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Episode #434

How Many Last Names Are There?

#434 How Many Last Names Are There?
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Georgia:

The murders of Jennifer Bastian and Michella Welch

Episode sources:

  1. In My DNA, by Lindsey Wade

  2. “Evil Was Watching” (“Dateline,” Season 27, Episode 27)

  3. “Taken in Tacoma” (“Cold Case Files,” Season 3, Episode 6)

  4. “Tacoma Police Release Composite Images of Suspects in 1986 Slayings” by Stacia Glenn (The News Tribune, April 7, 2016)

  5. “Michella Welch and Jenni Bastian killings: Tacoma detectives never gave up cold case” by Michelle Madigan (NBC News, April 5, 2019)

  6. “Michella Welch Timeline” (Tacoma Police via KOMO News)

  7. “Jennifer Bastian Timeline” (Tacoma Police via KOMO News)

  8. “All blue binders: Homicide detective retires with all cases solved” by Stacia Glenn (The News Tribune, January 3, 2015)

  9. “The man who killed Jennifer Bastian in 1986 in Tacoma has been sentenced” by Alexis Krell (The News Tribune, October 28, 2021)

  10. “Court file: DNA on restaurant napkin led to suspect in 1986 killing of Tacoma girl” (KOMO News, June 22, 2018)

  11. “Another decades-old Tacoma murder solved? Suspected killer of 12-year-old Michella Welch arrested” by Stacia Glenn, Kenny Ocker and Sean Robinson (The News Tribune, March 22, 2022)

  12. “‘Finally ... a bit of closure’: Mom, sisters of slain Michella Welch in court to see suspect in 1986 murder” by Steve Kiggins (Fox 13, June 25, 2018)

  13. “How DNA on napkin led to arrest in cold-case 1986 rape and murder of 12-year-old girl“ by Emily Shapiro (ABC News, June 25, 2018)

  14. “Murder of Michella Welch” (Parabon Nanolabs)

  15. “High-tech DNA analysis yields sketches of Tacoma girls' 1986 killers“ (KOMO News, April 6th 2016)

  16. “Who Killed 2 Washington Pre-Teens Who Disappeared On Bike Rides Months Apart In 1986?” by Jill Sederstrom (Oxygen True Crime, April 6, 2022)

  17. “Family of Tacoma girl murdered in 1986 faces suspect in court “(KING, June 24, 2018)

  18. “Washington's new DNA law named for two murdered Tacoma girls” by Drew Mikkelsen (KING, May 21, 2019)

 
 

 
 

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