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Bloodline Detectives - Season 6 Episode 8 -
The Last Valentine
The Last Valentine
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04:22A 22-year-old woman who is studying at UT Arlington.
04:27Terry McAdams was a sister and a friend.
04:31She was a community member.
04:32She was a student at the University of Texas at Arlington.
04:35She was very high energy, so she loved to do just about anything.
04:44We were a family of five.
04:46There were three daughters.
04:47It was such a magical time to be a child because the 1960s and 70s
04:52just everything was just so carefree.
04:54Little Rock was not very big, and we just lived in a beautiful neighborhood
04:58and just had the time of our lives.
05:01She started her college career at the University of Arkansas,
05:05so she was there her freshman and sophomore years
05:08and just enjoyed the college life of a young lady for those two years,
05:13but that's where she met her fiancé, and that's what brought her here to Arlington.
05:17He was nice, very soft-spoken.
05:19I didn't really know him that well.
05:21He gave her a really nice engagement ring, and she was happy.
05:26She was excited about it.
05:29Terry moved here from Arkansas for her boyfriend, who became her fiancé.
05:34She really wasn't sure, still, what she wanted to do for a degree.
05:38She had dabbled in different areas, but it seemed like her focus could be in finance.
05:43It could be in marketing.
05:44She had a lot of different interests.
05:46She was a very creative person.
05:48They lived in different apartments because Terry came from a conservative family,
05:53and I don't think she had the intention of living with her fiancé before they got married.
06:00So she spent time in both apartments.
06:02But in 1984, Terry grew increasingly fearful for her safety after a string of young women were murdered in the city.
06:13She was very scared.
06:15She had written letters to her mom, sent her clippings of some of the news from murders that were happening in the area.
06:22And she had left a job because she didn't like being out after dark.
06:27She liked to come home and lock herself inside the apartment to feel safe.
06:33It was an upscale apartment complex.
06:35A lot of flight crew lived in that apartment complex,
06:38which also meant that the apartment complex wasn't always occupied,
06:42so not a lot of watchful eyes on what was going on.
06:46On Valentine's Day, 1985, Terry's worst fears become a reality.
06:53A gruesome discovery is made by a maintenance worker who enters her fiancé's apartment.
06:59Well, they had come in to do some routine spraying for insects,
07:04and when they walked into the apartment, the television was on and the stove was on,
07:09which seemed strange.
07:11Clearly, someone had left in a hurry.
07:13But when they went into the bedroom, they discovered a terrible scene.
07:17He unfortunately saw Terry McAdams' lifeless body,
07:21a very bloody and just a horrific scene.
07:26Her face was beaten severely.
07:29She had several broken bones.
07:31It looks like her, like, eye socket had significant trauma.
07:35Her body was found in a kind of a fetal position.
07:39There was blood everywhere.
07:41She was brutally sexually assaulted, and she was unclothed.
07:46So, originally, of course, patrol comes out.
07:49Once they make the evaluation, our homicide detectives responded.
07:54They kind of take control from the scene there and resources that they need.
07:58Initially, it would have been a patrol response,
08:00and in this case, we actually had what's called a courtesy officer
08:03that resided at that apartment complex.
08:06It was a very tough scene.
08:07And I can only imagine what those officers felt when they walked into that scene.
08:11There was blood everywhere.
08:13Nothing appeared to be ransacked or anything.
08:16The only thing that we could find that had been stolen from the apartment
08:19was Terry's engagement ring.
08:22The apartment that she was in belonged to her fiancé at the time.
08:25We didn't know where he was.
08:27So, based on the fact that it was in his apartment,
08:30it was a very violent personal attack,
08:32her fiancé became suspect number one.
08:37Statistically, a lot of times,
08:38suspect number ones are the partners and people closest to you.
08:41Rarely are there someone that is an unknown perpetrator in a case.
08:51Police launch a homicide investigation
08:54and work quickly to locate the victim's fiancé.
08:58News of the murder spreads quickly,
09:00and residents of Arlington are gripped by fear.
09:04It did hit the community very hard.
09:06It was in all the newspapers.
09:08They even had flyers up in Arkansas, where she was from,
09:12saying, if you have any information,
09:14please contact the Arlington Police Department
09:16to try to find her killer.
09:19People were very scared, especially young women.
09:22Even Terry herself was scared,
09:25knew about the serial killers in the area.
09:27Community, especially young women,
09:29was very on edge and very scared.
09:32Women at the time were taking self-defense classes.
09:35Stun guns had come on the market.
09:37They were snapping them up.
09:39Gun sales skyrocketed.
09:41And a lot of the women,
09:42particularly on the college campuses,
09:45just had this annoying sense of fear
09:47that never went away.
09:49Women were talking about how afraid they were.
09:53Young women in Arlington
09:54are locking their doors at night,
09:56wary and on edge.
09:58Police understand the urgency
10:00and immediately focus on retracing Terry's final movements
10:03and bringing her fiancé in for questioning.
10:19On Valentine's Day 1985,
10:2122-year-old UTA student Terry McAdams
10:24is found beaten to death
10:26in her fiancé's apartment
10:27in Arlington, Texas.
10:29Police quickly launch a homicide investigation
10:32and appeal to neighbors for any information.
10:35Locating Terry's fiancé
10:36is another vital line of inquiry.
10:38The interesting part about Terry being found
10:44in her boyfriend's apartment
10:45was Terry also had an apartment
10:47in that same complex.
