:27:47,667 His friend took him to show him the body 562 00:27:47,667 --> 00:27:51,767 and claimed responsibility for her murder. 563 00:27:51,767 --> 00:27:55,867 [narrator] The name of the alleged killer is Josh Wade. 564 00:27:55,867 --> 00:27:58,967 [Parker] Josh Wade had significant criminal history 565 00:27:58,967 --> 00:28:03,266 including misconduct involving weapons charge 566 00:28:03,266 --> 00:28:04,567 that he was convicted of. 567 00:28:04,567 --> 00:28:07,667 So he's not someone who's unknown to police. 568 00:28:09,667 --> 00:28:12,166 [narrator] Could Josh also be a serial killer 569 00:28:12,166 --> 00:28:13,802 responsible for a string the murdered native Alaskan women 570 00:28:13,802 --> 00:28:15,867 responsible for a string the murdered native Alaskan women 571 00:28:15,867 --> 00:28:17,133 including Ginny? 572 00:28:18,967 --> 00:28:22,100 [Parker] We decided to use the tipster as an informant 573 00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:24,567 and wear a wire. 574 00:28:24,567 --> 00:28:28,367 And talk to Josh Wade about the other murders 575 00:28:28,367 --> 00:28:30,500 as well as Della Brown's murder. 576 00:28:32,700 --> 00:28:36,600 The tipster has some pictures of these women who had been recently murdered. 577 00:28:39,100 --> 00:28:41,400 He shows these pictures to Joshua Wade, 578 00:28:41,467 --> 00:28:43,802 and Joshua looks at 'em and starts saying, 579 00:28:43,802 --> 00:28:43,900 and Joshua looks at 'em and starts saying, 580 00:28:43,967 --> 00:28:46,967 "Oh, yeah, that one's mine. That one's mine. That one's mine." 581 00:28:48,367 --> 00:28:52,300 On September 30th, 2000, Joshua Wade is arrested 582 00:28:52,367 --> 00:28:54,266 for the murder of Della Brown. 583 00:28:55,967 --> 00:28:58,200 [narrator] Anchorage detectives take the opportunity 584 00:28:58,266 --> 00:29:00,700 to press him on Ginny's murder. 585 00:29:00,767 --> 00:29:02,967 He denies killing the young mother of four. 586 00:29:03,667 --> 00:29:05,200 He claims he's never met her. 587 00:29:06,867 --> 00:29:10,467 But Wade's DNA will tell police whether or not he's lying. 588 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,667 [Markiewicz speaking] 589 00:29:23,767 --> 00:29:25,567 [narrator] Since Ginny's body was found 590 00:29:25,567 --> 00:29:28,000 on the side of the road six months earlier, 591 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:32,767 Josh Wade is the third suspect police have cleared in her murder. 592 00:29:32,767 --> 00:29:36,800 At that point we have exhausted every lead that we have, 593 00:29:36,867 --> 00:29:40,500 and so Genevieve Tetpon's case goes cold. 594 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:43,802 [narrator] Nearly a decade passes without any new leads, 595 00:29:43,802 --> 00:29:47,266 [narrator] Nearly a decade passes without any new leads, 596 00:29:47,266 --> 00:29:51,867 but there is no statute of limitations on justice for a victim of murder, 597 00:29:51,867 --> 00:29:54,066 and a homicide case is never closed. 598 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:56,800 [Jones] Nine years 599 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,967 after Ginny's body is discovered at the bottom of this embankment, 600 00:29:59,967 --> 00:30:01,400 her case gets reopened 601 00:30:01,467 --> 00:30:04,266 by a cold case unit at the Anchorage police department. 602 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:13,802 [narrator] Investigators also take a second look at the email print outs 603 00:30:13,802 --> 00:30:17,000 [narrator] Investigators also take a second look at the email print outs 604 00:30:17,066 --> 00:30:19,166 found where Ginny's body was discovered. 605 00:30:20,667 --> 00:30:22,567 [McKinnon] With fresh eyes on the case, 606 00:30:22,567 --> 00:30:27,000 we discover that the emails are dated two months 607 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:31,467 after the break in in the vehicle from Alana Tufnell. 