20-1150). Jerry Lynn Burns, 65, is set to face a jury in February, bringing momentum to a case that was left cold for years. Born in 1953, Jerry Lynn Burns grew up in Manchester, Iowa, and graduated from West Delaware High School in 1972. The murder of Michelle Martinko occurred in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on December 19, 1979. Jerry Lynn Burns' DNA sample was collected from a plastic straw he drank soda with. Yeah, it's really really good! On February 24, 2020, after three hours of deliberation, the jury found Jerry Lynn Burns guilty of first-degree murder of Michelle Martinko. Jerry Lynn Burns was arrested in the 1979 killing of Michelle Martinko. The company created a family tree starting with four sets of the woman's great-great-grandparents and reported that the killer was most likely descended from one of those couples. He grew up in Manchester, Iowa, and graduated from West Delaware High School in 1972. Law enforcement said Burns hasnt been able to explain why his DNA would be at the crime scene, nor does he remember committing the crime. Jerry Burns. On December 19, 2018, 39 years after Michelle Martinkp was murdered, Det. "Murder at . Dave Franzman, a longtime reporter at ABC Cedar Rapids affiliate KCRG, even covered the case at the time of Michelle Martinko's killing. 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. He was preceded in death by his wife of 50 years, Joan C. Plum Merriner, who passed away on January 4, 2019. 'As far as I know, I wasn't there.. DNA: ID. This is what eventually helped authorities identify the culprit - Jerry Lynn Burns. Police said they were able to connect Burns to the case with DNA evidence. Burns' wife, Patricia, died by suicide in . Sonny arrives at his restaurant and gives Dex, who is there, the night off. ", Whoever the killer was, he had come prepared. In fact, his father Harvey, now 85, had been one of the original officers on the case 40 years earlier. 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 looked into the parking lot as she drove by to check for her daughter's car because her daughter worked at the mall and had had car trouble before. 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]. Yet they had a DNA match linking the Manchester man to the Cedar Rapids teenager, slain in 1979 outside the Westdale Mall. [2] That narrowed the suspects down to a set of three brothers, who had grown up in Manchester, Iowa. In October 2018, DNA was covertly collected from an Iowa man, Jerry Lynn Burns, and was found to match the sample discovered on Martinko's clothing. Burns said when presented with the rendering. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Nicholas Curran . Jerry Burns on Trial AP Jerry Burns of Manchester, Iowa, is led into the courtroom during closing arguments for his trial at the Scott County Courthouse in Davenport, Iowa on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. The DNA was uploaded to the law enforcement database called Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS, but investigators never found a match, police said. "I read the article and it talked about genetic genealogy. 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. [9][2], Police had few leads and appealed to the public for tips. 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. Tests eliminated the other two brothers as suspects, but the DNA from Burns' straw matched the blood found on Martinko's clothing. But the software he used allowed him to review history and activity only to January 2018. 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. 6931989, Anamosa State Penitentiary, 406 N. High Street, Anamosa, IA 52205. 2. (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. At the time of the murder, Burns was 25 and lived in Manchester, Iowa. Hi! . Through the use of advanced technologies, DNA samples from the offender were obtained. [2], In 2006, 27 years after Martinko's killing, a new cold case investigator working for the Cedar Rapids Police Department received a tip connected to the case. But it was another technique from Parabon -- genetic genealogy -- that led investigators to Burns, CeCe Moore, Parabon's chief genetic genealogist, told ABC News. Burns pleaded not guilty at his February 2020 trial but the jury deliberated just three hours and returned a guilty verdict. Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. [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. I just began listening to the DNA:ID podcast. What began to turn the case around was the emergence of DNA as a forensic tool for crime fighting in the late 1990s. Jerry knew he was called to be a preacher at the age of 13 and after many years of arguing with God. [10] She wore a black jersey dress and black scarf, black tights and heels, and a waist-length white and brown rabbit fur jacket, and she carried a brown leather purse. . Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. His ex-wife, Patricia, committed suicide in 2008, and his cousin Brian Burns astonishingly disappeared. [15], On the evening of December 19, 1979, Martinko attended a banquet for the Kennedy Concert Choir at the Sheraton Inn in Cedar Rapids. [16] Another rumor emerged that a second stabbing had happened in the following days and that police were keeping it secret, which police denied. The Gazette is Iowas independent, employee-owned source for local, state, and national news coverage. Jerry Lynn Burns will raise two . Thanks to advances in technology and DNA evidence, a jury in an Iowa courthouse . See Photos. This really is an excellent true crimes podcast that is different from the many others that are being produced. And the crucial link is a man named Jerry Burns. "I cried a lot and I looked out windows all hours of the night," Martinko's mother, Janet Martinko, told Cedar Rapids' CBS station in 1987. Find your friends on Facebook. [18][19], Controversy arose five months after the murder, after a woman who was driving by the mall parking lot in the early hours of December 20 came forward with information. Jerry Lynn Burns is pictured in a booking photo released by the Linn County Sheriff's Office on Dec. 20, 2018. Investigators matched DNA found in the car to Jerry Burns and arrested him in 2018. The Delaware County Sheriff said it did review the case after Burns' arrest and "feels that was clearly the case.". A Manchester man convicted of first-degree murder has announced he has hired a new attorney who will seek to exonerate him of the crime, a private investigator has told the Manchester Press . [21] Psychics were also consulted early on in the investigation. "Do I look like that?" Investigators matched DNA found in the car to Jerry Burns and arrested him in 2018. The detective, Denlinger, told me that he believes Jerry Burns has been reliving the murder in his fantasies ever since, but they have never been able to tie him to any other homicides. family - he had 3 kids - tough to sneak away for 4 hours when you have kids unless he was on a business trip. At the department, Burns sked for a lawyer. Jerry Lynn Burns faces a first degree murder charge in the killing of Michelle Martinko. Please logout and login again. See Photos. The trial for Jerry Lynn Burns, who's been charged with first-degree murder in the 1979 killing of Michelle Martinko, will begin at 9 a.m. Oct. 14 at Linn County Courthouse, according to online court records and the Des Moines Register. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette). Jerry Burns enters the courtroom in 2020 (Image via We Are Iowa) Burns was born in Manchester, Iowa in 1953 and graduated from West . The defense brought only one witness, a self-described forensic DNA consultant, who testified on the possibility that police could have mishandled the evidence. However, the case gradually grew cold as the investigation stretched on. Police sent the blood samples to CODIS the nationwide data base of DNA collected from arrested offenders but didn't get a hit. Burns has hired a very high profile attorney and has said he plans to appeal his conviction, which was very largely . Cellmate recounts multiple outbursts in Jerry Burns murder trial, The Christmas Project is back raising money for local non-profits, 3-year-old Cedar Rapids child confirmed dead from accidental drowning, The Carson King saga, a legendary Iowa tale of giving back, Active police investigation in Cedar Rapids, SIX MONTHS LATER: Derecho cleanup, recovery, replanting continues, Hawkeyes roll by North Carolina A&T 112-71. Jerry Burns, of Manchester, is led into a courtroom at the Scott County Courthouse in Davenport for closing arguments in his murder trial in February 2020. He said Burns had no memory of being at the crime scene. Be the first one to comment on this story. Burns coached the Minnesota Vikings from 1986-91. 1, 2023 9:40 am7h ago, Crime and Courts Feb. 28, 2023 5:22 pm23h ago, Crime and Courts Feb. 28, 2023 5:19 pm23h ago, Jeff Linder High School Basketball 21m ago21m ago. On Wednesday, after weeks of "planning and strategizing," investigators interviewed and arrested Burns for first-degree murder, Jerman said. 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. Authorities said Burns was last seen at his 1381 180th St. residence in Delaware County on Thursday, December 19 . Denlinger said no. 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. Through his research, he discovered that a woman named Brandy Jennings had uploaded her DNA to a website service to trace her own family history. [7] Eventually, more than 125 people would have their DNA swabbed and compared against samples taken from the scene. 