DNA and Footprints Lead to Conviction 32 Years After Minneapolis Woman's Brutal Murder

Jeanie Childs, a 35-year-old woman, was brutally stabbed over 60 times in her apartment; her mother endured 26 years of grief and uncertainty before the case was solved.

Thirty years after Jeanie Childs was found stabbed more than sixty times in her Minneapolis apartment, the slow arc of forensic science bent toward an answer — though not without shadow. A discarded napkin at a college hockey game, traced through genealogy databases, led investigators to Jerry Westrom, a family man and businessman with no violent past, who was convicted in 2022 of a crime committed in 1993. The case reminds us that justice, when it finally arrives, does not always arrive cleanly — and that the grief of the living waits patiently for truths that science can illuminate but not a

DNA and Footprints Lead to Conviction 32 Years After Minneapolis Woman's Brutal Murder

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