608 00:30:33,467 --> 00:30:37,266 So to backtrack a little, when the emails were first found with the body, 609 00:30:37,266 --> 00:30:38,400 way back in 2000, 610 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:42,100 they talked to the woman who was the recipient 611 00:30:42,100 --> 00:30:43,802 and what she said was he car had been broken into 612 00:30:43,802 --> 00:30:45,467 and what she said was he car had been broken into 613 00:30:45,467 --> 00:30:48,700 in January, 2000, two months before the murder, 614 00:30:48,767 --> 00:30:52,600 and she suggested the emails were taken during that break in, 615 00:30:52,667 --> 00:30:57,600 and somehow the person that took them ended up murdering Ginny Tetpon. 616 00:30:57,667 --> 00:31:02,166 Well, fast forward nine years, they look at those emails and guess what? 617 00:31:02,166 --> 00:31:05,266 The date on the emails was not January of 2000, 618 00:31:05,266 --> 00:31:06,900 It was March of 2000. 619 00:31:06,967 --> 00:31:09,767 The same month Ginny Tetpon was murdered. 620 00:31:11,166 --> 00:31:13,266 So it's like these emails did not exist 621 00:31:13,266 --> 00:31:13,802 when the vehicle was broke into. 622 00:31:13,802 --> 00:31:16,066 when the vehicle was broke into. 623 00:31:16,066 --> 00:31:20,367 This new discovery breathes life into the case again. 624 00:31:20,367 --> 00:31:23,867 [narrator] It also means Alana Tufnell might've been lying. 625 00:31:23,867 --> 00:31:26,266 Now detectives have to figure out why. 626 00:31:27,300 --> 00:31:28,967 We contact Alana. 627 00:31:28,967 --> 00:31:31,467 She has no idea how 628 00:31:31,467 --> 00:31:35,166 that email ended up at our crime scene. 629 00:31:35,166 --> 00:31:39,000 And that she had had never had any contact whatsoever 630 00:31:39,066 --> 00:31:41,800 with Genevieve Tetpon. 631 00:31:41,867 --> 00:31:43,802 We tell her we need to speak to the folks that had access 632 00:31:43,802 --> 00:31:45,500 We tell her we need to speak to the folks that had access 633 00:31:45,567 --> 00:31:47,767 to her vehicle at that time. 634 00:31:47,767 --> 00:31:50,567 We begin with her husband, Archer Tufnell. 635 00:31:50,567 --> 00:31:53,367 Archer is cooperative with the police. 636 00:31:53,367 --> 00:31:55,467 He is retired from the Air Force, 637 00:31:55,467 --> 00:31:58,166 he is a pastor in a church here in town, 638 00:31:58,166 --> 00:32:02,367 and he voluntarily gives us a DNA sample for comparison. 639 00:32:03,367 --> 00:32:04,867 It was a long shot. 640 00:32:04,867 --> 00:32:07,867 and Archer Tufnell's DNA is not a match 641 00:32:07,867 --> 00:32:11,100 for the DNA beneath Ginny's fingernails. 642 00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:13,802 We contact the only other member of the family 643 00:32:13,802 --> 00:32:14,667 We contact the only other member of the family 644 00:32:14,667 --> 00:32:19,100 that was here in Anchorage during the Genevieve Tetpon murder. 645 00:32:19,100 --> 00:32:23,900 And that is Alana's son, Derrick. 646 00:32:23,967 --> 00:32:28,166 Derrick was 17 years old when Genevieve Tetpon was murdered. 647 00:32:28,166 --> 00:32:30,700 He was also the captain of the football team, 648 00:32:30,767 --> 00:32:33,800 he did volunteer work for his church. 649 00:32:33,867 --> 00:32:36,200 He also was a straight-A student. 650 00:32:36,266 --> 00:32:38,166 He had no criminal history. 651 00:32:38,166 --> 00:32:42,367 So he is a person that it just doesn't seem likely 652 00:32:42,367 --> 00:32:43,802 would be responsible for the murder of a woman and the dumping of her body. 653 00:32:43,802 --> 00:32:47,000 would be responsible for the murder of a woman and the dumping of her body. 654 00:32:48,567 --> 00:32:51,467 He agrees to cooperate with police, 655 00:32:51,467 --> 00:32:55,567 and tells us that he has no knowledge 656 00:32:55,567 --> 00:32:58,166 of this woman, Genevieve Tetpon, 657 00:32:58,166 --> 00:33:00,467 or how she may have been murdered. 658 00:33:01,367 --> 00:33:05,100 It all changes when we ask him 659 00:33:05,100 --> 00:33:08,166 to give us voluntarily a DNA sample. 660 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:10,200 [Markiewicz speaking] 661 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,800 [McKinnon] He's 27 years old, he lives on his own, 662 00:33:18,867 --> 00:33:21,100 and he doesn't want to give us his DNA sample. 