10:49Terry has her own apartment here.
10:50Why would she be at her boyfriend's apartment
10:52when he's not here?
10:53We started talking to all the, you know,
10:57neighbors and friends and family
10:58and things of that nature.
10:59and we kind of learned
11:01that Terry and the fiancé
11:03did have a little bit
11:05of a tumultuous relationship
11:06to where they would get into fights
11:09and they would get into arguments.
11:11It was a very just kind of
11:13back-and-forth type of relationship.
11:17Then Terry's fiancé arrives back at his apartment
11:20and is met with a crime scene.
11:23We took him to the police station
11:25and asked him to come in for an interview.
11:27So we got his statement
11:29on where he was, what he was doing,
11:32and our next job was to verify his statement.
11:36His statement was that he was out of town
11:37during this happening for work.
11:43We were able to verify that
11:45later on with his employer,
11:47but to be on the safe sign,
11:49we also did a polygraph for him,
11:51which he passed.
11:52So we were able to rule him out fairly quickly.
11:54They did extensive searches
11:59of his bank account,
12:01of his travel records.
12:02They verified where he was at the time
12:04and could not find anything
12:06to link him to what happened to Terry.
12:10I think it is important
12:12to rule out individuals that are innocent,
12:15just as important as it is
12:16to find the suspect.
12:18Terry's fiancé is officially ruled out
12:21as a suspect.
12:21Investigators returned their focus
12:24to the crime scene,
12:25hopeful for clues left behind by the killer.
12:30Getting evidence in this crime was vital
12:32due to back then in 1985.
12:34You know, you don't think about phones,
12:36you don't think about video surveillance
12:38or anything like that.
12:39So they did a lot of work in the scene.
12:41You know, they confiscated everything
12:42that they can get.
12:44And that included, you know,
12:45samples of hair, footprints,
12:47bed sheets and cloths and clothes.
12:51They gathered everything
12:51that they can get.
12:53They got one solid fingerprint back
12:55and that was immediately put
12:56into an APHIS database system.
12:59APHIS works.
13:00It's pretty much a regional database system
13:02that all of our fingerprints
13:03get uploaded into.
13:04It'd be able to tell
13:05if the suspect has already been in our custody
13:07or custody of law enforcement.
13:09They didn't get a return
13:10from that APHIS database system.
13:13We did a sexual assault kit
13:15to see if that would, you know,
13:17produce any results.
13:18And we were able to get a hair sample
13:20from that sexual assault kit.
13:23But we did locate a cigarette butt
13:25that was in the apartment.
13:27So the cigarette butt actually ended up
13:30being very significant
13:31as we continued our investigation.
13:34The cigarette butt was left in the apartment,
13:37but it was great that it was left
13:39because Terry didn't smoke.
13:41So that was very beneficial
13:43that that was left there.
13:45We believed that the point of entry
13:46for the suspect was going to be
13:47a balcony door that was not secure.
13:50And we were able to kind of further
13:52that belief based on a muddy footprint
13:55that we saw outside
13:56of the apartment as well.
13:58Ultimately, we were able to send photos
14:01of that shoe to different manufacturers
14:03to try to determine
14:04what kind of shoe that it was.
14:06And unfortunately, I don't think
14:07we were ever able to get that figured out.
14:11Terry's body is removed from the scene
14:13and transported to the morgue for an autopsy.
14:17An autopsy report examines the body
14:19from head to toe.
14:20And the reports that we get back
14:22from the medical examiner's doctors
14:24are very thorough.
14:26And it's going to tell you everything
14:27because it also gathers even more DNA
14:30which is the hair samples
14:32and the fingernail samples
14:33and the fingerprints
14:34and the sexual assault kits
14:36and things like that.
14:38There did appear to be defensive injuries.
14:40She did appear to fight back.
14:42And I think that is why
14:44the scene was so horrific
14:45was because the attacker
14:47really took that personally.
14:49The cause of death was blunt force trauma.
14:53The murder weapon was a hammer.
14:55Detectors looked for that hammer
14:56in the scene, out the scene,
14:58throughout the exterior
14:59of the whole apartment complex.
15:01Unfortunately, the hammer was never located.
15:04I believe that the individual
15:07responsible for her death
15:08immediately discarded it.
15:10With the amount of blood
15:12that was in that scene,
15:13I can't see how that hammer
15:16was going to be able to be used again
15:19without somebody asking questions.
15:22Back at the crime scene,
15:24investigators learned
15:25that Terry had been preparing
15:26to surprise her fiancé
15:28for Valentine's Day.
15:32Unfortunately, Terry passed
15:33on Valentine's Day in 1985,
15:36so February 14, 1985.
15:39While detectives were moving
15:41through their investigation,
15:42they had learned that her boyfriend
15:43was supposed to be coming back
15:45from being out of town.
15:47And Terry took the time
15:49to go through and bake him a cake.
15:51She was trying to be, you know,
15:53the loving fiancé.
15:54He's been out of town.
15:54I haven't seen him.
15:55I'm going to go to his apartment.
15:57I'm going to bake him this cake
15:58for Valentine's Day.
15:59And she was really just trying
16:00to do everything she could
16:01so that her and her fiancé
16:03would have a romantic evening in
16:05for Valentine's Day.
16:07And unfortunately,
16:07she never got to experience that.