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. Jeremy Lynn (born June 12, 1963), better known by the ring name Jerry Lynn, is an American retired professional wrestler currently signed with All Elite Wrestling as a producer and coach. Burns made an initial court appearance via video Thursday morning and said he would fill out an application for a court-appointed counsel. [2] A police spokesman said that "everyone's instinct is to say it was a guy", but they were not sure of the sex of the killer. Although the tip did not lead to any suspects, the investigator discovered what he believed to be the killer's blood while he was reviewing the case files. Your login session has expired. 20-1150 APPEAL FROM THE IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR LINN COUNTY HONORABLE FAE E. HOOVER . He previously co-owned a truck shop and worked for John Deere. They then used genealogical data as well as a covertly collected DNA sample from Burns to positively identify him, authorities said. On Dec. 19, 1979, Michelle Martinko, 18, left a school banquet and drove her family's car to the Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to buy a winter coat, Cedar Rapids police said. 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. 28, 2021 7:50 am611d ago, Trish Mehaffey Crime and Courts Mar. While that tip did not yield any new leads, it did cause Det. [2], Martinko's father, Albert, died in 1995. jerry lynn burns defendant-appellant. Sexual Assault of Unnamed Victim (12) . 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. He said he remembered the case from seeing it in the news, but didn't know Martinko and didn't have anything to do with it, Denlinger testified. To learn more about the murder of Michelle Martinko, watch Dateline: Unforgettable on December 22, at 10:00 pm on Oxygen 79. On February 24, 2020, after three hours of deliberation, the jury found Jerry Lynn Burns guilty of first-degree murder. The case was appealed and was eventually decided by the Iowa Supreme Court in favor of the mall owners. The man charged with killing Michelle Martinko 39 years ago is not a suspect in the death of his wife or disappearance of his cousin, according to investigators. Allison also recounted a time when Burns tried to tear down a cellmate's bunk bed because he was snoring too loudly. Authorities arrested 64-year-old Jerry Lynn Burns of Manchester this morning. (Supreme Court No. On December 20, 2018, a district judge set his bond at $5 million. People who have worked on this game have also collaborated on the creation of the following games: Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire, a group of 68 people. She was unsure her information would be of any use because she had read that the murder happened between 10p.m. and midnight, and it was 2a.m. when she drove by. His voice was always turned up to full volume. Accountability doled out to suspects. Murderer Jerry Lynn Burns was not caught for almost 40 years. Definitely fascinating! She was stabbed multiple times in the face, neck, and chest. He began to search for her, as did the police. The black dress Michelle Martinko was wearing when she was murdered was sent to the lab for testing. [28] The defense also requested that evidence pertaining to Burns' cell phone browser history be suppressed. State of Iowa. CBS "48 Hours" on Saturday will spotlight a 40-year-old Iowa murder case that has raised questions about whether the killer could be linked to Jodi Huisentruit's abduction.. Jerry Burns was convicted last February of killing 18-year-old Michelle Martinko. A spot of blood on the dress had a full male DNA profile and was consistent with the male DNA profile found on the gear shift. On December 19, 2018, exactly 39 years after Martinko's murder, the police confronted Burns and arrested him after his DNA matched the one found on Martinko's clothes. [12] Martinko, who was a senior in high school when she was killed, had plans to attend Iowa State University to study interior design. CEDAR RAPIDS - Police investigators couldn't find evidence that Jerry Burns and Michelle Martinko knew each other. Bryan. Burns was arrested on Dec. 19, 2018. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Cases previously considered unsolvable have been getting their answers, & Joseph DeAngelo's arrest (EAR/GSA/ONS) is proving to be just the first of many getting resolved. The 55 year-old Delaware County man was last seen on December 19, 2013 - 34 years to the day of Martinko's murder. Jerry Lynn Burns was finally arrested in October 2018 for the murder of Michelle Martinko, that took place 39 years prior. "In a genetic genealogy database we can reverse engineer the [suspect's family] tree from their distant" relatives who have submitted DNA, Moore said. My gut tells me there's probably something else out there. He grew up in Manchester, Iowa, and graduated from West Delaware High School in 1972. Despite being known as a professional, Burns arrest got people talking about his family. It wasn't until decades after the killing that investigators