663 00:33:22,266 --> 00:33:27,700 That raises major red flags in this investigation. 664 00:33:27,767 --> 00:33:31,467 [Jones] The suspicion level is going up and up and up. 665 00:33:34,967 --> 00:33:37,166 [narrator] Nine years after the body of Genevieve Tetpon, 666 00:33:37,166 --> 00:33:41,467 known as Ginny, is discovered dumped in a roadside ditch, 667 00:33:41,467 --> 00:33:44,767 investigators' suspicions are raised when 27 year old 668 00:33:44,767 --> 00:33:47,567 Derrick Torian refuses a DNA test. 669 00:33:49,367 --> 00:33:51,166 Derrick becomes cagey. 670 00:33:51,166 --> 00:33:52,967 He doesn't want to talk to us. 671 00:33:52,967 --> 00:33:54,967 [narrator] But police don't have to wait for Derrick 672 00:33:54,967 --> 00:33:57,500 to talk in order to move forward. 673 00:33:57,567 --> 00:34:01,266 Detectives already know he's the only one in his family who had access 674 00:34:01,266 --> 00:34:03,111 to the printouts in his mother's car at the time of the murder 675 00:34:03,111 --> 00:34:04,400 to the printouts in his mother's car at the time of the murder 676 00:34:04,467 --> 00:34:06,000 that has not been cleared. 677 00:34:08,700 --> 00:34:13,166 This allows us to approach a judge and get a search warrant 678 00:34:13,166 --> 00:34:15,166 for Derrick's DNA. 679 00:34:16,900 --> 00:34:20,166 With the search warrant in hand, we're able to go 680 00:34:20,166 --> 00:34:22,767 to Derrick's workplace. 681 00:34:22,767 --> 00:34:27,367 He's a coach on football team in a local high school. 682 00:34:27,367 --> 00:34:30,867 We serve that search warrant and take that DNA sample, 683 00:34:30,867 --> 00:34:33,111 and again it is sent away for analysis. 684 00:34:33,111 --> 00:34:34,367 and again it is sent away for analysis. 685 00:34:35,667 --> 00:34:37,166 [Jones] In the course of the investigation, 686 00:34:37,166 --> 00:34:40,266 they also talked to people who had known Derrick 687 00:34:40,266 --> 00:34:42,667 at East High, back in 2000, 688 00:34:42,667 --> 00:34:44,600 around the time of the Ginny Tetpon murder. 689 00:34:44,667 --> 00:34:48,166 [narrator] In 2000, derrick was only 17, 690 00:34:48,166 --> 00:34:50,100 and an outstanding football player. 691 00:34:51,367 --> 00:34:54,667 We learned from a fellow student of Derrick Torian's 692 00:34:54,667 --> 00:34:58,467 that Derrick was injured while he was in high school, 693 00:34:58,467 --> 00:35:01,400 and that he had to use crutches. 694 00:35:01,467 --> 00:35:03,111 The name of one of the football coaches at that time was Higgins. 695 00:35:03,111 --> 00:35:05,667 The name of one of the football coaches at that time was Higgins. 696 00:35:05,667 --> 00:35:10,066 That would match the name that was found on that crutch 697 00:35:10,066 --> 00:35:12,200 at the Genevieve Tetpon murder scene. 698 00:35:13,467 --> 00:35:15,467 [narrator] That connects Derrick to the crime scene, 699 00:35:15,467 --> 00:35:17,467 but doesn't prove he killed Ginny. 700 00:35:18,767 --> 00:35:21,200 We need more information to build a solid case. 701 00:35:21,266 --> 00:35:25,400 We ask Derrick if he would take a polygraph examination. 702 00:35:26,266 --> 00:35:27,433 He agreed to do so. 703 00:35:28,567 --> 00:35:32,967 The examiner says that Derrick is being deceitful 704 00:35:32,967 --> 00:35:33,111 about Genevieve Tetpon's murder. 705 00:35:33,111 --> 00:35:36,667 about Genevieve Tetpon's murder. 706 00:35:36,667 --> 00:35:40,767 [narrator] The test results are a good sign the detectives are on the right track. 707 00:35:40,767 --> 00:35:43,200 But to charge Derrick with Ginny's murder, 708 00:35:43,266 --> 00:35:46,567 they'll need something concrete that ties him directly to her. 709 00:35:47,367 --> 00:35:49,667 We get the DNA results back. 710 00:35:49,667 --> 00:35:52,100 They show a positive correlation between 711 00:35:52,166 --> 00:35:54,500 the DNA from Derrick Torian 712 00:35:54,567 --> 00:35:57,367 and the DNA which was taken 713 00:35:57,367 --> 00:36:00,667 from underneath Genevieve Tetpon's fingernails. 