Before we even ended up at that home. So he had a good little jumpstart on us. Narrator and he apparently made it back over the border. For those seeking justice for sierra, this was a disaster. Mancuso we were continually working with the fbi and the u. S. Marshals to try to find this guy and bring him back to get him here, at least to get a Dna Sample and question him about what he did that night and what was going on that night. Narrator but they didnt know who he was or where he was and had only a vague idea of what he looked like. The case stalled for nearly six long years. Yeah, that frustrated me a lot. Narrator investigators shared the familys frustrations. They had the killers dna, but with no other clues, it was all but useless. Mancuso i think any time any murder occurs and youre trying to solve it and you cant, its very frustrating. I always felt like we were going to solve it because we had dna
Johnston all of the bedding has been removed, and it is in the wash machine. Whatever staining had been on the bedding is most likely removed in the wash, and so were unable to match it up. Narrator oddly, for a crime with clear sexual motivations, chanin had not been raped. The autopsy revealed Petechial Hemorrhages in chanins Eyes Confirmation that strangulation was the cause of death. And this gave investigators a possible break. There was something Chanins Killer apparently didnt realize. Chanin may have just taken a shower. Her hair looked like it was airdried. Narrator that meant her body might provide a good, freshly cleaned template for the killers dna. If theres any kind of suspicions that someone may have been manually strangled, typically, the Medical Examiner will take swabs of the neck