The Hitman and the Husband: A Forty-Year Cold Case
The episode details the four-decade investigation into the 1982 murder of Lee Rotatori, a dietician discovered dead in an Iowa motel. Although the victim's husband, Jerry Nemke, was a convicted murderer with a suspicious background, his ironclad alibi initially shielded him from being charged. The case remained unsolved until recent advancements in genetic genealogy allowed investigators and a volunteer researcher to identify Thomas Oscar Freeman as the killer through DNA evidence. Further inquiries revealed that Freeman was likely a hired hitman connected to Nemke through their shared prison…
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