16:09police have the devastating task
16:13of notifying Terry's family
16:14of her murder.
16:17Just a frantic phone call
16:20from my mother.
16:22All I really remember
16:23is just a very panicked sound
16:27and just repeating over and over,
16:29Terry's dead.
16:30Terry's dead.
16:31Terry's dead.
16:32Well, I stopped what I was doing
16:33and drove all the way
16:34to Little Rock to her house.
16:35and I remember walking in
16:38and just collapsing on the floor
16:43in my mother's arms.
16:44I don't really know what I did
16:46during that time.
16:47I think I just was in survival mode.
16:50And my mother was,
16:53I can't even imagine
16:54what she was going through,
16:55but I so admire her strength
16:56because she really did
16:57try so hard to protect.
17:01I remember the church.
17:02I remember sitting on the front row.
17:04I remember holding hands
17:05with my grandmother.
17:06I do remember
17:07that there was a huge turnout.
17:10I don't know how I would have done it
17:11without the number of friends
17:13that rallied around me.
17:14I do remember days of people
17:17just coming over to the house
17:19and sitting up on my bed
17:21and sitting in the room
17:22and everybody just being together,
17:25just being there for me.
17:26It had to have been devastating.
17:30Terry was planning a wedding
17:31in the church
17:33where her funeral was held.
17:35It was a shock
17:37and it was a stunning thing
17:39to get over.
17:41Suddenly this person
17:42is ripped from your life.
17:44It didn't make sense.
17:46And there were no answers.
17:47Investigators are determined
17:52to get justice
17:53for Terry's heartbroken loved ones.
17:55They start compiling
17:56a list of potential killers.
18:00I would describe
18:01the work from
18:02the original detectives
18:03as amazing police work
18:05based on the investigative techniques
18:08that were used in the 80s.
18:10Detectives back then,
18:12which it was two of them,
18:13they knocked on every door
18:14in that apartment complex.
18:15and also going to her school, UTA,
18:19talking with all her classmates.
18:21They're writing
18:21as they're getting all of this.
18:24Notes from every person
18:25that they done talked to
18:26came back to be hundreds.
18:29So if you were a sex offender
18:32in the area,
18:33you were interviewed.
18:34It's really just
18:35knocking on doors
18:37and trying to get a timeline
18:39for all of these people
18:40on where were you
18:42during this time?
18:42Is there anybody
18:43that can verify
18:44and validate that?
18:45One by one,
18:48investigative leads dry up.
18:50Police have seemingly
18:51hit a dead end.
18:54A case would typically
18:55go cold when,
18:57if at that time,
18:58there is no new technology
18:59or nothing to push
19:01the case forward
19:02to a satisfactory conclusion.
19:04You go cold after 120 days.
19:08Going cold doesn't mean
19:09the case stops.
19:10It didn't stop
19:11and it never stopped.
19:12Continuing to look
19:13into this case,
19:14continuing to re-examine evidence
19:16and look for other
19:18B&A companies
19:19and things like that.
19:20The investigation into Terry's
19:23sexual assault and murder
19:24goes cold for over 15 years
19:26until advancements
19:28in forensic science
19:29prompt police
19:30to take the case
19:31off the shelf.
19:32We do understand
19:36that technology advances
19:37and technology advances
19:38very rapidly.
19:39And in this particular case,
19:41in 2001,
19:42the decision was made
19:43to resubmit items
19:46for processing.
19:48The goal was,
19:49would we be able
19:50to get a stronger DNA profile
19:53that could be uploaded
19:55into CODIS?
19:55CODIS is the
19:58Combined DNA Index System.
20:00It's a repository
20:01of all DNA input.
20:03So you put suspect DNA in it.
20:05You put people
20:06who have been arrested in it.
20:08And you put unknown
20:09DNA profiles into it
20:10to potentially give you a match.
20:12It's much like APHIS
20:13is with fingerprints
20:14where you upload
20:15someone's DNA
20:16and you look for a match.
20:19We had a full DNA profile
20:20of the suspect.
20:21So we were really looking
20:22for something
20:24to generate a lead
20:25for us to get us
20:26to the next step
20:27in the case.
20:29So in 2001,
20:31they retested a cigarette butt
20:34that had been found
20:35in the room
20:36and they discovered
20:37the DNA of an unknown man.
20:40The initial detectives
20:41did a great job
20:42tracking everybody down
20:44that they possibly could.
20:45And then when CODIS
20:46came around,
20:47even processing items
20:49from the scene
20:50and getting that entered.
20:51unfortunately,
20:55we just never got a hit.
20:59The DNA profile
21:00was in CODIS
21:02for many years
21:03without a hit.
21:04And so we were
21:05at a standstill.
21:06They reopened the case
21:08back in the early 2000s
21:09and there was no match
21:10in CODIS
21:11or anywhere.
21:12And so you get
21:13your hopes up.
21:14You never completely
21:14lose hope,
21:15but you get your hopes up
21:16and then it goes cold again.
21:18and then you think
21:19that it's just
21:20not going to happen.
21:22We just thought
21:22we're going to be
21:23one of those families
21:23that doesn't ever
21:24get those answers.
21:27Arlington police
21:28are frustrated
21:29that the CODIS search
21:30produced no matches,
21:32leaving Terry's killer
21:32still at large
21:33and her family
21:34without answers.
21:36But they refused
21:37to give up.
