A Murder Went Cold for 37 Years Until DNA Found Her Killer
The episode details the 1980 murder of Helene Pruszynski, a young journalism intern who was abducted, assaulted, and killed in Colorado. For nearly four decades, the case remained unsolved despite a dedicated group of friends and detectives who refused to let the investigation die. The breakthrough finally arrived through forensic genetic genealogy, which allowed investigators to build a family tree and identify James Curtis Clanton as the primary suspect. By secretly collecting Clanton’s DNA from a discarded beer mug in Florida, authorities confirmed a match to evidence preserved from the…
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