Police cheated with an unusual turn and arrested the author of a double murder that occurred in 1976

Genetic genealogy solved a new case of murder United States decades after its commitment. Ray Vannieuwenhoven was arrested for a crime that happened in 1976.

The 82-year-old man has lived in Lakewood, a town in northern Wisconsin, surrounded by forests and small lakes, for about 20 years, about 200 kilometers from where on July 9, 1976. a double murder: David Schuldes, 25, and his girlfriend, Ellen Matheys, 24 years old.

According to the reconstruction of the event carried out by the authorities, that day David was shot in the neck. As, the girl was raped before being slaughtered with two shots in the chest. A sperm sample, found in Ellen's body, has been preserved.

Over the next 43 years, Ray led a normal life, but everything was about to change. In March 2018, a group of investigators reactivated the case and asked for help from Parabon NanoLabs, a company that revolutionized police investigations through the combination of Suspicious DNA with genealogical databases.

The company has managed to detect a suspicious group: they are the parents, brothers and nephews of Ray Vannieuwenhoven. The next step was get some DNA samples of each of them and for this the police invented a fake questionnaire.

The idea was that every suspect should answer the inquiry, keep it in an envelope and, to seal it, lick lapel. They would need the DNA to compare it to the sample of semen found in the body of the murdered girl.

Ray did the steps: he responded to the investigation, put it in the envelope and licked the backhand. He did not imagine that with that he had helped to unravel a macabre episode of his life. L & # 39; American was arrested under two counts of murder in first year and a charge of badual badault In first year.