714 00:36:02,100 --> 00:36:03,111 He's our guy. 715 00:36:03,111 --> 00:36:03,166 He's our guy. 716 00:36:04,266 --> 00:36:06,467 [narrator] A decade after Ginny's murder, 717 00:36:06,467 --> 00:36:09,567 Anchorage police finally know who killed her, 718 00:36:09,567 --> 00:36:13,066 27 year old Derrick Torian. 719 00:36:13,066 --> 00:36:15,367 Now it's time to go arrest Derrick. 720 00:36:15,367 --> 00:36:18,367 Turns out he's left Alaska. 721 00:36:18,367 --> 00:36:23,767 [Parker] Derrick Torian knew his DNA would show up at that crime scene, 722 00:36:23,767 --> 00:36:29,166 and I'm certain that's why he thinks he can hide out somewhere else. 723 00:36:29,166 --> 00:36:31,500 [narrator] Anchorage police send out a BOLO, 724 00:36:31,567 --> 00:36:33,111 a "Be On the Lookout" for Derrick Torian 725 00:36:33,111 --> 00:36:33,567 a "Be On the Lookout" for Derrick Torian 726 00:36:33,567 --> 00:36:36,066 to law enforcement agencies across North America. 727 00:36:38,100 --> 00:36:40,867 After questioning Derrick's friends and family, 728 00:36:40,867 --> 00:36:43,867 they're able to find him 3,000 miles away 729 00:36:43,867 --> 00:36:45,567 in Spearfish, South Dakota. 730 00:36:47,066 --> 00:36:50,367 Derrick Torian is arrested and transported to Anchorage 731 00:36:50,367 --> 00:36:54,567 where he's charged with first and second degree murder in the death of Ginny Tetpon. 732 00:36:56,767 --> 00:37:01,266 Nearly ten years after the mother of four's body was dumped by the road, 733 00:37:01,266 --> 00:37:03,111 Derrick tells police his version of events that led to Ginny's murder. 734 00:37:03,111 --> 00:37:06,066 Derrick tells police his version of events that led to Ginny's murder. 735 00:37:06,066 --> 00:37:09,166 Finally, police can piece together what may have happened 736 00:37:09,166 --> 00:37:11,867 during the 24 hours prior to Ginny's murder. 737 00:37:13,567 --> 00:37:16,600 [Parker] Late on the night of March 21st, 738 00:37:16,667 --> 00:37:19,266 Genevieve entered the pizza parlor 739 00:37:19,266 --> 00:37:21,500 where Derrick Torian was a night manager. 740 00:37:22,767 --> 00:37:25,867 His story is that Genevieve Tetpon 741 00:37:25,867 --> 00:37:29,000 was intoxicated and he took pity on her. 742 00:37:29,066 --> 00:37:30,100 He gave her a blanket. 743 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:32,567 He gave her a crutch. 744 00:37:32,567 --> 00:37:33,111 And then he tried to escort her out of the pizza parlor 745 00:37:33,111 --> 00:37:36,467 And then he tried to escort her out of the pizza parlor 746 00:37:36,467 --> 00:37:38,467 which was then closed. 747 00:37:38,467 --> 00:37:43,066 During that time, they had an argument and she scratched him 748 00:37:43,066 --> 00:37:47,100 and that is why his DNA ended up under her fingernails. 749 00:37:49,367 --> 00:37:52,000 She comes back in a little bit later 750 00:37:52,066 --> 00:37:56,266 and discovers him and his partner, Louis de Jesus, 751 00:37:56,266 --> 00:37:59,867 in the process of preparing cocaine. 752 00:37:59,867 --> 00:38:03,111 He claimed at that time that he and de Jesus were drug dealers. 753 00:38:03,111 --> 00:38:04,800 He claimed at that time that he and de Jesus were drug dealers. 754 00:38:06,467 --> 00:38:08,667 He was worried because she had seen them 755 00:38:08,667 --> 00:38:11,800 in the process of dealing their drugs, 756 00:38:11,867 --> 00:38:14,000 and that his life would be ruined. 757 00:38:14,066 --> 00:38:17,967 He would lose his scholarship to college if he were found out. 758 00:38:19,567 --> 00:38:24,367 So he panicked and told Louis de Jesus to take care of Genevieve 759 00:38:24,367 --> 00:38:27,600 while he went into the office. 760 00:38:27,667 --> 00:38:30,467 [narrator] Derrick claims that while he was out of the room, 761 00:38:30,467 --> 00:38:33,111 De Jesus stabbed Ginny more than 30 times. 762 00:38:33,111 --> 00:38:33,367 De Jesus stabbed Ginny more than 30 times. 763 00:38:37,667 --> 00:38:39,367 So when Derrick returns from the office, 764 00:38:39,367 --> 00:38:43,867 he sees Ginny is on the floor, covered in blood. 