Suspect in Martinko murder not suspected in wife's death or cousin's disappearance, Bobcats and beyond are wearing orange to support Benton Communitys Tatum Schroeder, UIHC library offers resources for and about people with disabilities. Place of rest will be in the Dickson County Memorial Gardens. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and is currently being held at the Anamosa State Penitentiary. The sample was put into a national computer database and was used to clear more than 70 of Martinkos acquaintances, according to NBC News. Jerry Lynn Burns. Want a job? Burns seemed to have a 'fetish for these violent, sexual themes, Cedar Rapids police Investigator Jeff Holst testified. Hi all - I discuss the case of Michelle Martinko, who was murdered in 1979 in Iowa, this week on DNA: ID podcast. Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. A few days later, the Saints fell. Detectives considered charging the Commissioner with failure to pass along the information to police, but no charges were pursued. Unfortunately, this led the police nowhere at the time and the case gradually got cold. He asked Burns for a sample of his DNA, but Burns said no - not without an attorney. She had looked into the parking lot as she drove by to check for her daughter's car because her daughter worked at the mall and had had car trouble before. Denlinger interviewed Burns at his business. Allison said he and Burns had a good relationship at first but it eventually turned sour. Sexual Assault of Unnamed Victim (12) . Lives in Tyler, Texas. Janelle Stonebraker, Michelle's older sister, thinks that by fighting so vehemently that the suspect wounded himself and left his DNA behind, Michelle contributed to the investigation into her own murder. Currently, in his late 60s, he is going to spend the rest of his days behind bars. He is survived by his wife, Lydia Lynn; his oldest son, Scott Lynn; and his ch [2][5] Her hands bore defensive wounds, which police said to indicate that she had fought back against her killer. [16] Based on cash found in Martinko's purse, police concluded that she had not been robbed. Jerry Lynn Burns (defendant-appellant), which is before the Iowa Supreme Court. Burns' wife, Patricia . Mail, proper postage prepaid, addressed to Jerry L. Burns, No. In 2006, a new cold case investigator working for the Cedar Rapids Police Department was tipped with an update. Might be nothing, but Jerry has a cousin who went missing in 2013 and it has become a cold case and Jerry's wife committed suicide in 2008. Teen Michelle Martinko was stabbed to death in 1979. Ken and Don were not a match but Jerry Burns' DNA was a match, to an almost perfect scientific certainty. Court is scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m.. [7] Eventually, more than 125 people would have their DNA swabbed and compared against samples taken from the scene. After tracing the suspect's family tree, investigators zeroed in on Burns, covertly collected his DNA and sent it to a lab for analysis, according to Moore and Jerman. His trial was originally scheduled for October 14, 2019, but in September the defense requested a delay in order to gather more evidence and interview witnesses. jerry lynn burns defendant-appellant. Ahead of the Dateline NBC episode about her death, heres what you need to know about the crime, the perpetrator, and what sentence he received at trial. [6] In September 2020, Burns filed a notice of appeal. Allison, who's being . He began working with Parabon NanoLabs, now a leading company helping police solve crimes through genetic tracing. Thank you!! However, the case gradually grew cold as the investigation stretched on. This "tragic case" had been "haunting this community for 39 years," Cedar Rapids Police Chief Wayne Jerman said Wednesday. The prosecution did not resist either request, and the trial was rescheduled for February 10, 2020 in Scott County. But the jury found the DNA connection convincing and after a nine-day trial, Burns was convicted of first-degree murder. On Dec. 19, 1979, Michelle Martinko, 18, left a school banquet and drove her family's car to the Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to buy a winter coat, Cedar Rapids police said. [16] Another rumor emerged that a second stabbing had happened in the following days and that police were keeping it secret, which police denied. Born in 1953, Jerry Lynn Burns grew up in Manchester, Iowa, and graduated from West Delaware High School in 1972. The defense brought only one witness, a self-described forensic DNA consultant, who testified on the possibility that police could have mishandled the evidence. Police interviewed numerous people, and several were cleared of suspicion through use of a polygraph. Powered by. Jerry Burns may be a hitched man, having a . [2], Jerry Lynn Burns (born December 23, 1953[13]) was 25 years old when he killed Michelle Martinko in December 1979. Jerry Burns. Would love your thoughts, please comment. Almost 40 years later, with the help of DNA Technology, the culprit was nabbed and justice was finally served to Martinko and her grieving family. Even though the police were tipped over 200 times in the weeks following the murder, the case eventually grew cold as investigations stretched on. Jerry Burns. His hands and arms were also examined for scars possibly left by the assumed cut sustained during the attack. People who have worked on this game have also collaborated on the creation of the following