This episode details the decades-long investigation into the 1996 murder of Sharon Hammack, whose body was discovered bound and discarded in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Although law enforcement initially struggled with a lack of witnesses and limited forensic technology, the case was eventually revitalized through investigative genetic genealogy. By analyzing DNA from a blanket found at the crime scene, experts identified Garry Artman, a truck driver with a violent history of sexual assault, as the primary suspect. Artman was apprehended in 2022 and subsequently convicted of Hammack's murder, bringing a sense of justice to her grieving family after twenty-six years. Before his death in prison, Artman confessed to ten additional killings in the Michigan area and another in Florida. This source illustrates the power of modern forensic science in identifying serial offenders and resolving cold cases that were once considered unsolvable.

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