21:39Unaware that just
21:39a few years later,
21:41a newly formed
21:41cold case unit
21:42would harness
21:43emerging technology
21:44with the potential
21:45to finally break
21:46the case wide open.
21:48It's been 20 years
22:01since 22-year-old
22:02UT Arlington student
22:03Terry McAdams
22:04was found beaten
22:05and sexually assaulted
22:06in her fiancé's apartment
22:08in Texas.
22:10Despite the case
22:11being revisited
22:12throughout the intervening years,
22:14police have been unable
22:15to identify her killer.
22:16However,
22:18a new cold case team
22:19is determined
22:20to reopen the investigation
22:21and find justice
22:23once and for all.
22:25In 2005,
22:27when I became
22:28a homicide detective,
22:29we had a dedicated
22:30cold case unit.
22:31And Terry McAdams' case
22:32was one of the cases
22:33that those detectives
22:34went and looked at.
22:36So with unsolved homicides,
22:38we never closed the case.
22:40It's always assigned
22:41to an active member
22:42of the homicide unit.
22:43Probably each time
22:45the case changed hands,
22:47a detective would have called
22:48Terry McAdams' family,
22:50introduced themselves
22:50and said,
22:51I'm the detective
22:51on the case now,
22:52and they would provide
22:53their phone number.
22:54So if the family
22:55had something come up,
22:56they could also call
22:57and get that person
22:58on the phone.
23:00In 2023,
23:02the cold case unit
23:03sent DNA samples
23:04from the crime scene
23:05and autopsy
23:06to be retested.
23:08So the DNA
23:09that we were able
23:11to get back
23:11from testing for Terry
23:13was a mixture.
23:15And basically,
23:16we were able
23:16to determine
23:17that the DNA profile
23:18that we got back
23:19was Terry's DNA
23:21and then an unknown
23:22male DNA profile.
23:23If we're able
23:24to determine
23:25that we have a mixture now,
23:27is technology
23:28going to get better
23:29to where we're able
23:30to kind of split that
23:31going down the road?
23:33That DNA
23:34was able
23:35to be further tested,
23:37which created
23:38a DNA profile
23:40that was able
23:41to be a good enough
23:42candidate
23:43for the investigative genealogy
23:45based on the profile
23:46that they created.
23:47That result came back
23:48to a black male.
23:50That's when,
23:51at the time,
23:52detectives was able
23:53to exclude all white male
23:54and all Caucasian,
23:56and that's when
23:56we looked into further testing
23:58with genetic genealogy.
24:00So I took a look
24:01and tried to figure out,
24:03is there anything available
24:04that we could do
24:06to kind of push
24:07this case forward,
24:08any DNA evidence
24:09that may have been overlooked,
24:10fingerprints,
24:11anything like that.
24:12And it seemed like
24:13our initial detectives
24:14had really done
24:15everything that they
24:16possibly could.
24:18Then I was told
24:19about the FBI's
24:20new genetic genealogy program.
24:23Myself and Chief Dishko
24:24set up that meeting
24:25to see if we can make
24:26that happen
24:26and get this case solved.
24:27This emerging DNA science
24:31was used to identify
24:32the infamous
24:33Golden State Killer
24:34in 2018
24:35and has since been used
24:37to solve hundreds
24:37of cold cases
24:38across the USA.
24:41Investigative genetic genealogy
24:43combines unknown suspect DNA
24:45found at the crime scene
24:46with genealogy research
24:48and the use of public
24:50historical data
24:51to help develop new leads
24:53for law enforcement agencies.
24:54We were really looking
24:57for cases
24:58that we could take
24:59to the FBI
24:59to do investigative
25:01genetic genealogy.
25:02So I called
25:03the assistant special agent
25:04in charge
25:04at the Dallas field office
25:06and they agreed
25:07to assist us
25:08with the case
25:08utilizing genetic genealogy.
25:10For us to be approved
25:11to use investigative
25:12genetic genealogy,
25:14the crime has to be
25:15a violent crime.
25:16Usually we look at
25:16sexual assaults,
25:18homicides,
25:19and unidentified human remains.
25:21The suspect DNA
25:22has to be uploaded
25:24in the CODIS
25:24and have a negative result.
25:27Lastly,
25:27all other investigative leads
25:29had to have been exhausted.
25:31So the FBI
25:33got the DNA profile
25:34in late 2023.
25:36We provided them
25:37all the information
25:38on the case.
25:39We submitted a write-up
25:40of the case
25:41that was sent
25:41to FBI headquarters.
25:43They assigned
25:44a special agent
25:45to our case
25:45that was assigned
25:46as a co-lead detective
25:48with our detective
25:48from our homicide unit
25:50and the two of them
25:51began working the case
25:52almost instantly
25:53once the case
25:53was accepted
25:54by the FBI.
25:55I would tell you
25:56the FBI
25:56and the Dallas office
25:58are amazing.
26:00They are a great partner
26:02to local law enforcement.
26:04They have resources
26:05and financial backing
26:07that sometimes
26:08we don't have.
26:09They really provided us
26:11with leads
26:11on this case
26:12based on their
26:13technical abilities
26:14that we couldn't
26:15have done on our own.
26:17We gave the FBI
26:19everything.
26:20We had created
26:21a synopsis
26:22for them
26:22based on everything
26:23that had been done.
26:24Unfortunately,
26:26not every case
26:27is eligible
26:27for genetic genealogy.
