A few days later, the Saints fell. 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. [2], Martinko's father, Albert, died in 1995. Denlinger had found the needle in the haystack. The Realm, a group of 34 people. The majority of the search activity and history on Burns' computer was sexually graphic and more 'deviant in nature, said Holst, who investigates sex crimes and internet crimes against children. The first piece of progress in the case came in 2006 when a sample of the suspect's DNA from Michelle Martinko's car was submitted to a lab for processing, police said. Jerry Lynn Burns, 64, was charged with first-degree murder and is scheduled to appear Thursday in Linn County Court. The results were entered into the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), the national DNA database, but no matches were found. The murder of Michelle Martinko occurred in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on December 19, 1979. Convicted murderer Jerry Burns, 66, is scheduled to be sentenced Friday in the 1979 murder of Michelle Martinko, 18. His first wife, Patricia, died by suicide in 2008. ", Whoever the killer was, he had come prepared. At the time of her death, police had found Martinko stabbed to death in her car in a local mall parking lot. 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". He grew up in Manchester, Iowa, and graduated from West Delaware High School in 1972. Prosecutors played a covertly recorded interview that investigators conducted with Jerry Lynn Burns in December of 2018. The sketch looked like a man in his 20s, weighing 165-175 pounds, and standing at around 6 feet. Jerry Lynn Burns' DNA sample was collected from a plastic straw he drank soda with. Jerry Burns. Jerry Burns mentioned Jodi by name while speaking to an investigator shortly before his arrest. See Photos. Jerry Burns enters the courtroom in 2020 (Image via We Are Iowa) Burns was born in Manchester, Iowa in 1953 and graduated from West . "I was speechless," Denlinger says, recalling the moment the lab told him the results. Denlinger said no. Currently, in his late 60s, he is going to spend the rest of his days behind bars. After her parents reported her missing at 2 a.m., police discovered the teen's body in her vehicle about four hours later. "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. 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. [10] Police considered the killing to be "personal in nature" based on the number and location of stab wounds. "[2] When asked if he had killed someone that night in 1979, Burns repeatedly told investigators, "Test the DNA". 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. Subscribe to the Public Safety newsletter. Lighthouse: The Dark Being, a group of 43 people. She had looked into the parking lot as she drove by to check for her daughter's car because her daughter worked at the mall and had had car trouble before. Bryan. The detective looked through the case files and found what he thought to be the murderer's blood. His ex-wife, Patricia, committed suicide in 2008, and his cousin . Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. [9] She was fully dressed, and the medical examiner determined she had not been sexually assaulted. Allison said he and Burns had a good relationship at first but it eventually turned sour. Jerry's hobbies included working on vehicles, hunting, fishing, racing cars, gardening, and working in the yard. His ex-wife, Patricia, committed suicide in 2008, and his cousin Brian Burns astonishingly disappeared. [1][5][6], Michelle Marie Martinko (October 6, 1961 December 19, 1979) was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. "Murder at . The defense requested the case be declared a mistrial as a result, but the judge denied the request and asked the prosecutor to rephrase the question. [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. Denlinger recorded him using a camera that was hidden inside a coffee mug. Denlinger told him authorities would come back to talk to him after they got the results of the DNA test. Burns had previously been married to Patricia Burns, who died in 2008 from suicide. 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. timing. [16] Based on cash found in Martinko's purse, police concluded that she had not been robbed. In 2018, familial DNA identified a suspect named Jerry Lynn Burns, and the case was finally laid to rest with the accused getting sentenced to life in prison without parole. Thank you!! "In a genetic genealogy database we can reverse engineer the [suspect's family] tree from their distant" relatives who have submitted DNA, Moore said. [16] Another rumor emerged that a second stabbing had happened in the following days and that police were keeping it secret, which police denied. 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. Police sent the blood samples to CODIS the nationwide data base of DNA collected from arrested offenders but didn't get a hit. They then started to locate all the people that they had originally interviewed in the investigation and collected DNA samples from over 100 different people. On December 19, 2018, exactly 39 years after Martinko's murder, the police confronted Burns and arrested him after his DNA matched the one found on Martinko's clothes. [26] He was not able to provide an explanation for why his DNA would have been present at the crime scene. Jerry Lynn Burns will be in prison for the rest of his days. "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. Jan. 16, 2020 7:49 pm, Updated: Jan. 17, 2020 2:37 pm. The defense team for . Jerry Lynn Burns, 65, is set to face a jury in February, bringing momentum to a case that was left cold for years. The trial was then moved to February 2020. [9][2], Police had few leads and appealed to the public for tips. Martinko then asked another acquaintance to go to the mall with her; that friend said yes at first but later changed her mind. 