games: Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire, a group of 68 people. In 2018, Jerry Lynn Burns was finally arrested and charged with the teen's murder and, although it had been decades after the crime, the once cold case is now a subject of discussion on A&E's Killer Cases. [24], In 2018, the DNA phenotyping company took the data they had collected the year before and entered it into GEDmatch, a public genealogy website that has been used by law enforcement to solve other cold cases, most famously that of the Golden State Killer. Denlinger does NOT believe Burns is responsible for Jodi Huisentruit - rather that he admired/fantasized about whatever happened to her. Linn. The trial was then moved to February 2020. On May 29, 2020, Burns' attorneys filed a motion asking for a new trial, claiming his constitutional and . The lab determined that the DNA collected from Burns was a match to DNA from the blood found on Michelle Martinko's clothing and was consistent with the DNA profile developed from blood found elsewhere in the car, Jerman said. I miss all her singing and her beautiful music. Be the first one to comment on this story. [28] The defense also requested that evidence pertaining to Burns' cell phone browser history be suppressed. "I cried a lot and I looked out windows all hours of the night," Martinko's mother, Janet Martinko, told Cedar Rapids' CBS station in 1987. He lived in Manchester at the time of his arrest in 2020 and owned a powder coating business in the city. On the eve of December 19, 1979, an 18-year-old high school student named Michelle Martinko was discovered dead in her family's car outside a mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. The organizations filing the brief contend that the collection of Mr. Burn's DNA without a warrant from a discarded straw he used at a restaurant violated the Fourth Amendment, and article I, section 8 of the Iowa Constitution. She had been stabbed 21 times in the face, neck, and chest. Jerry Burns, busy back in Minneapolis, wasn't on the guest list that time. Your login session has expired. After weeks pursuing a wide range of possible blood relatives, Parabon helped him narrow the search down to three middle-aged brothers in Iowa who would have been young men back in 1979: Ken, Don and Jerry Burns. I've been reading up on this case and was wondering if they profiled this guy? Reporter covering state and federal courts. But her sister Janelle and Janelles husband John Stonebaker were present at Burns sentencing. The similarities were eerie two pretty, young women, both meeting their final fate in parking lots in Iowa, 16 years apart, in cases that went unsolved for decades. Accountability doled out to suspects. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, Science & criminal justice teamed up in 2018 to start cracking cold cases! Dr. Obrecht Learns if She's a Bone Marrow Match for Willow Plus, Nikolas' Whereabouts Are Revealed. Denlinger took over the case in 2015, part of a second generation of cops who had struggled for decades to solve this seemingly unsolvable murder. Burns repeatedly said he didn't know how his DNA was found at the crime scene. The woman communicated her information to the daughter of the secretary of the Public Safety Commissioner and believed that it would be passed on to police if it was important. Jerry Lynn Burns will raise two . County, FL. The police used the information to create a partial DNA profile. Sign Up. Like all the cases I cover, Michelles was solved using forensic genealogy, which led police to Jerry Lynn Burns. Jerry Burns enters the courtroom in 2020 (Image via We Are Iowa) Burns was born in Manchester, Iowa in 1953 and graduated from West . [15], On the evening of December 19, 1979, Martinko attended a banquet for the Kennedy Concert Choir at the Sheraton Inn in Cedar Rapids. [36][37], On August 7, 2020, Burns was sentenced to life in prison without parole. December . On December 20, 2018, a district judge set his bond at $5 million. Her mother, Janet, died in 1998. The wait ended Monday, when a jury convicted Jerry Lynn Burns of first-degree murder in the 1979 stabbing death of 18-year-old Martinko. "I did not see this day coming," Franzman said on a broadcast this week. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. . At the department, Burns sked for a lawyer. Life legacy Wallace Jerry Huggins Funeral services will be Tuesday April 11, 2017 at 1 PM from the Chapel of the Taylor Funeral Home with Bro. According to the investigator, "Burns showed almost no emotion during the interview, even when he was eventually told he was being arrested. The murder of Michelle Martinko in the parking lot of Cedar Rapids' Westdale Mall has some eerie connections to the Huisentruit case. Thirty-nine years to the day after she was killed, a suspect was charged thanks to DNA and genetic genealogy. An investigator with the Cedar Rapids police department contacted DNA-tested members of two of the branches of the family tree, and eliminated those branches as containing the killer. He was arrested Wednesday on the exact day Martinko was last seen alive. Some thought that Martinko had received harassing phone calls before her death, but police stated that they did not think so. Her killer will go undetected for almost 40yrs! But it was another technique from Parabon -- genetic genealogy -- that led investigators to Burns, CeCe Moore, Parabon's chief genetic genealogist, told ABC News. The police never received the information, and the woman did not contact police