Jerry Westrom
Appearances
48 Hours
The Footprint
Do you have any idea why your DNA would be in that building, your blood would be in that building? No. My blood was in the building? Yeah. If you found my blood somewhere, all I can think of is that I must have fallen down somewhere.
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The Footprint
He easily volunteered his DNA. He also allowed himself his footprints to be taken. Then his footprints were compared to the bloody footprints in Jeanne's bedroom.
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The Footprint
The forensic genealogist indicated that she had a match, potentially two brothers here in Minnesota.
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The Footprint
He was living north of Minneapolis-St. Paul, that he was working for a company up in St. Cloud, Minnesota area. He'd been a businessman.
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The Footprint
Had a Facebook account that we could follow. He was leading a seemingly normal family life.
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The Footprint
Did he have any history of violent crimes? No apparent criminal history involving violent crime.
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The Footprint
Well, it gave some pause that that level of violence and that type of crime, we kind of expected it would be somebody that maybe had been arrested multiple times. So yes, that does give a little pause.
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The Footprint
We needed to obtain DNA from Jerry in order to compare it to the unknown DNA from the scene.
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The Footprint
Westrom went out to the lobby concession stand and made a food order. We watched him sit at the table and eat his order. And when he finished, he took a napkin and he wiped his mouth.
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The Footprint
I was gloved. I just reached down and got the container and we bagged it up for evidence.
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The Footprint
And the following morning, we went to the jail with Minneapolis crime lab personnel, and they obtained his footprints.
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The Footprint
Investigators immediately looked at whether Arthur Gray was involved in the murder.
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The Footprint
Arthur Gray, as a resident of that apartment, it makes sense that his hairs would be throughout the bedroom.
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The Footprint
He had a really solid alibi that he was out of town that weekend, that was corroborated by others.
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The Footprint
There were multiple people whose footprints were compared to the footprints that were left in Jeannie's apartment. You could see that in the case file that a lot of effort was put in attempting to solve Jeannie's case.