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 . The murder was closely followed within her community, and the police received more than 200 tips in the weeks following her killing. The new technique, started this year with the "Golden State Killer," has identified over two dozen suspects. On the eve of December 19, 1979, an 18-year-old high school student named Michelle Martinko was discovered dead in her family's car outside a mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 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Thanks to advances in technology and DNA evidence, a jury in an Iowa courthouse . The next day, she was found stabbed to death in the mall parking lot. ", First published on November 6, 2020 / 8:47 AM. William Brangham: Turns out the murderer was a distant, distant relative of Jennings. She will be remembered as a wonderful mother and wife, loving to spend time with her granddaughter . [4] Documents concluded that fewer than one in 100 billion people would match the DNA profile. Jerry Lynn Burns, 64, of Manchester, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder on Wednesday, nearly 40 years after the brutal murder of 18-year-old Michelle Martinko in the parking lot of . Thus began the quest to finally nab Martinko's killers. But where is this cold-blooded killer now? People around him considered him to be a professional but everything fizzled out shortly after. In 2017, Cedar Rapids police said they reached out to Parabon NanoLabs to help build a suspect profile based on the crime scene DNA. Burns' wife, Patricia . Jim was born on April 20, 1933 in Walsenburg, Colorado to Geraldine Hudson McAlpine and Victor Paul Hudson and passed away on February 24, 2023 at his home in Amarillo, Texas with his family by his side at the age of 89. The victim, Martinko, was an 18-year-old high school student from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who was visiting a mall to buy a winter coat. He grew up in Manchester, Iowa, and graduated from West Delaware High School in 1972. The case had remained a mystery for 39 years until police say new DNA genealogy technology identified Burns' DNA at the scene. [6] In September 2020, Burns filed a notice of appeal. "I am happy Michelle finally gets justice.". A witness testified he signed this image from a newspaper article about the case. 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Tests eliminated the other two brothers as suspects, but the DNA from Burns' straw matched the blood found on Martinko's clothing. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Authorities arrested 64-year-old Jerry Lynn Burns of Manchester this morning. During the trials, Burns was found to contradict his own statements. Her killer will go undetected for almost 40yrs! Burns stated that DNA evidence had been mishandled in 1979 in one instance, but denied ever being present on the night of the murder in another. 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. This really is an excellent true crimes podcast that is different from the many others that are being produced. 20-1150). The case was solved, but there were lingering questions about Jerry Burns. Authorities said Burns was last seen at his 1381 180th St. residence in Delaware County on Thursday, December 19 . Jerry Burns may be a hitched man, having a . [1][5] Iowan law mandates a life sentence without the possibility of parole for first degree murder. Please logout and login again. Hernando . On August 7, 2020, Burns was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Parabon. An investigator with the Cedar Rapids police department contacted DNA-tested members of two of the branches of the family tree, and eliminated those branches as containing the killer. I like that it's just the facts and case without anyone trying (poorly) to be a comedian or talk about their own personal nonsense lol. And I went 'bingo'.". 20-1150 APPEAL FROM THE IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR LINN COUNTY HONORABLE FAE E. HOOVER . Last . Burns repeatedly said he didn't know how his DNA was found at the crime scene. [23] Out of more than 80 potential suspects that had been identified over the years, more than 60 people were tested and cleared of suspicion. Jerry retired from the Army National Guard and retired as a Master Plumber. On Dec. 19, 1979, Michelle Martinko, 18, left a school banquet and drove her family's car to the Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to buy a winter coat, Cedar Rapids police said. The case got nationwide media attention but has remained an unsolved mystery for more than 25 years. You have permission to edit this article. Vikings PR. He and his wife, who now reside in Florida, said they . 