A self-described predator-loathing motorcyclist helped snag a West Michigan man who thought he was hooking up with an 11-year-old girl for sex at a popular suburban park, court records show.
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Office of Public Affairs | Former CIA Officer Joshua Adam Shulte Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison for Espionage and Child Pornography Charges | United States Department of Justice
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After more than four decades, a murdered woman whose remains were found in Hernando County, Florida has been identified as Peggy Joyce Shelton of Kentucky. Since 1972, Hernando County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case detectives continued to investigate the case in hopes she could be identified.

This is how the i.d. was accomplished:

In 2022, Hernando County Sheriff’s Office submitted forensic evidence to Othram in The Woodlands, Texas in hopes that advanced DNA testing and forensic genetic genealogy could generate new investigative leads in the case. Othram scientists successfully developed a DNA extract from the skeletal remains and used Forensic-Grade Genome Sequencing® to develop a comprehensive DNA profile. Othram’s in-house forensic genetic genealogy team then used the DNA profile to generate new leads in the case.

https://dnasolves.com/articles/peggy-joyce-shelton-florida/

I realize developing a DNA extract from skeletal remains is different from developing DNA from clothing and other evidence that was stored like a hoarder stashes shit in a garage, and that there is allegedly no blood from an offender and somehow no semen sample to test. Hernando County reached out to Othram in a 52-year-old unidentified victim case. Why won’t the MSP reach out to Othram for one last attempt in the OCCK case? 

Did you know that DNA recovery is possible even when bloodstained clothing is washed? https://www.floridaforensicscience.com/review-cant-hide-encoded-evidence-dna-recovery-fabrics-washing/#:~:text=Regardless of washing method or,fabrics, i.e. 100% cotton. In testing, DNA was recovered from all fabric, regardless of washing time or method. 

I’d like to say I’m sure the Michigan state lab tested Mark Stebbin’s clothing to make sure all of the blood on his clothing was his. Just like I’d like to think they tested the tampon Jill was wearing, even though there is no direct mention of it in the evidence spreadsheet. 

There is mention of semen on Mark’s autopsy. But that is the only place it has ever been mentioned. A partial Y-str DNA sample was developed in the past decade from the vaginal swab from Kristine.  Y-STRs are taken specifically from the male Y chromosome.

I have long suspected chicanery in the conduct of Kristine’s autopsy. It could have been couched in terms of squelching public panic, but I don’t believe for a minute that what issued from the office of medical examiner Robert Sillery was anything other than a reworked version that was more palatable to Brooks Patterson. 

Evidence disappeared in this case–the drawing of the screaming boy, the ropes from Chris Busch’s bedroom floor. I think other evidence probably disappeared or was “misfiled” as David Norberg’s corpse was being unearthed in 1999 to compare his DNA “to one hair” from my brother’s body, as authorities tried to get out ahead of this new DNA business before anybody started taking a closer look. DNA testing would be a big problem to an agency or agencies that really didn’t need/want answers. While no one could foresee the discovery of DNA and its use in forensics back in 1977, in 1999 it was a lot easier to anticipate the testing leaps on the horizon. I believe that anticipation did not motivate a careful accounting of all of the evidence in this massive unsolved serial murder case, nor more appropriate storage procedures. Perhaps it had the opposite effect. 

It doesn’t make me feel any better that police apparently routinely lose evidence in open homicide cases. Troy Police or the Michigan state lab lost the nightgown and robe Troy resident Gail Webster was wearing when she was brutally bludgeoned to death in 1978. You might argue that was then and this is now–except it doesn’t apply. In the probable murder of JoAnn Matouk Romain in 2010, a scarf that fell off a man seen running from the area she was last seen was donated to charity. Apparently Grosse Pointe Farms PD keeps accurate records of their charitable donations.

Why is the evidence in these child murders deemed unworthy of further testing? Sorenson Forensics uses an M-Vac System to extract DNA evidence from difficult samples, including those that have been tested before. https://sorensonforensics.com/m-vac-collection/#:~:text=The M-Vac is a,later concentrated onto a filter. Having some garden variety desk jockey tell me that none of this will work isn’t good enough. Why will no one account for what has been done and what has not been done with the evidence in these four murder cases? If it all has been deemed unworthy of further testing, who will go on the record and tell us why? 

And why hasn’t the MSP used their university affiliates at MSU and WMU to digitize the OCCK case as they have in other cold cases? Below are screen shots of the OCCK files from the documentary Children of the Snow. In this state, the documents and files are worthless. (Where’s the fucking step ladder?) It is shameful.