The murder of Michelle Martinko occurred in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on December 19, 1979. He lived in Manchester at the time of his arrest in 2020 and owned a powder coating business in the city. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette), Jeff Holst, an investigator with the Cedar Rapids Police Department, looks at a report he made which was entered into evidence as he testifies during the continuation of a suppression hearing for evidence in the case of Jerry Burns of Manchester at the Linn County Courthouse in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. During the trial, he initially denied knowing Martinko but his statements were found to contradict when his defense argued that evidence had been mishandled back in 1979 and that different articles of clothing from the crime scene should not have been stored together in one evidence bag. Denlinger said they were uploaded to GEDmatch by Parabon NanoLabs, a private company the department worked with. 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. 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. [9][2], Police had few leads and appealed to the public for tips. Denlinger said they went to Burns' business, Advanced Powder Coating Concepts in Manchester, and he agreed to talk with them. 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. The prosecution emphasized the unlikelihood of the DNA evidence matching someone other than the person who left it at the scene. An obituary for Burns' wife, Patricia, says that she died in June 2008 at the age of 55 . Burns was arrested on Dec. 19, 2018. Burns is accused of murdering Michelle Martinko in 1979. 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. Her killer will go undetected for almost 40yrs! Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Born in 1953, Jerry Lynn Burns grew up in Manchester, Iowa, and graduated from West Delaware High School in 1972. I don't exactly remember what happened, seen something about Jodi Huisentruit recently.". Spies asked if he had consent from Burns to take the lunch straw for testing. He also wished the Burns family well, saying they now have to pick up the pieces of their lives just like the Martinko family did. She was a beautiful singer, and I miss all this. 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. The police used the information to create a partial DNA profile. [9] She was fully dressed, and the medical examiner determined she had not been sexually assaulted. This is what eventually helped authorities identify the culprit - Jerry Lynn Burns. . [2] Once there, she perused the stores and spoke with friends and other people she knew who worked there. Last week, a police investigator explained how using a public genealogy database - called GEDmatch - led to Burns being identified as a match to the DNA evidence found on Martinko's dress and gearshift of her car, where her body was found Dec. 20, 1979. Unfortunately, Martinkos parents did not survive to see her killer brought to justice. Jerry Lynn Burns, 64, was arrested Wednesday and . "Well, I kind of think you do a little bit," Denlinger responded in the video interview. While the information is believed to be accurate, the Iowa Department of Corrections makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information. Want a job? Grab your popcorn & get comfy as we dive into some dusty old cases revitalized thanks to genetic genealogy (& a bit of good ol' fashioned detective work! "He had told me if I keep beating him, in pinochle, he was gonna have to 'take me to the mall,'" Allison said on the witness stand Tuesday. [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. She was stabbed 29 times in the face, neck, and chest. Holst said that in reviewing Burns' computer, he found hundreds of searches and website visits - a pattern that happened several times a week. "I talked to myself and didn't know what to do Then you have to pray.". Jerry's hobbies included working on vehicles, hunting, fishing, racing cars, gardening, and working in the yard. [38] Burns is currently imprisoned in the Anamosa State Penitentiary. 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. At the time of the murder, Burns was 25 and lived in Manchester, Iowa. Jerry Burns . She was seen inside the mall by friends and coworkers because Martinko worked in the mall. They also played a later recording, after Burns' arrest, in which Burns questioned whether he could have blocked out the memory of committing the crime.[30]. . Jerry Lynn Burns granted independent journalist, Steve Ridge, an exclusive Christmas Eve interview, in which Burns also said he will seek a new trial in the Martinko murder. He may be one of the relatively rare "one and done" killers that we have learned about now that we have vastly improved DNA analysis technology. Jerry Burns, busy back in Minneapolis, wasn't on the guest list that time. "Burnsie was laying siege to New Orleans," said Lynn. Hernando . 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. Bryan. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Vikings Ring of Honor Coach Jerry Burns passed away Wednesday at the age of 94. During the investigation, the police assumed that there were personal motives involved in the murder due to the nature of Martinko's stab wounds. Over 40 years ago, teenager Michelle Martinko was stabbed to death outside a mall in Cedar Rapids . Burns' wife, Patricia, died by suicide in . The Vikings organization is mourning the loss of the innovator, colorful . He asked Burns for a sample of his DNA, but Burns said no - not without an attorney. The victim, Martinko, was an 18-year-old high school student from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who was visiting a mall to buy a winter coat. Burns pleaded not guilty at his February 2020 trial but the jury deliberated just three hours and returned a guilty verdict. On February 24, 2020, after three hours of deliberation, the jury found Jerry Lynn Burns guilty of first-degree murder of Michelle Martinko. 28, 2021 7:50 am611d ago, Trish Mehaffey Crime and Courts Mar. The DNA was uploaded to the law enforcement database called Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS, but investigators never found a match, police said. Holst said he didn't, but department officials and First Assistant Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks did consult an expert who specialized in sex offender assessment and treatment to explain what this evidence indicates in this case. CEDAR RAPIDS - Police investigators couldn't find evidence that Jerry Burns and Michelle Martinko knew each other. Thanks to advances in technology and DNA evidence, a jury in an Iowa courthouse . Martinko, an 18-year-old high school student, was found stabbed to death in her family's car in the parking lot of a local mall, where she had gone to buy a new coat. Viewers also wondered if there was a connection to the disappearance of Burns' cousin, Brian Burns. Allison said he and Burns had a good relationship at first but it eventually turned sour. Jerry Burns. Burns kept pointing to the swab, he testified, and saying, 'Test it. Burns stated that DNA evidence had been mishandled in 1979 in one instance, but denied ever being present on the night of the murder in another. On cross examination, Spies asked Holst if he had expertise in psychology or forensic psychology. Investigators matched DNA found in the car to Jerry Burns and arrested him in 2018. Cutting-edge DNA technology was used to solve the cold case. [1][5] Iowan law mandates a life sentence without the possibility of parole for first degree murder. The images looked considerably different from the 1980 composite sketch and showed a man with blond hair and blue eyes. or. More than 40 years after Jerry Lynn Burns stabbed Michelle Martinko to death, a family and a community has closure. Jerry Lynn Burns was finally arrested in October 2018 for the murder of Michelle Martinko, that took place 39 years prior. Visitation will be held from 5 'As far as I know, I wasn't there.. Blond / All American Girls - Jodi was a bit older. [14] Burns's cousin, Brian Burns, went missing on December 19, 2013 and has not been found. "I was speechless," Denlinger says, recalling the moment the lab told him the results. In 2017, a company specializing in DNA phenotyping was hired to produce a new approximation of the killer's appearance based solely off the DNA sample. Derek Chauvin's ex-wife . Sexual Assault of Unnamed Victim (12) . 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. While these occurrences sounded suspicious, the police didn't believe Burns had anything to do with them. See Photos. timing. Tests eliminated the other two brothers as suspects, but the DNA from Burns' straw matched the blood found on Martinko's clothing. This narrowed down the possible suspects to three brothers - Ken, Don, and Jerry Burns. Michelle Martinko, Kennedy High School yearbook photo, 1979. v. Jerry Lynn Burns. Teen Michelle Martinko was stabbed to death in 1979. Investigators also showed Burns two renderings DNA labs had supplied them of possible suspects; he questioned their likeness to him. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. "It's always the boyfriend, the girlfriend, the husband someone really close to the person. On February 24, 2020, after three hours of deliberation, the jury found Jerry Lynn Burns guilty of first-degree murder. December . Rumors began to circulate about the crime. [7] Eventually, more than 125 people would have their DNA swabbed and compared against samples taken from the scene. Hi all - I discuss the case of Michelle Martinko, who was murdered in 1979 in Iowa, this week on DNA: ID podcast. Fifty-five-year-old Brian "Farmer" Burns was reported missing to the Delaware County Sheriff's Office in Manchester, Iowa, on Friday, Dec. 20, 2013, and the sheriff's office is asking for the public's help in locating him. 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. Denlinger had found the needle in the haystack. . Allison, who's being held on drug charges in Linn County, says the two played the card game pinochle often. Jerry Lynn Burns is pictured in a booking photo released by the Linn County Sheriff's Office on Dec. 20, 2018. [12], In 2017, a company specializing in DNA phenotyping was hired to create additional images of the killer based solely on DNA clues about facial appearance and ancestry. 