26:29It is very specific
26:30due to the type
26:31of DNA
26:31that is necessary.
26:32The FBI agreed
26:34that this was
26:35a significant case
26:36that they wanted
26:37to review.
26:38I think that
26:39any time that
26:41you want to try
26:41something new,
26:43I think it's not
26:44about being proud
26:45of yourself.
26:46It's about providing
26:47answers to the families.
26:48That's really why
26:49we do this job.
26:50We really do this
26:51because we want
26:52to provide answers.
26:54We want to provide justice.
26:56Digital forensics
26:56is evolving.
26:58DNA technology
26:59is evolving.
27:00And we need to be
27:01on the cutting edge
27:02of those technologies
27:03and to continue
27:04to move forward
27:05to try to provide
27:06answers for families.
27:08I know a multitude
27:09of evidence
27:10was collected
27:12in 1985.
27:13The key evidence
27:15that we ended up
27:15looking at
27:16was a cigarette butt
27:17that was found
27:18next to the body
27:20of the deceased
27:21because neither her
27:22nor her fiancé
27:24who apartment it was
27:25that she was located
27:26in smoked
27:27and the sexual assault
27:29kit that was performed
27:30on Ms. McAdams.
27:32Police did an amazing
27:34job of preserving
27:35evidence that they
27:36didn't even know
27:37how much value
27:39would have.
27:40At the time,
27:41DNA was in its
27:41very early stages
27:43of discovery
27:44and they managed
27:46to preserve
27:46everything meticulously
27:48which allowed police
27:49to test items
27:51for DNA multiple times
27:52because every time
27:54an item is tested
27:55that evidence
27:56is used up.
27:57So they have to preserve
27:58as much as they can
28:00during the testing
28:01to allow for retesting
28:03at a later time.
28:05The familial testing
28:06uses the Y
28:08short tandem repeat
28:09or the Y-S-T-R
28:10which is more
28:11dealing with CODIS
28:12whereas IgG
28:14uses a SNP profile
28:16which is just
28:16a different DNA profile
28:19that has more markers
28:20where usually an S-T-R
28:23looks at 1 to 17 markers.
28:27A SNP profile
28:28can look at 750
28:30to a million different markers
28:31that doesn't mutate
28:33over time
28:34and that's how
28:34we measure family lineage.
28:36We had already
28:38created the SNP.
28:40We had reached out
28:41to a private lab
28:42prior trying to
28:44move the case forward
28:46and the FBI
28:47was able to get the SNP
28:48from that private lab
28:50and then from there
28:51they began to
28:52go through
28:53and build out
28:54a family tree.
28:55They were able
28:57to isolate
28:58some new DNA
29:00that was found
29:01and then do
29:02some genetic genealogy
29:03to trace back
29:05who may have been
29:06responsible for this.
29:08And then we were
29:09given a match list
29:11when the private
29:12laboratory took over
29:13so we're going to start
29:14looking at that match list
29:16and doing what's called
29:17match resolution.
29:18We're not given
29:19any more information
29:20than the general public
29:21who would be using
29:22these same databases
29:24and we have to
29:26positively identify
29:27the true identity
29:29of these matches
29:30and then we're going to
29:30start building
29:31those individuals
29:32into a family tree
29:34trying to connect them
29:35to the suspect
29:36trying to connect
29:37matches to matches
29:38and that's exactly
29:39what we started doing.
29:41By mapping out
29:42family trees
29:43through genetic genealogy
29:44detectives begin
29:45building momentum
29:46in the Terry McAdams
29:47cold case.
29:48I was excited
29:51because the FBI
29:53was excited about it.
29:54Special Agent Webb
29:55immediately
29:56kind of got to work.
29:57From there
29:58it was pretty
29:59consistent communication
30:00with myself
30:01and Special Agent Webb
30:02until Detective
30:04Kofor
30:04came on board.
30:07I ended up getting
30:07the case in January
30:08just a couple months
30:09later
30:10like ended up
30:10getting the call
30:11that he informed me
30:13hey we might have
30:13turned nothing
30:14into something
30:15as the words
30:16that he used.
30:16So our top match
30:19that we were given
30:20who I believe
30:21was between 60
30:22and 81 centimorgans
30:23which is not
30:24a great match.
30:25From that report
30:26we got from
30:26the private laboratory
30:27they stated
30:28we should
30:29talk to
30:30several individuals
30:31who could be
30:32second cousins
30:33to this top match
30:34in the Waco area.
30:35So my partner
30:36and I traveled
30:36to Waco Texas
30:37and conducted
30:38a couple interviews
30:39of individuals
30:41who should have been
30:42the second cousin
30:43of our top match.
30:44The problem was
30:45they were not a match
30:46to our top match
30:48which told us
30:49he was probably
30:50more than likely adopted.
30:51So a couple weeks later
30:52we gave him a call
30:53extremely cooperative
30:55extremely nice person
30:56but he informed us
30:57he did not know
30:58who his biological family was.
30:59If we can figure out
31:01who your biological parents are
31:02that will help us
31:04and it will also help you
31:05are you okay with that?
31:06And he agreed.
31:08So what we essentially did
31:09was perform
31:10investigative genetic genealogy
31:12on our top match
31:13and we were able
31:14to identify
31:15his biological mother
31:16and then tie
31:17that family line
31:18into the suspect's
31:20family tree.
