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Audrey Hoellein Part 2 of 2 Mar 09, 2026

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Episode 180 Audrey Hoellein Part 2 of 2

This is part 2,; the conclusion of the Audrey Hoellein case. If you have not listened to part 1 yet, please stop now and go back and listen to that part first.

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Audrey Hoellein Part 1 of 2 Mar 09, 2026

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Episode 180 Audrey Hoellein Part 1 of 2

The 1994 murder of Audrey Hoellein on her bed in her Vancouver, WA apartment led to a very complex investigation with a large number of suspects. The case relied heavily on forensic testing, which found the DNA of two men on Audrey's comforter. Investigators could identify only one of them, and he was, for a time, the prime suspect. But it was the unidentified one – "Individual A" – whom the police zeroed in on. Once IGG identified him, and authorities started to put together their case against him, it opened a whole can of worms. The ending is not what you would expect.

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Doe ID: 'Davie Canal Jane Doe' Lori Kearsey Mar 02, 2026

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Episode 179 Doe ID: 'Davie Canal Jane Doe' Lori Kearsey

As in Marilyn Decker's case last week, Lori Kearsey was found murdered and floating in a Davie, FL canal in the 1980s. She remained a Jane Doe for decades, because she had no ties to the area. And when she was identified by IGG, it turned out that she was very much missed. Her killer remains at large, but detectives have a strong person of interest, and are actively working Lori's case.

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Marilyn Decker Feb 23, 2026

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Episode 178 Marilyn Decker

Marilyn Decker's mutilated body, wrapped in a pink plastic bag, was found floating in a Davie, FL canal in 1987. Her case was complex and featured many shady and transient suspects, but detectives could not pin the crime on any of them. It seemed the case would forever remain unsolved, until one determined detective took a chance on rootless hair evidence, and IGG. And those hairs led to a man police never suspected, an itinerant, seasoned criminal whose violent crimes are just now coming to light.

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Doe ID: 'Lime Lady' Tammy Tigard Feb 16, 2026

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Episode 177 Doe ID: 'Lime Lady' Tammy Tigard

Today's case is that of the infamous "Lime Lady," the young white Jane Doe found covered in quicklime in Oklahoma in 1980. Investigators had very little to go on in her case, even though her features and physical attributes were very well preserved. She remained unidentified for nearly a half century. And when the DNA Doe Project gave her her name back, it simply gave rise to more questions – questions which remain unanswered.

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Phyllis Bailer Feb 09, 2026

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Episode 176 Phyllis Bailer

In 1972, Phyllis Bailer and her toddler daughter set out to make an evening drive to her parents' house for a weekend visit. The drive from their home in Indianapolis to Bluffton, IN should have taken less than two hours. But Phyllis and her child never made it. The next day came awful news for Phyllis's family when she was found dead in a ditch. Her young daughter Jodi was by her side, and suffered only a small injury. And so began a decades-long investigation into Phyllis's murder. A prime suspect focused on by the investigators for years and years seemed like the logical culprit. But police and Phyllis's family would not have definitive answers until IGG came along and pointed them in an entirely different direction.

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Doe ID: 'Charlotte Walmart John Doe' Kenneth McCarthy Feb 02, 2026

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Episode 175 Doe ID: 'Charlotte Walmart John Doe' Kenneth McCarthy

In 2016, a John Doe was found behind a WalMart in Charlotte, NC. With no identification and very few personal possessions, he remained unidentified, known only as Charlotte WalMart John Doe. When a cold case detective took a class on IGG analysis, he applied the new technique to Charlotte WalMart John Doe's case, and found relatives who had been looking for him for 12 years. This is the story of Kenneth Robert McCarthy.

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Barbara Villarreal Part 2 of 2 Jan 26, 2026

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Episode 174 Barbara Villarreal Part 2 of 2

This is part 2; the conclusion of the Barbara Villarreal case. If you have not listened to part 1 yet, please stop now and listen to part 1 first.

Barbara Villarreal Part 1 of 2 Jan 26, 2026

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Episode 174 Barbara Villarreal Part 1 of 2

In this Season 6 opener, you'll hear the jaw-dropping, twisty case of Barbara Carr Villarreal. Barbara was stabbed to death in her Garland, TX home in 1986. Her husband was also attacked in the home invasion. But stories and evidence did not match up, and police were left chasing their tails, and chasing their prime suspect who was in the wind. Nothing in this case was as it seemed to be, and justice for Barbara seemed unattainable. Modern investigators had to solve an identity theft case to find the true name of the person they believed was behind Barbara's murder, and then had to use kinship testing to finally name her murderer.

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DNA ID Replay Kim Bryant and Diana Hanson Jan 19, 2026

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Episode 173 DNA ID Replay Kim Bryant and Diana Hanson

While Jess is on winter break preparing new episodes of DNA ID for 2026, we are airing some of our favorite one part episodes weekly in what we call 'DNA ID Replay' episodes. These Replay episodes will air every week while on break with the exception of Christmas week. In this episode, we explore the case of Kim Bryant and Diana Hanson which originally aired in episode 37.

1979 Las Vegas, a weekday morning. 16 year old Kim Bryant was at a Dairy Queen waiting for her ride – and then she was gone. Her body was found a month later, sexually assaulted, beaten and murdered. A notorious serial killer was the only real suspect – he was executed in Texas, but he didn't kill her. When a tip came in in 2019, new testing was conducted on the biological evidence in Kim's case that isolated a male DNA profile. Forensic genealogy led to the name of a suspect, and further testing of his living relatives revealed that he was the killer of Kim Bryant. But naming him also allowed the LVMPD to close another cold case – the 1983 abduction, rape and murder of 22 year old Diana Hanson. The same killer had struck twice – at least.

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