Jeanne Childs | The Published Pen https://thepublishedpen.com Minnesota Crimes Tue, 24 Sep 2019 02:02:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://thepublishedpen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/favicon-e1571262181425.ico Jeanne Childs | The Published Pen https://thepublishedpen.com 32 32 Jeanne Childs Murder 1993 https://thepublishedpen.com/jeanne-childs-murder-1993/ Mon, 18 Feb 2019 03:00:13 +0000 http://thepublishedpen.com/?p=937 In 1993 Jeanne Childs, who worked as a pro-stitute, was found dead in her Pillsbury Avenue apartment after a tenant complained that there was water...

The post Jeanne Childs Murder 1993 first appeared on The Published Pen.]]> In 1993 Jeanne Childs, who worked as a pro-stitute, was found dead in her Pillsbury Avenue apartment after a tenant complained that there was water running into his unit. Apartment staff went into the upstairs apartment, saw a significant amount of blood and then located Childs’ body inside a running shower. She had been stabbed more than two dozen times, some of the wounds coming after she was already dead.

 

 

Jerry Weston was arrested after his DNA found on a napkin when he was at a hockey game. He used a napkin then threw it away, and they got enough DNA off of the napkin.  Investigators used a genealogy website to match the DNA.

Westrom was taken into custody and a more complete DNA sample was taken. That sample was matched with a number of samples taken from Childs’ apartment, including DNA left on a washcloth, a sperm cell left on a comforter, and others. Prosecutors say more than 99 percent of the population can be excluded as being suspects in Childs’ death.

Weston claims he doesn’t know Childs but his supposed DNA was in her apartment after the murder.  It has been said that Weston was in the Minneapolis area in the 1990’s as he had been arrested in connection to other pro-stitutes.

 

I’ll update this story as soon as more info is released!

 

 

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