31:21And that's when I
31:22told Arlington
31:23Police Department
31:24hey we need to meet
31:24immediately
31:25because there's
31:26three suspects
31:27that have to be
31:28the killer
31:29of Terry McAdams.
31:30The youngest brother
31:31had passed in 1985.
31:33The middle child
31:34had recently passed
31:35in 2021
31:36and the oldest brother
31:38was still living
31:38and he did not
31:39have a criminal history.
31:41What I recommended
31:42to Arlington
31:42and they agreed on
31:43is let's find out
31:44everything we can
31:45about this brother
31:46that died in 1985.
31:48If that individual
31:49perished in January
31:50of 1985
31:51we can eliminate him
31:52as a suspect.
31:53So I asked Arlington
31:54Police and Detective
31:55Kofra, I said
31:56can you find out
31:56everything you can
31:57on this individual
31:58named Bernard LaSalle Sharp?
32:00And what was revealed
32:01is in November 3rd
32:03of 1985
32:03Bernard Sharp
32:05had broken
32:06a window of his
32:07soon-to-be
32:07ex-wife's home,
32:08had killed her,
32:10a cousin,
32:11and critically wound
32:12to the third
32:12before turning
32:13the gun on himself.
32:15It just told us
32:15this individual
32:16has a propensity
32:17for violence
32:17and we need to look
32:18further into this
32:19individual.
32:22I was sitting
32:24at my desk
32:25and I remember
32:26Special Agent Webb
32:28contacting me.
32:30He calls me
32:30asking about
32:31a murder-suicide
32:32that had occurred
32:33in November of 1985
32:35and he wanted
32:36all the information
32:37that I could possibly
32:38find on it.
32:39and I remember
32:39being puzzled
32:40and I ended up
32:41calling him
32:42and why do you
32:43want information
32:44on a murder-suicide
32:45that occurred
32:46in 1985?
32:47And he tells me
32:49no, I think
32:50Bernard Sharp
32:51is who your suspect is.
32:54At last,
32:56investigators have
32:56identified a prime
32:57suspect,
32:59Bernard Sharp.
33:01But can they uncover
33:02the conclusive evidence
33:03needed to prove
33:04he's the man
33:05responsible
33:05for the brutal
33:06sexual assault
33:07and murder
33:08of Terry McAdams
33:09nearly 40 years ago?
33:21For nearly 40 years,
33:23the brutal murder
33:24of 22-year-old Terry McAdams
33:26remained a mystery.
33:28She was raped
33:28and bludgeoned
33:29to death
33:30in her fiancé's
33:31Arlington apartment
33:32in 1985.
33:34The case went cold
33:35for decades,
33:36but in 2023,
33:37Arlington police
33:38joined forces
33:39with the FBI
33:40to harness the power
33:41of investigative
33:42genetic genealogy.
33:44Using a DNA sample
33:46left by the killer
33:46and scouring
33:47public ancestral databases,
33:50they finally uncovered
33:51a possible suspect
33:52named Bernard Sharp.
33:54Bernard Sharp grew
33:59up in Fort Worth.
34:00He had a criminal record,
34:02but not an extensive one.
34:04I believe he had been arrested
34:05for sexual assault
34:07of a child,
34:08possibly a relative,
34:09and he lived quietly
34:12under the radar
34:13for most of his life.
34:14His father was a banker,
34:16and he lived
34:18in a very nice home
34:20with a good family.
34:22There were kind of two sides
34:23to Bernard Sharp.
34:25There was the side
34:26of, you know,
34:28a business owner,
34:29a maintenance man,
34:30always having a smile
34:31on his face,
34:31cracking jokes,
34:33and then there was
34:33the other side,
34:34the private side,
34:35that people may not
34:36have actually known,
34:38where he was
34:38a very violent person
34:40and just really seemed
34:42to not have any regard
34:43for women.
34:44We knew Bernard Sharp
34:46lived in Arlington
34:48in 1985.
34:49We knew he had been involved
34:50in other crimes,
34:51and we knew
34:52that there was a connection
34:53to the apartment complex
34:54because he had been
34:55doing maintenance work.
34:58It transpires
34:59that Bernard Sharp
35:00was on the original
35:01suspect list
35:02back in 1985
35:03and had been interviewed
35:04by police
35:05prior to his murder-suicide.
35:08Bernard Sharp
35:09was interviewed
35:09based solely
35:10on his criminal record,
35:12and I believe
35:13from reading the notes
35:14he refused
35:15to provide
35:16a hair sample,
35:17but he was on
35:19a long list
35:20of suspects.
35:22At the end
35:23of 1985
35:24in November,
35:25he and his wife
35:27had separated.
35:28They had had
35:29a heated relationship,
35:31separated multiple times,
35:32and he had gone
35:33back into their home
35:34without her knowledge
35:36and waited
35:37for her to come home.
35:38She was there
35:39with her best friend
35:40and a cousin,
35:41and her baby
35:42and older daughter
35:43were also in the home.
35:44He had overheard
35:46a phone call
35:46in which she had
35:47been talking about him.
35:48He pulled out a gun
35:49and she realized
35:50what was going to happen,
35:52and she begged him
35:53to consider their baby
35:54that was in the other room,
35:55and he shot her,
35:57shot her best friend,
35:59shot her cousin,
36:00and then he killed himself.
