The Lina Reyes-Geddes Cold Case Homicide Solved After 24 Years Pt 3

Does your crime lab have all the latest technologies that would enable it to solve a crime committed against you?

Odds are it doesn't. Especially if it's a public lab.

Of course, they do their best and are experts with what they have, but time after time cold cases are being solved as new technologies emerge.

And most public labs take a while before they are able to get those latest and greatest techs.

One of those newer and very powerful technologies is the M-Vac system.

Why is it the key that is unlocking so many cases?

Because forensic DNA is becoming the gold standard and no tool in the world can collect more surface DNA material than the M-Vac, which is oftentimes leading to a DNA profile that couldn't be obtained before.

In the Lina Reyes-Geddes case, investigators were able to collect 117 ng of DNA material from a rope that had been tested by the state lab multiple times in the past with zero results.

And that was the big break they needed to solve the case!

Lina Reyes-Davis went missing on April 8th, 1998. At the time she lived in Youngstown, Ohio, with her husband, Edward Geddes.

12 days later, over 2,000 miles away in a remote area just north of Lake Powell, Utah, two men found a body by the side of the road.

But no one knew it was Lina.

Her body had been tied up, frozen, wrapped in plastic and duct tape, and placed in a sleeping bag all rolled up in some carpet. And her fingertips had been removed so investigators could not identify her by fingerprints.

Her "loving husband" never reported her missing. The only way authorities knew to begin looking for her was because one of her relatives in Mexico called the Youngstown PD and said she had never made it to visit them.

Lina had disappeared and her husband, Edward committed suicide 3 yrs later. Did the guilt get to him?

Fast forward 20 years. Investigators from the Utah State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) had reopened the case several times with no breakthroughs. The Maidenwater Jane Doe case remained unsolved.

Detective Brian Davis was assigned the case in 2016.

How did he solve the case? By teaming up with other detectives and experts to finally put all the pieces together!

Incredible thin threads link enough pieces together that Det Davis and the detective in Youngstown Ohio were able to identify her. Is it all a coincidence?

Before you watch or listen to part 3, you should really go watch part 1 and 2 of this fascinating interview!

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All Things Crime is a new, comprehensive video series that will explore every aspect of crime and the ensuing investigation, one video interview at a time. The host, Jared Bradley, is the President of M-Vac Systems, which is a wet-vacuum based forensic DNA collection system, and has experience traveling the world training all levels of law enforcement and crime lab DNA analysts in using the M-Vac to help solve crime. Along the way he has met people from all walks of life and experience in investigating crimes, so is putting that knowledge to use in another way by sharing it in these videos.

If you are interested in more videos about the M-Vac, DNA and investigations, also check out the M-Vac's channel @https://www.youtube.com/c/MVacSystems...

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