765 00:38:44,667 --> 00:38:46,467 She's dead. 766 00:38:46,467 --> 00:38:48,767 [Jones] In the early hours of March 22nd, 767 00:38:48,767 --> 00:38:52,400 they throw her body from the embankment, 768 00:38:52,467 --> 00:38:55,300 along with other items from the trunk of the car. 769 00:38:56,567 --> 00:39:00,266 Derrick confesses to having helped Louis de Jesus 770 00:39:00,266 --> 00:39:03,111 to dispose of the body using his car 771 00:39:03,111 --> 00:39:03,867 to dispose of the body using his car 772 00:39:03,867 --> 00:39:06,367 That's how his mother's garbage ended up at the scene. 773 00:39:06,367 --> 00:39:08,367 That's how the crutch ended up at the scene. 774 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:12,567 [narrator] Following the murder, Derrick resumes his life 775 00:39:12,567 --> 00:39:14,867 as a high school student and football star. 776 00:39:16,166 --> 00:39:18,600 So there were clearly two sides to Derrick Torian. 777 00:39:18,667 --> 00:39:21,667 One was the model student and star athlete, 778 00:39:21,667 --> 00:39:24,900 and the other was the guy who was dealing drugs. 779 00:39:24,967 --> 00:39:27,767 Raises the question that comes up in a lot of murders. 780 00:39:27,767 --> 00:39:29,967 Who was Derrick Torian? 781 00:39:29,967 --> 00:39:32,767 [narrator] Although Derrick's story sounds credible, 782 00:39:32,767 --> 00:39:33,111 investigators have no way to corroborate it with evidence. 783 00:39:33,111 --> 00:39:36,000 investigators have no way to corroborate it with evidence. 784 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:44,000 And the only other witness who could confirm or refute Derrick's story is dead. 785 00:39:45,266 --> 00:39:47,767 It's a very convenient thing for him 786 00:39:47,767 --> 00:39:51,000 because Louis de Jesus was murdered 787 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,567 shortly after Genevieve's murder in a shooting. 788 00:39:55,467 --> 00:39:56,567 [Markiewicz speaking] 789 00:40:04,767 --> 00:40:06,867 [narrator] So the only witness left alive 790 00:40:06,867 --> 00:40:10,400 to explain how Derrick's DNA got under Ginny's nails 791 00:40:10,467 --> 00:40:11,567 is Derrick himself. 792 00:40:12,667 --> 00:40:15,000 Because of the difficulty in 793 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:19,100 prosecuting a case beyond a reasonable doubt of first degree murder, 794 00:40:19,100 --> 00:40:22,600 the prosecution here in Anchorage offered Derrick 795 00:40:22,667 --> 00:40:26,667 a plea of manslaughter instead of first degree murder. 796 00:40:27,867 --> 00:40:31,500 That is the plea that he ultimately took. 797 00:40:31,567 --> 00:40:33,111 [narrator] Derrick Torian pleads guilty to aggravated manslaughter, 798 00:40:33,111 --> 00:40:35,467 [narrator] Derrick Torian pleads guilty to aggravated manslaughter, 799 00:40:35,467 --> 00:40:38,166 and is sentenced to 15 years in prison. 800 00:40:39,667 --> 00:40:42,767 [Jones] How does Ginny Tetpon's feel of this? 801 00:40:42,767 --> 00:40:46,867 Some of them think it's too sweet a deal for Derrick Torian. 802 00:40:46,867 --> 00:40:51,000 But her mom thinks it'll just be nice to get it over with, 803 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,166 and not have the family dragged through the trauma again. 804 00:40:55,567 --> 00:40:59,100 For me as a police officer, this is a bittersweet victory. 805 00:40:59,166 --> 00:41:03,111 We've found the person responsible for this heinous crime, 806 00:41:03,111 --> 00:41:03,266 We've found the person responsible for this heinous crime, 807 00:41:03,266 --> 00:41:05,867 but Derrick Torian did not receive 808 00:41:05,867 --> 00:41:10,066 anywhere near the sentence he should have received. 809 00:41:12,166 --> 00:41:13,367 [Jones] It was a tragedy. 810 00:41:13,367 --> 00:41:15,567 You know, I mean, you had this lovely young mother 811 00:41:15,567 --> 00:41:18,467 who had poor kids that she loved and who loved her, 812 00:41:18,467 --> 00:41:21,967 and her life was just cut short unfairly, 813 00:41:21,967 --> 00:41:25,867 and perhaps the most tragic element of it 814 00:41:25,867 --> 00:41:28,500 is it was all so pointless and random.