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Dana Sheppard Identified and Arrested
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On February 15, 2024, with a Boone County judge's warrant in hand, police find Dana Sheppard on the University of Missouri campus where he works as a custodian. Officers tell him they need to eliminate him as a suspect in an 'assault case.' He reads the warrant while visibly shaking and tells them he has not done anything 'for a long time' — then keeps asking if the warrant is from Missouri. [1] — Ashley Flowers "On February 15, 2024, police served Dana Sheppard a warrant on the University of Missouri campus. He was visibly shaking as he read it and …" 42:10 The remark lands like a confession in retrospect. Four months later, the lab confirms it: Dana Sheppard's DNA matches the crime scene evidence from Carmen Van Huss's apartment in 1993. On August 30, 2024, 31 years after Carmen's death, Dana is arrested in Missouri on charges of murder and rape with deadly force. At the press conference announcing the charges, Carmen's brother Jimmy Van Huss takes the microphone.
Carmen's younger brother Jimmy was a freshman in high school when she was murdered. At the press conference announcing Dana Sheppard's arrest, he thanked Bill Carter and Mira by name, mourned everything Carmen never got to experience, and called for more cases to get the same genealogy treatment.