until months later, when they reissued a call for any information connected to the murder. We need somebody from their family to have tested in order to resolve these cases.". Burns has hired a very high profile attorney and has said he plans to appeal his conviction, which was very largely based on the DNA evidence. His ex-wife, Patricia, committed suicide in 2008, and his cousin Brian Burns astonishingly disappeared. Denlinger said they went to Burns' business, Advanced Powder Coating Concepts in Manchester, and he agreed to talk with them. At the time of her death, police had found Martinko stabbed to death in her car in a local mall parking lot. A Felony. In October 2018, DNA was covertly collected from an Iowa man, Jerry Lynn Burns, and was found to match the sample discovered on Martinko's clothing. Questions have been raised as to whether Jerry was involved in any other murders or missing person cases. Last . family - he had 3 kids - tough to sneak away for 4 hours when you have kids unless he was on a business trip. Jerry Burns stands with his lawyer Leon Spies (right) during a recess in the continuation of a suppression hearing for evidence in the case of Burns of Manchester at the Linn County Courthouse in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Nicholas Curran . [7] Martinko was the younger of two daughters of Albert F. Martinko and Janet Martinko (ne Zillig). Jerry's hobbies included working on vehicles, hunting, fishing, racing cars, gardening, and working in the yard. Jeremy Lynn (born June 12, 1963), better known by the ring name Jerry Lynn, is an American retired professional wrestler currently signed with All Elite Wrestling as a producer and coach. [10] A police spokesman estimated that in the week after Martinko's murder, more than 200 people responded to the detectives' appeals in the news for information concerning the case. Burns kept pointing to the swab, he testified, and saying, 'Test it. Vikings PR. This narrowed down the possible suspects to three brothers - Ken, Don, and Jerry Burns. [11] As the investigation dwindled, a $10,000 reward was offered for information that would lead police to the killer. They then used genealogical data as well as a covertly collected DNA sample from Burns to positively identify him, authorities said. Hernando . Police looked at numerous suspects during the initial investigation, including a man who raped a woman at knifepoint and later died while in prison for that crime, but DNA testing ruled him out. [35] On May 29, 2020, Burns' attorneys filed a motion asking for a new trial, claiming his constitutional and state rights were violated and that the court made a mistake in overruling the request for evidence to be suppressed. Blond / All American Girls - Jodi was a bit older. He was around 25 when he killed Martinko in 1979. Visitation with the family will be Monday April 10th from 4 to 8 PM and on. Things that make it difficult. Denlinger recorded him using a camera that was hidden inside a coffee mug. [32] Prosecutors also played a video of a police interview of Burns, in which he denied being at the crime scene on the night of Martinko's murder, and could not explain how his DNA had been found at the scene. See Photos. The majority of the search activity and history on Burns' computer was sexually graphic and more 'deviant in nature, said Holst, who investigates sex crimes and internet crimes against children. LEON SPIES: The state's scenario here is that Jerry Burns, a married man with two young children at home, leaves, drives to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the night, leaving his wife and children behind . The detective, Denlinger, told me that he believes Jerry Burns has been reliving the murder in his fantasies ever since, but they have never been able to tie him to any other homicides. Jerry Burns. But then Denlinger's supervisor, who had been listening to the recorded interview from across the street with other officers, sent Denlinger text message telling him to arrest Burns. And the crucial link is a man named Jerry Burns. The detective looked through the case files and found what he thought to be the murderer's blood. The first piece of progress in the case came in 2006 when a sample of the suspect's DNA from Michelle Martinko's car was submitted to a lab for processing, police said. Jerry A. Burns, age 69, of Bryan, Texas went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 10:56 p.m. The case was solved, but there were lingering questions about Jerry Burns. A jailhouse informant also testified in the case Tuesday. Allison says Burns threatened him one day after a winning streak. Jerry Burns is still behind bars . [3] The brothers were placed under surveillance, and investigators began to attempt to collect their DNA secretly. A juvenile found carrying a knife was interviewed and ruled out in her murder, as was a shopping center employee who had told police that he enjoyed following women and ogling store mannequins. Jerry Lynn Burns will be in prison for the rest of his days. Parabon made predictions for "ancestry, eye color, hair color, skin color, freckling, and face shape," police said, and the department released the composite images to the public in May 2017. Police had searched his computer after arresting him, and found a history of searches pertaining to nefarious subjects including the murder of blonde women, and pornographic matter involving blonde women. A funeral service for Jerry Calvin Lynn, 