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.

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. 

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.