Short0:37San Francisco Bay Area, California (multiple crime scenes including Benicia, Vallejo, Napa County, and San Francisco)Murder of Michelle Martinko (Cedar Rapids 1979)
SOLVEDWestdale Mall parking lot, Cedar Rapids, Iowa0:29
Michelle Martinko, an 18-year-old Cedar Rapids, Iowa high school senior, was stabbed to death in her family's car in a mall parking lot on December 19, 1979. Exactly thirty-nine years after the murder, police arrested Jerry Lynn Burns. Send this to someone from Cedar Rapids.
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A senior left a Cedar Rapids choir banquet for the mall. She never came home. Michelle Martinko was found inside her family's Buick. Stabbed to death. Her parents died before DNA from a discarded straw identified a suspect. Exactly thirty-nine years after the murder, police arrested Jerry Lynn Burns. Can a conviction ever bring peace after four decades? The full case file is on casepin dot org.
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