78, will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, July 16, 2022, at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, 2201 Airline Drive, Bossier City, Louisiana. Her death was ruled a suicide. According to court documents, a judge has ruled internet search history from the man accused in a 1979 murder will not be able to be used during trial. After the arrest this week of Jerry Burns in the 1979 killing of 18-year-old Michelle Martinko, an Iowa city is left shocked, saddened, and skeptical. In December 1979, Martinko, a high school senior who was on the twirling squad at Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, went to the recently opened Westdale Mall after her choir banquet at school to buy a new winter coat. timing. FILE - In a Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020 file photo, Jerry Burns enters the courtroom during the continuation of a suppression hearing for evidence in the case of Burns of Manchester at the Linn County . Investigators matched DNA found in the car to Jerry Burns and arrested him in 2018. 2. Burns was born in Manchester, Iowa in 1953 and graduated from West Delaware High School in 1972. 'As far as I know, I wasn't there.. Murderer Jerry Lynn Burns was not caught for almost 40 years. They had investigated more than 100 people over the years, and all were dead ends. [9] The killer left no fingerprints, which led police to believe they had worn gloves. In earlier testimony, Matthew Denlinger, a Cedar Rapids police investigator who testified last week, was recalled to testify about Burns' interview with police Dec. 19, 2018. The detective on the case, Matt Denlinger, gave me some interesting details. Doug Larison to reexamine the file and find what he believed to be the killers DNA in blood found on Martinkos dress that was not her blood. Jerry Burns on Trial AP Jerry Burns of Manchester, Iowa, is led into the courtroom during closing arguments for his trial at the Scott County Courthouse in Davenport, Iowa on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. Jerry Lynn Burns, 64, was arrested Wednesday and . . He entered a plea of not guilty. Lives in Brentwood, Arkansas. [11][18] In the year after the killing, the number of people interviewed by police reached the hundreds, and up to 30 people were interviewed under hypnosis. He testified last week he took the straw after it was discarded. Just before his arrest, Burns, unsolicited, mentioned the name of missing Iowa anchor Jodi Huisentruit as he was being questioned about the Martinko case. In 2018, familial DNA identified a suspect named Jerry Lynn Burns, and the case was finally laid to rest with the accused getting sentenced to life in prison without parole. The video of that is on YouTube and is mentioned around the 25:28 mark. [2], On October 29, 2018, an investigator observed one of the brothers, Jerry Lynn Burns, drink multiple sodas using a plastic straw. And I went 'bingo'.". Jerry Lynn Burns, 64, of Manchester, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder on Wednesday, nearly 40 years after the brutal murder of 18-year-old Michelle Martinko in the parking lot of Westdale Mall on December 19, 1979. [18][19], Controversy arose five months after the murder, after a woman who was driving by the mall parking lot in the early hours of December 20 came forward with information. Jerry retired from the Army National Guard and retired as a Master Plumber. A struggle followed in which Michelle was stabbed and sliced by a knife almost 30 times in a horrific murder that police initially believed had to be a crime of passion. The family of Jerry Burns would like to thank our friends and the Manchester community for the support we have received since Jerrys arrest, read the familys statement. Kayla Lemieux, the transgender high school teacher in Canada, has been put on paid leave after pictures emerged of her dressed as a man proving she does not wear the prosthetics all the time. Family and friends of Jerry Burns are seated in the courtroom at a sentencing hearing for Jerry Lynn Burns at the Linn County Courthouse in Cedar Rapids on Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. Jerry Burns stands with his lawyer Leon Spies (right) during a recess in the continuation of a suppression hearing for evidence in the case of Burns of Manchester at the Linn County Courthouse in . The primary evidence police had to go on was blood on Michelle's dress and on the car's gearshift that in 2005 was finally identified as male DNA. Authorities arrested 64-year-old Jerry Lynn Burns of Manchester this morning. And the crucial link is a man named Jerry Burns. Holst said that in reviewing Burns' computer, he found hundreds of searches and website visits - a pattern that happened several times a week. He was never charged with the Martinko murder, he denied the accusations, and DNA evidence, found later, did not match his DNA. The 55 year-old Delaware County man was last seen on December 19, 2013 - 34 years to the day of Martinko's murder. Jerry Lynn Burns faces a first degree murder charge in the killing of Michelle Martinko. [22][12] From that, police were able to build a partial DNA profile. This is what eventually helped authorities identify the culprit - Jerry Lynn Burns. Burns said when presented with the rendering. [28], After two days of jury selection, the murder trial began on February 12, 2020. [25] He refused to voluntarily provide a sample of DNA, but was compelled to do so with a search warrant. Denlinger said he intentionally chose that day to interview Burns because it was the anniversary of Martinko's death. In late June of 1995, Jodi Huisentruit, a young anchor at KIMT television in Mason City, Iowa, disappeared from the parking lot of her apartment building on the way to work, never to be seen again. "Hmm, strange," Burns responded when Cedar Rapids Police Investigator Matthew Denlinger told him he was a suspect for Martinko's death. 