In the summer of 1995, Patricia “Patsy” Barnes was a fixture in the Seattle, WA transient community.  Patsy never met a stranger, and when she disappeared, police had a lot of work to do to try to figure out who shot her, wrapped her nude body in an old sleeping bag, and dumped her in a ditch in a residential neighborhood in Kitsap County.  Despite their best efforts and a detailed sketch of her abductor, the case went unsolved.  It took four consistent samples of DNA and IGG to identify her killer, whose own story was a tale as old as time, with a dramatic finalé.

In 2017, a dog in rural Barron County, WI found a human skull with a bullet hole in it.  The find led investigators to the remains of a murdered man whose body bore no identification.  When IGG identified him as Gary Herbst, it appeared no one had reported him missing.  Interviews with his family soon raised questions about what had happened to Gary – questions that investigators found shocking answers to.

Single mom Eileen Zarlenga disappeared from her home on a cold night in March 1988, taking her coat, boots and purse, but leaving behind her three year old daughter.  Eileen remained missing for 4 days, and when she was found, it was not good news.  The question of who stabbed the young mother over and over and left her body in a remote patch of woods in Mahoning County, OH would haunt generations of investigators.  When DNA was detected on sexual assault kit swabs, it did not get investigators any closer to an answer.  And when IGG came along and was used to identify Eileen’s attacker, real answers remained elusive. Eileen’s case is closed, but you won’t see the end of this one coming.