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 . People who have worked on this game have also collaborated on the creation of the following games: Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire, a group of 68 people. Questions have been raised as to whether Jerry was involved in any other murders or missing person cases. This sounds like a serial killer. Accountability doled out to suspects. In 2006, a new cold case investigator working for the Cedar Rapids Police Department was tipped with an update. Investigators placed the three brothers under surveillance in an attempt to covertly collect their DNA, according to The Gazette. Over 40 years ago, teenager Michelle Martinko was stabbed to death outside a mall in Cedar Rapids . 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. "I asked Jerry, 'Did you do the crime?' 'A complete shock': Family of suspect in Martinko murder releases statement, Bobcats and beyond are wearing orange to support Benton Communitys Tatum Schroeder, UIHC library offers resources for and about people with disabilities. At the time of his arrest, Burns ran a powder-coating business called, Advanced Coating Concepts. On December 19, 2018, he was arrested in Manchester, Iowa, on the 39th anniversary of Michelle's death. On May 29, 2020, Burns' attorneys filed a motion asking for a new trial, claiming his constitutional and . We would also like to extend our sympathy to the Martinko family.. He entered a plea of not guilty. In December 1979, Martinko, a high school senior who was on the twirling squad at Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, went to the recently opened Westdale Mall after her choir banquet at school to buy a new winter coat. Months before his February . Roberta Williams' Phantasmagoria, a group of 39 people. [35] On May 29, 2020, Burns' attorneys filed a motion asking for a new trial, claiming his constitutional and state rights were violated and that the court made a mistake in overruling the request for evidence to be suppressed. Some thought that Martinko had received harassing phone calls before her death, but police stated that they did not think so. Murderer Jerry Lynn Burns was not caught for almost 40 years. "Do I look like that?" KWQC Jerry Burns' mugshot and a family photo of Michelle Martinko. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? God finally won. On December 20, 2018, a district judge set his bond at $5 million. Burns seemed to have a 'fetish for these violent, sexual themes, Cedar Rapids police Investigator Jeff Holst testified. Ken and Don were not a match but Jerry Burns' DNA was a match, to an almost perfect scientific certainty. Jerry Lynn Burns (defendant-appellant), which is before the Iowa Supreme Court. 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. Her father died in 1995 and her mother died in 1998. wife was deter mined to be a distant cousi n to many of the Subject's more . This is what eventually helped authorities identify the culprit - Jerry Lynn Burns. Allison also recounted a time when Burns tried to tear down a cellmate's bunk bed because he was snoring too loudly. While these occurrences sounded suspicious, the police didn't believe Burns had anything to do with them. [2], On December 19, 2018, exactly 39 years after Martinko's murder, Burns was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. 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. Burns was born in Manchester, Iowa in 1953 and graduated from West Delaware High School in 1972. Attorneys for Jerry Burns, convicted of the 1979 murder of Michelle Martinko, are continuing to fight DNA evidence they say the trial court erred in not supressing. Parabon made predictions for "ancestry, eye color, hair color, skin color, freckling, and face shape," police said, and the department released the composite images to the public in May 2017. You will begin to receive our Daily Courts & Public Safety updates. [2] Police determined from the lack of blood outside the car that Martinko had been killed while in the car, and the medical examiner later estimated she had died between 8 and 10p.m.[17] The murder weapon was "sharp-pointed" but not definitively a knife, and the medical examiner could not determine its size. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Nicholas Curran . 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. "Murder at the Mall: The Michelle Martinko Case," reported by "48 Hours" contributor Jamie Yuccas, airs on Saturday, August 7 at 9/8c on CBS. [2][4][27], In pretrial hearings, Burns' attorneys claimed that police needed a search warrant to gather his DNA from the discarded straw, but the judge determined that discarded property cannot reasonably be considered private. Offender records are public information pursuant to Section 904.601 (1)Iowa Code (1999). 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. At the department, Burns sked for a lawyer. Last week, a police investigator explained how using a public genealogy database - called GEDmatch - led to Burns being identified as a match to the DNA evidence found on Martinko's dress and gearshift of her car, where her body was found Dec. 20, 1979. [18], For some time, a prime suspect in Martinko's murder was a man who had, the month before, broken into a Cedar Rapids home, raped a woman at knifepoint, and threatened to kill her children. 