David Muir investigates how cutting-edge forensic DNA technology has led to long-awaited justice in two murder cases that remained unsolved for decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the murder cases discussed in this episode?
Tonight, we take you inside two cases, two young women both brutally murdered in their homes, the killers in each case evading police for decades. In one case, a mother just 19 years old, she was engaged to be married.
Her fiance, who was about to marry her, adopt her daughter, he gets home and he immediately notices something is wrong. There's blood smeared on the stairway. The killer had attacked her in the bedroom?
There was handprints of her trying to hold the door closed, and she just wasn't strong enough.
Another case in Texas, the beloved teacher, her whole future ahead of her.
Drove in to Memphis.
She just started a new school. She was loving teaching her students. She was in a very good place.
You remember walking in and what you discovered?
I remember walking into the bathroom and seeing her body on the floor.
She'd been handcuffed.
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Chapter 2: How did police initially approach these cold cases?
Today, the family is together remembering Kathy and the anniversary of her death.
It's hard.
Real hard. I felt a certain point that I wasn't sure that they would ever find out.
Probably right there before she died.
It's been 25 years, but remembering hasn't gotten any easier for David Swartz.
I think, yeah, probably the worst thing for me is the why. Why? Why did it have to happen like, something like that?
When you look at these kinds of cases around the country, there is generally an investigator or a detective who never gives up.
Yes.
And in this case, it was Jeffrey Middleton.
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