39 years later after the murder, a person named Jerry Lynn Burns was arrested in Manchester, Iowa, and charged with first-degree murder. Attorneys for Jerry Burns, convicted of the 1979 murder of Michelle Martinko, are continuing to fight DNA evidence they say the trial court erred in not supressing. But detectives had been stymied. Thanks to advances in technology and DNA evidence, a jury in an Iowa courthouse . [2] That narrowed the suspects down to a set of three brothers, who had grown up in Manchester, Iowa. Investigators matched DNA found in the car to Jerry Burns and arrested him in 2018. 'If I was there, I don't know, Burns told Denlinger. "It's always the boyfriend, the girlfriend, the husband someone really close to the person. A Manchester man convicted of first-degree murder has announced he has hired a new attorney who will seek to exonerate him of the crime, a private investigator has told the Manchester Press . Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. [2] Police determined from the lack of blood outside the car that Martinko had been killed while in the car, and the medical examiner later estimated she had died between 8 and 10p.m.[17] The murder weapon was "sharp-pointed" but not definitively a knife, and the medical examiner could not determine its size. While being questioned about . [2][4][27], In pretrial hearings, Burns' attorneys claimed that police needed a search warrant to gather his DNA from the discarded straw, but the judge determined that discarded property cannot reasonably be considered private. Investigators say Martinko was murdered on December 19th, 1979 and her body found the next day in a family car in the Westdale Mall parking lot. In a press conference during which the new image was shared, a former classmate of Martinko exclaimed that the face looked like another one of their classmates, but that classmate had been investigated and was cleared based on a DNA swab several years before. In his video interview with police right before his arrest, Burns, unsolicited, mentioned the name of Jodi Huisentruit as he was being questioned about the Martinko case. Jerry Burns is still behind bars on a $5 million cash bond, charged with first-degree murder in the 1979 murder of Michelle Martinko. The Delaware County Sheriff said it did review the case after Burns' arrest and "feels that was clearly the case.". Subscribe to the Public Safety newsletter. / CBS News. It wasn't until decades after the killing that investigators began to link the emotions of a motive with the science of DNA. This revealed everything, and Burns was ultimately declared guilty of first-degree murder. When the detectives first investigated this case, they thought of the homicide as being personal in nature - based on the 10 stab wounds . ", First published on November 6, 2020 / 8:47 AM. Investigators struggled over the years to connect DNA collected at the scene to a suspect. The results were entered into the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), the national DNA database, but no matches were found. Burns told the investigator about 25 times to test him, Denlinger said. During the investigation, the police assumed that there were personal motives involved in the murder due to the nature of Martinko's stab wounds. Jerry knew he was called to be a preacher at the age of 13 and after many years of arguing with God. In 2018, the company entered the DNA data from the case into the public genealogy website GEDmatch, where it found a familial DNA match. Like all the cases I cover, Michelle's was solved using forensic genealogy, which led police to Jerry Lynn Burns. [26] He was not able to provide an explanation for why his DNA would have been present at the crime scene. Dave Franzman, a longtime reporter at ABC Cedar Rapids affiliate KCRG, Michelle Martinko's high school friend, Elizabeth Laymon, told The Des Moines Register. Creighton Waters said the disgraced legal scion, 54, faced a 'gathering storm' of financial ruin that drove him to kill Maggie and Paul at the family's hunting estate in Moselle, South Carolina . They then started to locate all the people that they had originally interviewed in the investigation and collected DNA samples from over 100 different people. [2][23] On December 19, 2018, investigators went to Burns' business in Manchester, Iowa, to interview him. [20], On June 19, 1980, police released a composite sketch of a man believed to have killed Martinko, which they formed from descriptions provided by two witnesses under hypnosis. I am a brokenhearted mother.. [10] Police considered the killing to be "personal in nature" based on the number and location of stab wounds. 20-1150). Jerry Lynn Burns, the suspect in the 1979 murder of Michelle Martinko, makes a court appearance via video in Linn County, Iowa, Dec. 20, 2018. The Delaware County Sheriff's Office says Brian Burns remains an active missing person case but, at this point, has no link to his cousin. In 2012, while serving a life sentence for an unrelated attack, the man died in prison from colon cancer. 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