36:02Well, this individual
36:03died in 1885,
36:05and public records
36:06are telling me
36:07that he killed
36:08his ex-wife,
36:10a cousin of hers,
36:11critically wounded
36:12another one
36:12and took his own life.
36:13We need to find
36:14the case file for this
36:15because if that individual
36:17has this propensity
36:18for violence,
36:20he could be our guy.
36:22When I heard this
36:24and when I looked
36:25into his case,
36:26we knew we were
36:27onto something.
36:28The crimes that he was
36:29also arrested for,
36:30a sexual assault,
36:32and he also lived
36:34in the area,
36:34and he was a maintenance man,
36:36and he really stood out
36:37during the investigation.
36:40While detectives
36:41grow increasingly confident
36:42that Bernard Sharp
36:44is Terry's killer,
36:45they still need
36:45a conclusive DNA match
36:47to prove it.
36:49To achieve that,
36:49they devise a plan
36:50to locate a living relative
36:52and obtain a DNA sample
36:53for comparison.
36:57Well, reading those
36:58publicly found articles
37:00on the death
37:00of Bernard Sharp
37:01and the case file,
37:02we knew that there
37:03was a three-month-old
37:04biological child
37:06of Bernard Sharp
37:06present during
37:07that homicide,
37:08and so I requested
37:10the help of
37:11University of North Texas'
37:12Center for Human Identification.
37:14I gave them the situation
37:16and said,
37:17if I bring you
37:17a known reference sample,
37:19could you compare that
37:21to our suspect DNA
37:22and basically run
37:23a reverse paternity test?
37:25And they informed me,
37:25absolutely,
37:26we could do that.
37:27The hard part was,
37:28now we have to locate
37:29this grown adult
37:31who was three months
37:32at the time,
37:33is not going to remember
37:33any of this information
37:34about the homicide
37:35of her mother
37:36and the suicide
37:38of her father.
37:39So we started doing
37:40research on where
37:42she could be located,
37:43and once Detective Cofer
37:46and I located her,
37:47we had to speak
37:48to our chain of commands
37:49and get approval
37:49to travel to interview
37:51this individual.
37:52Detective Cofer
37:53came in my office
37:54and said,
37:55Chief, we got a lead.
37:57Detective Cofer
37:58told me his name
37:59was Bernard Sharp,
38:00and I could see
38:01the excitement
38:02on his face,
38:03and it got me
38:03really excited.
38:04because I knew
38:05this was a chance
38:07to really solve
38:08the case.
38:09They wanted to fly
38:10to the Northeast
38:11because they had located
38:12some potential
38:13family members there
38:14and that they wanted
38:15to go up there
38:15and interview them
38:16and see if they
38:17could get a DNA swab
38:19from one of the
38:19family members.
38:21We generally like
38:22to do in-person interviews.
38:24That shows
38:25the human emotions
38:26that a telephone call
38:27cannot provide.
38:29This is a very
38:30serious emotional event
38:32for most people,
38:33and we want to be
38:36in front of them
38:36when we show them
38:38all the circumstances
38:39and brief them
38:39on the investigation
38:40of why we're here.
38:43With approval
38:44from the higher-ups,
38:45the detectives fly out
38:46to meet the daughter
38:47of Bernard Sharp
38:48to try and confirm
38:49a DNA match.
38:50We landed at approximately
38:549 a.m., and we were
38:56not able to locate her
38:57until about 4 p.m.
38:59that afternoon,
39:00and that's when we
39:01developed a game plan
39:02of Detective Kofar
39:04is going to lay out
39:04the incidents
39:06of Terry McAdams'
39:08homicide,
39:09and then I'm going
39:10to come in and explain
39:11investigative genealogy
39:12and what brought us
39:14to your door today.
39:14We definitely had
39:17to immediately talk
39:18to her about
39:19why we heard her door,
39:21you know,
39:21why did we fly out,
39:23and made sure
39:24she see our credentials
39:25and made sure
39:26that, you know,
39:27she trusted the situation.
39:29Generally,
39:30these interviews
39:30start off
39:31a little standoffish,
39:32but she was
39:33more than welcoming.
39:34It was not her
39:35that answered the door.
39:36It was another female.
39:39During the interview
39:40with Sharp's daughter,
39:41detectives learn
39:42of another surviving
39:43family member
39:44who was present
39:45when Bernard shot
39:46three people,
39:47killing two of them
39:48before turning
39:48the gun on himself.
39:51The other individual
39:53that was in the home
39:53ended up being
39:54the stepdaughter
39:55that was present
39:56at the Bernard Sharp
39:58homicide in 1985,
40:00and she was 14 at the time,
40:02so she remembered
40:02the event pretty vividly,
40:04but she was able
40:05to give us
40:05a more in-depth look
40:06at Bernard Sharp,
40:08and it was an emotional
40:09event for both individuals.
40:12We immediately started
40:13talking about Bernard's life.
40:15I was told that
40:16he was a part
40:18of his own maintenance crew.
40:20I was told that
40:21he was a very violent man.
40:23The way he harassed women,
40:25you know,
40:25exposed himself
40:26in front of women
40:27in apartment complexes,
40:29that immediately
40:29started standing out.
40:31The conclusion
40:32of that interview,
40:33we were able
40:34to get additional information
40:36on Bernard Sharp
40:37and obtain a DNA sample
40:39from that daughter.
