In the United States, a woman living in Michigan helped, despite herself, to solve an unsolved baby murder case.
“Your DNA matches.” The improbable affair took place in the American state of Michigan. A 23-year-old woman, Jenna Gerwatowski, received a call one day in May 2022 from an unknown number, CNN reports. On the line, a local police detective.
“He asked me, ‘Have you heard about the Garnet baby thing?'” Jenna Gerwatowski told the outlet.
The detective alludes to an unsolved case, that of the murder of a baby in 1997, found in the toilets of a campsite in Garnet Lake, where the American grew up, who claims to know the case. At the time, the police were unable to find any suspect, witness or identity of the newborn or his parents.
Life imprisonment
And cold case which had remained at the bottom of a Michigan police cupboard until 2017 and new analyzes on a femur of the little victim. But the murder might never have been solved if Jenna Gerwatowski hadn’t taken a DNA test six months earlier. She wanted, like one of her friends, to establish her family tree.
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But it was “baby Garnet” that he was ultimately identified with. “Your DNA matches,” the detective told Jena Gerwatowski over the phone. Immediately thinking it was a scam, she in fact discovered that the child’s mother and murderer was none other than her own grandmother, whom she had never known.
Denounced by her DNA and confused by the police, the latter, named Nancy Gerwatowski, is today accused of involuntary manslaughter and concealment of death and risks life in prison.
Lucie Valais Journalist BFMTV
