[9] After the event, she asked her friend and twirling squad teammate if she wanted to join her on a shopping trip to the Westdale Mall, which had recently opened, and where Martinko worked. Jeremy Lynn (born June 12, 1963), better known by the ring name Jerry Lynn, is an American retired professional wrestler currently signed with All Elite Wrestling as a producer and coach. This revealed everything, and Burns was ultimately declared guilty of first-degree murder. Murderer Jerry Lynn Burns was not caught for almost 40 years. Add newsletters@thegazette.comto your contacts. [7] Eventually, more than 125 people would have their DNA swabbed and compared against samples taken from the scene. In 2006, a cold case investigator discovered unidentified blood, presumably belonging to the killer, while he was reviewing case files. [18][19], Controversy arose five months after the murder, after a woman who was driving by the mall parking lot in the early hours of December 20 came forward with information. And he had the daunting task of trying to figure out who that could be, armed only with an unidentified sample of blood DNA. With genetic genealogy, an unknown killer's DNA from a crime scene can be identified through his or her family members, who voluntarily submit their DNA to a genealogy database. Holst said that in reviewing Burns' computer, he found hundreds of searches and website visits - a pattern that happened several times a week. In his video interview with police right before his arrest, Burns, unsolicited, mentioned the name of Jodi Huisentruit as he was being questioned about the Martinko case. 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[34], On February 24, 2020, after three hours of deliberation, the jury found Jerry Lynn Burns guilty of first degree murder of Michelle Martinko. The murder of Michelle Martinko in the parking lot of Cedar Rapids' Westdale Mall has some eerie connections to the Huisentruit case. I couldnt have said it better myself, and Im the podcaster! 19, 2018. But then Denlinger's supervisor, who had been listening to the recorded interview from across the street with other officers, sent Denlinger text message telling him to arrest Burns. [31] The defense argued that DNA evidence had been mishandled,[31] and that different articles of clothing from the scene should not have been stored together in one evidence bag. [20], On June 19, 1980, police released a composite sketch of a man believed to have killed Martinko, which they formed from descriptions provided by two witnesses under hypnosis. Denlinger recorded him using a camera that was hidden inside a coffee mug. I've been reading up on this case and was wondering if they profiled this guy? While that tip did not yield any new leads, it did cause Det. The defense also requested the trial be moved out of Linn County based on the amount of attention the case had received over the past four decades, as well as "pervasive and prejudicial pretrial publicity". Jerry was born May 22, 1944, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Fred Richard Lynn and Mary Ellen Manning and passed away on July 10, 2022. Allison says Burns threatened him one day after a winning streak. [2], On December 19, 2018, exactly 39 years after Martinko's murder, Burns was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. At the time of arrest, Burns had his own power-coating company called Advanced Coating Concepts. But where is this cold-blooded killer now? Jerry Burns. Burns argues the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress where the warrantless extraction of his DNA profile violated his rights under the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution and article I . Please logout and login again. Feb. 1, 2019 | The Des Moines Register. Now in his late 60s, Burns is currently behind bars and will stay there till he dies. County, FL. Allison also recounted a time when Burns tried to tear down a cellmate's bunk bed because he was snoring too loudly. Place of rest will be in the Dickson County Memorial Gardens. It wasn't until decades after the killing that investigators began to link the emotions of a motive with the science of DNA. [9] She was fully dressed, and the medical examiner determined she had not been sexually assaulted. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette). Martinko then went to the mall alone, carrying $180 and intending to finalize the purchase of a new winter coat that was on layaway. Ken and Don were not a match but Jerry Burns' DNA was a match, to an almost perfect scientific certainty. He began working with Parabon NanoLabs, now a leading company helping police solve crimes through genetic tracing. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. He stated that Burns' DNA could have been at the scene due to secondary transfer (such as skin cells transferring to an article of clothing when someone brushes up against another person), although he clarified that it was not his opinion that this was the case with Burns' DNA. "That threw us all off," Allison said about the incident. During the trials, Burns was found to contradict his own statements. During the investigation, the police assumed that there were personal motives involved in the murder due to the nature of Martinko's stab wounds. Reporter covering state and federal courts. [22][12] From that, police were able to build a partial DNA profile. In a press conference during which the new image was shared, a former classmate of Martinko exclaimed that the face looked like another one of their classmates, but that classmate had been investigated and was cleared based on a DNA swab several years before. timing. According to Reusse, Burns would generally be a bit more careful with his language during a press conference or whenever there were cameras . Vikings Ring of Honor Coach Jerry Burns passed away Wednesday at the age of 94. God finally won. [3] The brothers were placed under surveillance, and investigators began to attempt to collect their DNA secretly. After her parents reported her missing at 2 a.m., police discovered the teen's body in her vehicle about four hours later. She claimed to have seen two cars in the lot, one of which was Martinko's, and a man standing next to the open driver's side door of Martinko's car. But the software he used allowed him to review history and activity only to January 2018. Investigators used the blood samples to develop a partial male DNA profile. In her ruling, Judge Fae Hoover said the . I am a brokenhearted mother.. They . [11] They described a white man in his late teens or early 20s, around six feet tall and weighing 165175 pounds, with brown eyes and curly brown hair. Janelle Stonebraker, Michelle's older sister, thinks that by fighting so vehemently that the suspect wounded himself and left his DNA behind, Michelle contributed to the investigation into her own murder. Dave Franzman, a longtime reporter at ABC Cedar Rapids affiliate KCRG, Michelle Martinko's high school friend, Elizabeth Laymon, told The Des Moines Register. She was seen inside the mall by friends and coworkers because Martinko worked in the mall. Police had searched his computer after arresting him, and found a history of searches pertaining to nefarious subjects including the murder of blonde women, and pornographic matter involving blonde women. In 2017, Cedar Rapids police said they reached out to Parabon NanoLabs to help build a suspect profile based on the crime scene DNA. "I am happy Michelle finally gets justice.". Allison said he and Burns had a good relationship at first but it eventually turned sour. Jerry Lynn Burns will raise two child. "I am thrilled for her sister, Janelle, and wish her parents were alive to see this," Michelle Martinko's high school friend, Elizabeth Laymon, told The Des Moines Register. Visitation with the family will be Monday April 10th from 4 to 8 PM and on. This "tragic case" had been "haunting this community for 39 years," Cedar Rapids Police Chief Wayne Jerman said Wednesday. Burns told the investigator about 25 times to test him, Denlinger said. Burns' wife, Patricia . 'If I was there, I don't know, Burns told Denlinger. The black dress Michelle Martinko was wearing when she was murdered was sent to the lab for testing. Jerry Lynn Burns is accused of the 1979 cold case murder of Michelle Martinko in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. But he said he and another investigator had no plans to arrest Burns that day. Over 40 years ago, teenager Michelle Martinko was stabbed to death outside a mall in Cedar Rapids . While these occurrences sounded suspicious, the police didn't believe Burns had anything to do with them. Martinko's father Albert and mother Janet died in 1995 and 1998 respectively. This is what eventually helped authorities identify the culprit - Jerry Lynn Burns. Supreme Court No. In fact, his father Harvey, now 85, had been one of the original officers on the case 40 years earlier. [14] Burns's cousin, Brian Burns, went missing on December 19, 2013 and has not been found. Despite being known as a professional, Burns arrest got people talking about his family. [16] Based on cash found in Martinko's purse, police concluded that she had not been robbed. . [11], In the mid-1980s, Martinko's father filed a lawsuit against the owners of the Westdale Mall and claimed negligence in not providing "reasonable security" on the night of the murder. CEDAR RAPIDS - Police investigators couldn't find evidence that Jerry Burns and Michelle Martinko knew each other. On April 5, 1975, Pat was united in marriage to Jerry Lynn Burns at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Manchester. She never had any school problems. The case got nationwide media attention but has remained an unsolved mystery for more than 25 years. [11][18] In the year after the killing, the number of people interviewed by police reached the hundreds, and up to 30 people were interviewed under hypnosis. Teen Michelle Martinko was stabbed to death in 1979. Police looked at numerous suspects during the initial investigation, including a man who raped a woman at knifepoint and later died while in prison for that crime, but DNA testing ruled him out. Jerry Burns stands with his lawyer Leon Spies (right) during a recess in the continuation of a suppression hearing for evidence in the case of Burns of Manchester at the Linn County Courthouse in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. DNA Profiling