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. Head coach Jerry Burns of the Minnesota Vikings looks on during a 27-14 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh on Sept. 24, 1989. . He had followed them and secretly recovered their DNA. Dave Franzman, a longtime reporter at ABC Cedar Rapids affiliate KCRG, Michelle Martinko's high school friend, Elizabeth Laymon, told The Des Moines Register. Burns' attorney, Leon Spies, also argued in his suppression motion that the computer evidence is irrelevant because it's from 2018 - 38 years after Martinko's death. physical distance - it was a 2 hour drive to and from mason city to cedar rapids. 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Jerry Lynn Burns (defendant-appellant), which is before the Iowa Supreme Court. See if it is.. "In a genetic genealogy database we can reverse engineer the [suspect's family] tree from their distant" relatives who have submitted DNA, Moore said. The murder was closely followed within her community, and the police received more than 200 tips in the weeks following her killing. The black dress Michelle Martinko was wearing when she was murdered was sent to the lab for testing. Michelle Martinko, pictured in a photo released by the Cedar Rapids Police Department, was stabbed to death in December 1979. Burns is accused of murdering Michelle Martinko in 1979. Detectives considered charging the Commissioner with failure to pass along the information to police, but no charges were pursued. 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. Reporter covering state and federal courts. Martinko was 18, a senior in high school in 1979, when she was accosted as she was getting into her car on a chilly night in December following a trip to the mall. Murderer Jerry Lynn Burns was not caught for almost 40 years. You have permission to edit this article. This sounds like a serial killer. In 2012, while serving a life sentence for an unrelated attack, the man died in prison from colon cancer. The medical examiner later determined that she died between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. She had not been robbed or sexually assaulted, and defensive wounds were found on her hands, indicating she fought back. Last . Authorities arrested 64-year-old Jerry Lynn Burns of Manchester this morning. 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 . She had been stabbed 21 times in the face, neck, and chest. In October 2018, an investigator was able to snag a straw used by one of the three brothers, Jerry Lynn Burns, and tested it against the sample, getting a match. The murder of Michelle Martinko in the parking lot of Cedar Rapids' Westdale Mall has some eerie connections to the Huisentruit case. Updated on: August 4, 2021 / 2:29 PM "I did not see this day coming," Franzman said on a broadcast this week. On April 5, 1975, Pat was united in marriage to Jerry Lynn Burns at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Manchester. 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. 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. In 2017, Cedar Rapids police said they reached out to Parabon NanoLabs to help build a suspect profile based on the crime scene DNA. 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. Months before his February . Jerry Burns is still behind bars . On Wednesday, after weeks of "planning and strategizing," investigators interviewed and arrested Burns for first-degree murder, Jerman said. He entered a plea of not guilty. This allows police to create a much larger family tree than databases like CODIs. appeal from the iowa district court for linn county honorable fae hoover grinde, district court judge brief of amici curiae: american civil liberties union american civil liberties union of iowa electronic frontier foundation in support of defendant-appellant *pro hac vice application pending jennifer lynch* A few days later, the Saints fell. [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. I like that it's just the facts and case without anyone trying (poorly) to be a comedian or talk about their own personal nonsense lol. In her ruling, Judge Fae Hoover said the . Investigators had reviewed Burns' 2018 internet searches and found that he regularly visited websites showing blonde women being raped, stabbed, and strangled, and which depicted sexual intercourse with murder victims. Investigators placed the three brothers under surveillance in an attempt to covertly collect their DNA, according to The Gazette. [6] In September 2020, Burns filed a notice of appeal. Authorities believe Burns stabbed the Kennedy High School senior in the chest and face inside a car parked at Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids. Burns also built himself a new home on his parents' land and opened a gas station and convenience store nearby. In 2018, the company entered the DNA data from the case into the public genealogy website GEDmatch, where it found a familial DNA match. Michelle Martinko was an 18yr old student from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA. His voice was always turned up to full volume. 