40:39I personally drove
40:43that sample
40:44from the airport
40:45in Dallas-Fort Worth
40:46straight to the laboratory
40:47and dropped it off,
40:49and then Detective Kofar
40:50and I sat and waited,
40:51because we didn't want
40:52to tell anyone too soon.
40:54We don't want to
40:56get anyone's hopes up
40:57until we have
40:58that 100% confirmation
40:59that this is our suspect.
41:03Investigators deliver
41:04the DNA sample
41:05from Sharp's daughter
41:06for testing,
41:07anxiously awaiting
41:08the result.
41:11Detective Kofar
41:12and I received
41:12an email at the same time
41:14confirming that Bernard Sharp
41:16was our suspect.
41:18I was in my office
41:19when Detective Kofar
41:20came in and told me
41:21that it was a match
41:22to Bernard Sharp,
41:24that the cigarette butt
41:25in the apartment
41:25was Bernard Sharp's.
41:27We discussed
41:28how much of a relief
41:31it was,
41:31but then we immediately
41:32started planning.
41:34Now we need to notify
41:35the Sharp family
41:37that this information
41:38is about to come out,
41:39and we also need to notify
41:41the Terry McAdams family.
41:42The phone rang.
41:43I saw Arlington PD
41:45on the phone,
41:46and I, you know,
41:47heart started racing,
41:48and I had a feeling
41:49that it was the call,
41:51and it was.
41:53So he just shared with me
41:55that they had found him.
41:59I didn't know
42:00at that moment
42:00whether the person
42:02was alive or dead,
42:02but that they knew
42:03for sure who it was.
42:05I was so joyful,
42:06but I was so sad, too.
42:08It was just a very,
42:10I didn't know what to do
42:11with the emotions
42:12that I was feeling.
42:15The motive, I, you know,
42:17I don't think
42:18that we'll ever really know.
42:19I think the motive
42:20was sexual in nature.
42:22I think his plan
42:23was to sexually assault Terry,
42:25and she fought back,
42:27and he couldn't have that.
42:29though investigators
42:32and Terry's family
42:33are disappointed
42:34that her killer
42:35will never face justice,
42:36they share a sense of relief
42:38now that the case
42:39is finally solved.
42:41The cold case team
42:42reflects on how
42:42this breakthrough
42:43would not have been possible
42:44without the power
42:45of investigative
42:46genetic genealogy.
42:49It was a great day
42:51to see the special agent
42:53in charge of the FBI,
42:54to see the police chief
42:55all come with Terry McAdams' sister
42:58and the rest of her family.
43:00I truly enjoyed
43:02getting to see
43:05how happy their family was.
43:08I think the reaction
43:09was very well received
43:11by our community.
43:12I think it shows
43:13our community
43:14the commitment we have
43:16to providing answers
43:17and justice
43:18to victims of crime.
43:20I think it also gives
43:21other homicide victims
43:23hope that we can also
43:24solve their case.
43:25The detectives in 1985
43:28did everything
43:30they could have done
43:31and did it well.
43:33I believe investigative
43:33genetic genealogy
43:35is the present
43:36and future
43:37of solving
43:38these cold case
43:39homicide
43:40and sexual assaults,
43:42unidentified human remains.
43:43When the leads
43:45have run out,
43:46when there's no tools
43:47left available,
43:49if there's raw DNA present,
43:50I believe any case
43:52can be solved.
43:52I believe there's
43:55always something
43:55that can be found.
43:57It may not be something
43:58that we realize
43:59at the time,
44:00but we leave traces
44:02of ourselves
44:03wherever we go.
44:06I never met
44:07a family in my career
44:08who was so optimistic,
44:11who was so loving,
44:12who was so caring.
44:13Not just checking
44:14on the case,
44:15but would call
44:16and just check on me.
44:18You know,
44:18how you doing?
44:19You okay?
44:19That has never happened
44:21in my career whatsoever
44:22and I've been doing it
44:23for approximately 10 years
44:25and they still do it
44:26to this day.
44:28I'm amazed
44:29at how they can take
44:31something that small
44:33and put it into a database
44:34and like building
44:36a huge puzzle.
44:37It's mind-boggling to me,
44:40but it means everything
44:41to me now
44:42because it's how
44:43we found our answers.
44:45I'm very grateful
44:46for that technology.
44:47We wouldn't be here
44:49without it.
44:50For our department,
44:51we're always trying
44:53to be innovative
44:53and trying to find
44:55a way to move cases forward
44:57and if it's something
44:58that we're able
44:59to move forward
45:00with genetic genealogy
45:01or any new technology
45:02that comes to us,
45:03we're going to try it.
45:06Do I have closure?
45:10That's a word
45:11that I don't really
45:12think is real
45:13because I think,
45:15to me, closure
45:15feels like it's complete
45:17and this will never
45:19go away.
45:20Have I found peace?
45:22Yes.
45:23I'm at peace
45:24with knowing
45:25the answer that we have
45:26and I'm at peace
45:27with knowing
45:28that He's no longer
45:29walking this earth.
45:30My firstborn
45:32is a daughter
45:32and I had said years ago
45:35that if I ever had
45:36a daughter,
45:36I would name her
45:37after Terry
45:39and so she is.
45:40She's 28 years old
45:42and her name
45:43is Terry Ann.
45:44She definitely lives
45:46on in our family.
45:46She's never been forgotten.
45:48We share stories
45:49and my children
45:50have always known
45:51who their Aunt Terry was.
45:53and her name
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