39 years later after the murder, a person named Jerry Lynn Burns was arrested in Manchester, Iowa, and charged with first-degree murder. On cross examination, Spies asked Holst if he had expertise in psychology or forensic psychology. [2][5] Her hands bore defensive wounds, which police said to indicate that she had fought back against her killer. His cousin, Brian Burns, went missing on the 19th of December 2013. "I did not see this day coming," Franzman said on a broadcast this week. Hi all - I discuss the case of Michelle Martinko, who was murdered in 1979 in Iowa, this week on DNA: ID podcast. I miss all her singing and her beautiful music. The victim was the younger of two daughters of Albert and Janet Martinko. Jerry Lynn Burns was arrested in the 1979 killing of Michelle Martinko. He began to search for her, as did the police. [32] Prosecutors also played a video of a police interview of Burns, in which he denied being at the crime scene on the night of Martinko's murder, and could not explain how his DNA had been found at the scene. The police never received the information, and the woman did not contact police until months later, when they reissued a call for any information connected to the murder. She was seen inside the mall by friends and coworkers because Martinko worked in the mall. [12] Martinko, who was a senior in high school when she was killed, had plans to attend Iowa State University to study interior design. The Delaware County Sheriff's Office says Brian Burns remains an active missing person case but, at this point, has no link to his cousin. v. Jerry Lynn Burns. She had been stabbed 21 times in the face, neck, and chest. However, the case gradually grew cold as the investigation stretched on. Michelle was a high school senior when she was found stabbed to death in 1979 in a parking lot at the Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids. Michelle Martinko, 18, was stabbed to death in a mall parking lot in Dec. 1979. To learn more about the murder of Michelle Martinko, watch Dateline: Unforgettable on December 22, at 10:00 pm on Oxygen 79. County, FL. When Denlinger reminded Burns that Michelle had been killed in 1979, Burns responded, "It was a big deal. Derek Chauvin's ex-wife . Allison said he and Burns had a good relationship at first but it eventually turned sour. It showed that she was a distant relative of the person whose DNA was found at the crime scene a second cousin once removed. Investigators matched DNA found in the car to Jerry Burns and arrested him in 2018. Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. Martinko's father Albert and mother Janet died in 1995 and 1998 respectively. On February 24, 2020, after three hours of deliberation, the jury found Jerry Lynn Burns guilty of first-degree murder of Michelle Martinko. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. Investigators matched DNA found in the car to Jerry Burns and arrested him in 2018. 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. 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. Jerry Burns is still behind bars . Jim grew up . ABC News' Matt Foster and Ahmad Hemingway contributed to this report. It wasn't until decades after the killing that investigators began to link the emotions of a motive with the science of DNA. Cutting-edge DNA technology was used to solve the cold case. However, in 2006, a tip came into the Cedar Rapids police department. Detectives considered charging the Commissioner with failure to pass along the information to police, but no charges were pursued. Sign Up. Anthony Rex officiating. Cedar Rapids police arrested Jerry Lynn Burns, 64, on Wednesday morning and charged him with first-degree murder - 39 years to the day after the killing 18-year-old Michelle Martinko was stabbed . The family of the man suspected of murdering Michelle Martinko 39 years ago said the arrest came "as a complete shock.". He had followed them and secretly recovered their DNA. Burns was read his Miranda rights and taken to the police department. When the detectives first investigated this case, they thought of the homicide as being personal in nature - based on the 10 stab wounds . [25] He refused to voluntarily provide a sample of DNA, but was compelled to do so with a search warrant. [3] The brothers were placed under surveillance, and investigators began to attempt to collect their DNA secretly. "It's always the boyfriend, the girlfriend, the husband someone really close to the person. [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. May 12, 2021 at 04:20 PM. He then contacted a member of a third branch, and a DNA test determined that they were first cousins with the killer. But he said he and another investigator had no plans to arrest Burns that day. Jerry Lynn Burns, 64, was arrested Wednesday and . Jerry Burns appeals his conviction for murder in the first degree. Daryl F. Gates' Police Quest: SWAT, a group of 41 people. Doris Homerline Clower died Saturday . He was sentenced to life imprisonment and is currently being held at the Anamosa State Penitentiary. It was a cold case until 2018, when familial DNA identified a suspect 39 years after the crime who was charged, tried and convicted of her murder.[2]. [9] The killer left no fingerprints, which led police to believe they had worn gloves. Burns denied any involvement in the murder. "I read the article and it talked about genetic genealogy. Dave Franzman, a longtime reporter at ABC Cedar Rapids affiliate KCRG, Michelle Martinko's high school friend, Elizabeth Laymon, told The Des Moines Register. Court documents said blood on clothing worn by Martinko and a blood stain on the gear shift of the car, where the teens body was discovered, were analyzed and found to belong to someone else. Ahead of the Dateline NBC episode about her death, heres what you need to know about the crime, the perpetrator, and what sentence he received at trial. 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