When Captain Carter and analyst Mira Patel visited the apartment complex, it took them just 30 seconds to walk from the Sheppard brothers' unit to Carmen's — connected by a common area including a laundry room.
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IMPD analyst Mira Patel takes the 23andMe match and begins tracing the family tree through open-source databases, eventually concluding that Carmen's attacker is likely related to two brothers with the surname Sheppard. Carter checks the resident list he obtained years earlier — both brothers are on it. He and Mira visit Turtle Creek Apartments and find it takes just 30 seconds to walk from the Sheppard unit to Carmen's, through a common area that includes the laundry room. [1] — Ashley Flowers "When analyst Mira Patel traced DNA relatives to two brothers named Sheppard, Captain Carter checked his apartment complex resident list — a…" 41:15 The picture snaps into focus: Carmen, doing her laundry late at night before work, likely encountered Dana Sheppard in that hallway. Friends and family confirm the only link between Carmen and the Sheppards was their shared building. The investigation finally has a direction — and soon, a name. Carter presents his findings to the IMPD Cold Case Unit in February 2024 and recommends serving a DNA warrant on Dana Sheppard first, simply because he was living closer, in Missouri.
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 told officers he hadn't 'done anything for a long time.' Four months later, his DNA matched the crime scene. He was arrested August 30, 2024.
Dana Sheppard, a former neighbor of Carmen's in the same apartment complex, was arrested on August 30, 2024, 31 years after Carmen's murder.
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