began to link the emotions of a motive with the science of DNA. Authorities believe Burns stabbed the Kennedy High School senior in the chest and face inside a car parked at Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids. A Felony. The company also produced approximations of how the man would have aged in the years since the crime. LEON SPIES: The state's scenario here is that Jerry Burns, a married man with two young children at home, leaves, drives to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the night, leaving his wife and children behind . A article mentioned that the police found his Internet search history had stuff like 'murder, rape, harm of blonde women'. [25] He refused to voluntarily provide a sample of DNA, but was compelled to do so with a search warrant. Could Jerry Burns have committed murders other than Michelle Martinko's? Place of rest will be in the Dickson County Memorial Gardens. Ha ha. 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 . Works at Target Distribution Center. I couldnt have said it better myself, and Im the podcaster! We would also like to extend our sympathy to the Martinko family.. The murder of Michelle Martinko in the parking lot of Cedar Rapids' Westdale Mall has some eerie connections to the Huisentruit case. Burns' wife, Patricia . This evidence was inadmissible at trial but was the subject of a public suppression hearing. A composite sketch of the suspect was released in June 1980 with the help of two witnesses. State prosecutors also showed a video interview they secretly recorded in 2018, after matching Burns' DNA to the crime scene and getting a search warrant to obtain further DNA. During this time, according to the testimony, he made a reference to 'blacking out but didn't explain it. Jerry Lynn Burns (born December 23, 1953 [13]) was 25 years old when he killed Michelle Martinko in December 1979. Your login session has expired. After Burns arrest, several viewers questioned whether Burns could be a suspect in the death of his wife, Patricia, in 2008. "[2] When asked if he had killed someone that night in 1979, Burns repeatedly told investigators, "Test the DNA". Denlinger interviewed Burns at his business. Martinko then asked another acquaintance to go to the mall with her; that friend said yes at first but later changed her mind. Jerry Lynn Burns, 64, was apprehended and charged with first-degree murder after authorities matched his DNA with blood samples found on the Martinko family car's gear shift knob. His ex-wife, Patricia, committed suicide in 2008, and his cousin . Martinko then went to the mall alone, carrying $180 and intending to finalize the purchase of a new winter coat that was on layaway. The detective on the case, Matt Denlinger, gave me some interesting details. The images looked considerably different from the 1980 composite sketch and showed a man with blond hair and blue eyes. So Denlinger drew up an elaborate genealogy chart going back to Brandy's great-great grandparents to sleuth out a trail that could lead to the killer's DNA. Jerry Lynn Burns, 64, was arrested on Wednesday after police said he was linked by DNA from blood found on Michelle Martinko's clothing and elsewhere in the car at the crime scene. In his video interview with police right before his arrest, Burns, unsolicited, mentioned the name of Jodi Huisentruit as he was being questioned about the Martinko case. Her mother, Janet, died in 1998. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. [1][5] Iowan law mandates a life sentence without the possibility of parole for first degree murder. [11] They described a white man in his late teens or early 20s, around six feet tall and weighing 165175 pounds, with brown eyes and curly brown hair. He asked Burns for a sample of his DNA, but Burns said no - not without an attorney. Like all the cases I cover, Michelles was solved using forensic genealogy, which led police to Jerry Lynn Burns. "That threw us all off," Allison said about the incident. Prosecutor Nick Maybanks/Cedar Rapids Police Department, "Murder at the Mall: The Michelle Martinko Case,". Jerry Lynn Burns will raise two child. They then started to locate all the people that they had originally interviewed in the investigation and collected DNA samples from over 100 different people. The charge against Jerry comes as a complete shock to us and we are doing our best to carry on with our lives, the family said in the statement on Saturday. Burns denied any involvement in the murder. "It's always the boyfriend, the girlfriend, the husband someone really close to the person. [9] She was fully dressed, and the medical examiner determined she had not been sexually assaulted. Parabon made predictions for "ancestry, eye color, hair color, skin color, freckling, and face shape," police said, and the department released the composite images to the public in May 2017. Jerry Burns may be