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More than a year after Mengqi Ji's disappearance, a hiker stumbled upon her skeletal remains in a Missouri park. How DNA from a juniper tree and a pair of muddy boots were crucial to solving her murder.
When 28-Year-old Mengqi Ji disappeared, her husband Joe Elledge was suspected of her murder. Then a hiker made a gruesome discovery, and DNA from a juniper tree sealed Elledge's fate.
For over a year, Mengqi' Ji's husband Joe Elledge, then 23, had been insisting that his wife took only her purse and disappeared.
William Randle informed the jury of his analysis between samples taken near Mengqi Ji's gravesite and Elledge's boots.