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. When the police executed a search warrant for Burns home and office, they found a computer search history that included blonde females, assault, rape, strangulation, murder, abuse and rape of a deceased individual, and cannibalism.. She claimed to have seen two cars in the lot, one of which was Martinko's, and a man standing next to the open driver's side door of Martinko's car. He previously co-owned a truck shop and worked for John Deere. According to the investigator, "Burns showed almost no emotion during the interview, even when he was eventually told he was being arrested. The sketch looked like a man in his 20s, weighing 165-175 pounds, and standing at around 6 feet. [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. 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. Around 4 a.m., Martinko was found inside her familys Buick Electra. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette). 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. Daryl F. Gates' Police Quest: SWAT, a group of 41 people. "That threw us all off," Allison said about the incident. [21] Psychics were also consulted early on in the investigation. He was also ordered to pay $150,00 in restitution to Martinkos estate, according to KWWL. [2][5] Her hands bore defensive wounds, which police said to indicate that she had fought back against her killer. He began to search for her, as did the police. The case was appealed and was eventually decided by the Iowa Supreme Court in favor of the mall owners. Dr. Obrecht Learns if She's a Bone Marrow Match for Willow Plus, Nikolas' Whereabouts Are Revealed. Now in his late 60s, Burns is currently behind bars and will stay there till he dies. On December 19, 2018, 39 years after Michelle Martinkp was murdered, Det. [11] As the investigation dwindled, a $10,000 reward was offered for information that would lead police to the killer. Gerald Edward "Jake" Merriner, 92, of Jane Lew passed away on Monday, February 27, 2023 in the Stonewall Jackson Hospital. A hearing over whether to allow the evidence at trial continued Thursday for a second day. Jerry Lynn Burns will raise two child. Prosecutors played a covertly recorded interview that investigators conducted with Jerry Lynn Burns in December of 2018. [26] He was not able to provide an explanation for why his DNA would have been present at the crime scene. Roberta Williams' Phantasmagoria, a group of 39 people. Burns originally refuted every charge of involvement in this crime during interrogation by claiming he was unable to provide the authorities with a "plausible explanation" for why his DNA was found at the crime site. DNA Profiling is a modern investigative technology used to compare criminal suspects' profiles to DNA evidence so as to assess the likelihood of their involvement in the crime. Jerry was married to his second wife at the time of his arrest. KWQC Jerry Burns' mugshot and a family photo of Michelle Martinko. It was a cold case until 2018, when familial DNA identified a suspect 39 years after the crime who was charged, tried and convicted of her murder.[2]. 39 years later after the murder, a person named Jerry Lynn Burns was arrested in Manchester, Iowa, and charged with first-degree murder. Burns seemed to have a 'fetish for these violent, sexual themes, Cedar Rapids police Investigator Jeff Holst testified. Police interviewed numerous people, and several were cleared of suspicion through use of a polygraph. Jerry Lynn Burns, 64, was charged with first-degree murder and is scheduled to appear Thursday in Linn County Court. Jerry Lynn Burns will be in prison for the rest of his days. Jerry Burns appeals his conviction for murder in the first degree. However, the case gradually grew cold as the investigation stretched on. He was preceded in death by his wife of 50 years, Joan C. Plum Merriner, who passed away on January 4, 2019. He was arrested Wednesday on the exact day Martinko was last seen alive. In 2006, a cold case investigator discovered unidentified blood, presumably belonging to the killer, while he was reviewing case files. 6931989, Anamosa State Penitentiary, 406 N. High Street, Anamosa, IA 52205. He had worked for John Deere and co-owned a truck stop. Find your friends on Facebook. We need somebody from their family to have tested in order to resolve these cases.". [8][9] She attended Cedar Rapids Kennedy High School, where she was an above average student and well regarded by school officials. 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. At the time of his arrest, Burns ran a powder-coating business called, Advanced Coating Concepts. Burns argues the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress where the warrantless extraction of his DNA profile violated his rights under the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution and article I . After several trials and errors, the suspects were narrowed down to three brothers who had grown up in Manchester, Iowa. Then in 2018, DNA phenotyping company GEDmatch, a public genealogy website that famously helped catch the Golden State Killer, started creating a family tree based on the killers DNA. Thus began the quest to finally nab Martinko's killers. Glad you are liking it! . [10] Police considered the killing to be "personal in nature" based on the number and location of stab wounds. Denlinger recorded him using a camera that was hidden inside a coffee mug. Burns denied any involvement in the murder. 1, 2021 3:52 pm608d ago, Caleb McCullough Health Care and Medicine Jun. 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