a hitched man, having a . In 2018, the company entered the DNA data from the case into the public genealogy website GEDmatch, where it found a familial DNA match. . Dave Franzman, a longtime reporter at ABC Cedar Rapids affiliate KCRG, Michelle Martinko's high school friend, Elizabeth Laymon, told The Des Moines Register. Jerry Lynn Burns, 64, was arrested Wednesday and . [2] Once there, she perused the stores and spoke with friends and other people she knew who worked there. During the investigation, the police assumed that there were personal motives involved in the murder due to the nature of Martinko's stab wounds. The police considered the murder personal in nature based on the manner of death, according to Little Village magazine. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, Science & criminal justice teamed up in 2018 to start cracking cold cases! At the time of arrest, Burns had his own power-coating company called Advanced Coating Concepts. When asked that question by "48 Hours," Denlinger replied, "I don't know the answer to that. People around him considered him to be a professional but everything fizzled out shortly after. Attorneys for Jerry Burns, convicted of the 1979 murder of Michelle Martinko, are continuing to fight DNA evidence they say the trial court erred in not supressing. [11], In the mid-1980s, Martinko's father filed a lawsuit against the owners of the Westdale Mall and claimed negligence in not providing "reasonable security" on the night of the murder. Her father died in 1995 and her mother died in 1998. Reporter covering state and federal courts. Cedar Rapids police arrested Jerry Lynn Burns, 64, on Wednesday morning and charged him with first-degree murder - 39 years to the day after the killing 18-year-old Michelle Martinko was stabbed . He then contacted a member of a third branch, and a DNA test determined that they were first cousins with the killer. 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. wife was deter mined to be a distant cousi n to many of the Subject's more . Just before his arrest, Burns, unsolicited, mentioned the name of missing Iowa anchor Jodi Huisentruit as he was being questioned about the Martinko case. 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. [10] A police spokesman estimated that in the week after Martinko's murder, more than 200 people responded to the detectives' appeals in the news for information concerning the case. Burns told the investigator about 25 times to test him, Denlinger said. Jerry retired from the Army National Guard and retired as a Master Plumber. [4] Documents concluded that fewer than one in 100 billion people would match the DNA profile. 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. [30] The doctor who performed Martinko's autopsy and investigators in the original case, all now retired, took the stand to testify to how the investigation was conducted, and to Martinko's cause of death. Later that day, her body was discovered in her family's car. He would have been around 25-years-old when he killed Michelle Martinko in December of 1979. Burns was born in Manchester, Iowa in 1953 and graduated from West Delaware High School in 1972. 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. DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWWL) - State prosecutors called a former cellmate of Jerry Burns in his murder trial, which continued Tuesday in Scott County. As reported by CBS News, Burns was not arrested until 2018, when DNA evidence confirmed he was responsible for Martinko's death. After the arrest this week of Jerry Burns in the 1979 killing of 18-year-old Michelle Martinko, an Iowa city is left shocked, saddened, and skeptical. The victim was the younger of two daughters of Albert and Janet Martinko. Supreme Court No. In 2017, Cedar Rapids police said they reached out to Parabon NanoLabs to help build a suspect profile based on the crime scene DNA. 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.. [2], On December 19, 2018, exactly 39 years after Martinko's murder, Burns was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. Jerry was married to his second wife at the time of his arrest. He stated that Burns' DNA could have been at the scene due to secondary transfer (such as skin cells transferring to an article of clothing when someone brushes up against another person), although he clarified that it was not his opinion that this was the case with Burns' DNA. Iowan law mandates a life sentence without the possibility of parole for first-degree murder. Allison, who's being . Jerry Burns. 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. [18], For some time, a prime suspect in Martinko's murder was a man who had, the month before, broken into a Cedar Rapids home, raped a woman at knifepoint, and threatened to kill her children. I hope you enjoy it!! 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