is a modern investigative technology used to compare criminal suspects' profiles to DNA evidence so as to assess the likelihood of their involvement in the crime. Jerry Burns. Michelle Martinko, Kennedy High School yearbook photo, 1979. In earlier testimony, Matthew Denlinger, a Cedar Rapids police investigator who testified last week, was recalled to testify about Burns' interview with police Dec. 19, 2018. December . Denlinger told him authorities would come back to talk to him after they got the results of the DNA test. When Burns, of Manchester, Iowa, was questioned, he "denied committing the offense but could offer no plausible explanation why his DNA would be found at the crime scene," police said. ", Whoever the killer was, he had come prepared. Jerry Burns mentioned Jodi by name while speaking to an investigator shortly before his arrest. Police said they were able to connect Burns to the case with DNA evidence. Investigators struggled over the years to connect DNA collected at the scene to a suspect. [25] He refused to voluntarily provide a sample of DNA, but was compelled to do so with a search warrant. Burns is accused of killing Cedar Rapids teenager Michelle Martinko in 1979. At the time of her death, police had found Martinko stabbed to death in her car in a local mall parking lot. Creighton Waters said the disgraced legal scion, 54, faced a 'gathering storm' of financial ruin that drove him to kill Maggie and Paul at the family's hunting estate in Moselle, South Carolina . According to court documents, a judge has ruled internet search history from the man accused in a 1979 murder will not be able to be used during trial. [24], In 2018, the DNA phenotyping company took the data they had collected the year before and entered it into GEDmatch, a public genealogy website that has been used by law enforcement to solve other cold cases, most famously that of the Golden State Killer. The prosecution did not resist either request, and the trial was rescheduled for February 10, 2020 in Scott County. Burns said when presented with the rendering. After the arrest this week of Jerry Burns in the 1979 killing of 18-year-old Michelle Martinko, an Iowa city is left shocked, saddened, and skeptical. . On Wednesday, after weeks of "planning and strategizing," investigators interviewed and arrested Burns for first-degree murder, Jerman said. What we know about Jerry Burns and the woman he's accused of killing 40 years earlier Dec 19, 2019/ updated Feb 17, 2020 Four decades ago, 18-year-old Michelle Marie Martinko was found stabbed to death in the family's car in the parking lot of a Cedar Rapids mall. Homerline, a soft-spoken woman who enjoyed teaching Sunday School, did everything possible to avoid attention. To learn the entire story of Michelle Martinko's murder, watch Dateline: Unforgettable at 10 pm on Oxygen 79. The police considered the murder personal in nature based on the manner of death, according to Little Village magazine. 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Denlinger began contacting genealogy companies for help in trying to find a family tree that could lead to the person whose DNA matched that found at the crime scene. When asked that question by "48 Hours," Denlinger replied, "I don't know the answer to that. "I cried a lot and I looked out windows all hours of the night," Martinko's mother, Janet Martinko, told Cedar Rapids' CBS station in 1987. Parabon. Derek Chauvin's ex-wife . New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, Science & criminal justice teamed up in 2018 to start cracking cold cases! Thirty-nine years to the day after she was killed, a suspect was charged thanks to DNA and genetic genealogy. It goes beyond the simple news reporting of case solved using genetic genealogy. The podcast explores who these perpetrators are, possible motives and features interviews with investigators who are willing to talk because the cases have already been resolved in court. The 55 year-old Delaware County man was last seen on December 19, 2013 - 34 years to the day of Martinko's murder. State of Iowa. . On August 7, 2020, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. Hernando . [2] The police received more than 100 tips following the release of the new images. Rumors began to circulate about the crime. [33] Prosecutors called a criminalist to contradict the defense's witness; the criminalist said that the storage of Martinko's clothing was not unusual. The company created a family tree starting with four sets of the woman's great-great-grandparents and reported that the killer was most likely descended from one of those couples. Later that day, her body was discovered in her family's car. He is survived by his wife, Lydia Lynn; his oldest son, Scott Lynn; and his ch [39], Last edited on 20 February 2023, at 04:20, "Michelle Martinko's murder 'haunted' the Cedar Rapids community for 40 years. Law enforcement said Burns hasnt been able to explain why his DNA would be at the crime scene, nor does he remember committing the crime. Denlinger said no. Kayla Lemieux, the transgender high school teacher in Canada, has been put on paid leave after pictures emerged of her dressed as a man proving she does not wear the prosthetics all the time. Investigators also showed Burns two renderings DNA labs had supplied them of possible suspects; he questioned their likeness to him. GEDmatch returned one person who shared DNA markers with the suspect in Martinko's murder, and it determined her to be likely the killer's second cousin once removed. Yet they had a DNA match linking the Manchester man to the Cedar Rapids teenager, slain in 1979 outside the Westdale Mall. [1][5][6], Michelle Marie Martinko (October 6, 1961 December 19, 1979) was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Burns is accused of murdering Michelle Martinko in 1979. [28] The defense also requested that evidence pertaining to Burns' cell phone browser history be suppressed. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Linn. She had goals for herself, things she wanted to do with her life, and she would write them down and achieve them., I dont know if Ill ever get over this, Mrs. Martinko added. State prosecutors also showed a video interview they secretly recorded in 2018, after matching Burns' DNA to the crime scene and getting a search warrant to obtain further DNA. [7] Martinko was the younger of two daughters of Albert F. Martinko and Janet Martinko (ne Zillig). Through his research, he discovered that a woman named Brandy Jennings had uploaded her DNA to a website service to trace her own family history. On December 19, 2018, he was arrested in Manchester, Iowa, on the 39th anniversary of Michelle's death. [4] Documents concluded that fewer than one in 100 billion people would match the DNA profile. [21] Psychics were also consulted early on in the investigation. Burns was read his Miranda rights and taken to the police department. Jerry Burns on Trial AP Jerry Burns of Manchester, Iowa, is led into the courtroom during closing arguments for his trial at the Scott County Courthouse in Davenport, Iowa on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. Jerry Lynn Burns, 64, was apprehended and charged with first-degree murder after authorities matched his DNA with blood samples found on the Martinko family car's gear shift knob. Authorities pored over 300 pages of internet search terms and 400 pages of website history, according to court testimony Thursday - almost all of it involving blonde females and most web searches starting with queries about blonde strangulation. Burns pleaded not guilty in 2019 and when his trial was supposed to begin in October of that year, his defense team requested additional time to review fresh pieces of evidence and gather witnesses. "That was big, national news," said Denlinger. 1, 2023 9:40 am7h ago, Crime and Courts Feb. 28, 2023 5:22 pm23h ago, Crime and Courts Feb. 28, 2023 5:19 pm23h ago, Jeff Linder High School Basketball 21m ago21m ago. Even though the police were tipped over 200 times in the weeks following the murder, the case eventually grew cold as investigations stretched on. Visitation will be held from 5 According to the investigator, "Burns showed almost no emotion during the interview, even when he was eventually told he was being arrested. Your login session has expired. Jerry Lynn Burns was arrested in the 1979 killing of Michelle Martinko. Jerry Lynn Burns faces a first degree murder charge in the killing of Michelle Martinko. Holst said he didn't, but department officials and First Assistant Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks did consult an expert who specialized in sex offender assessment and treatment to explain what this evidence indicates in this case. See Photos. After reading about the Golden State Killer case in 2018, in which serial killer Joseph James DeAngelo was finally caught through a long trail of DNA, Denlinger had an epiphany: perhaps he could use that same new technique to solve the Martinko case. The prosecution emphasized the unlikelihood of the DNA evidence matching someone other than the person who left it at the scene. The judge ordered a $5 million cash bond, and Burns is set to return to court for a preliminary hearing on Dec. 28. The Cedar Rapids teenager was found stabbed to death in her parents car parked at Westdale Mall. They had investigated more than 100 people over the years, and all were dead ends. People named Jerry Burns. He then contacted a member of a third branch, and a DNA test determined that they were first cousins with the killer. Her killer will go undetected for almost 40yrs! 39 years later after the murder, a person named Jerry Lynn Burns was arrested in Manchester, Iowa, and charged with first-degree murder. On May 29, 2020, Burns' attorneys filed a motion asking for a new trial, claiming his constitutional and . Let's uncover where he is now in this article. On February 24, 2020, after three hours of deliberation, the jury found Jerry Lynn Burns guilty of first-degree murder. "Burnsie was laying siege to New Orleans," said Lynn. Jerry Burns appeals his conviction for murder in the first degree. Denlinger does NOT believe Burns is responsible for Jodi Huisentruit - rather that he admired/fantasized about whatever happened to her. He was preceded in death by his wife of 50 years, Joan C. Plum Merriner, who passed away on January 4, 2019. 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