In 1972, Indiana woman Phyllis Bailer was found murdered in a ditch alongside the road, with her 3-year-old daughter unharmed. Bailer had been traveling to visit her parents in Bluffton when she went missing. Her cause of death was determined to be a gunshot wound, along with evidence of sexual assault. DNA testing was not available at the time, but in recent years, a DNA profile was developed that led to the identification of Fred Allen Lienemann as the suspect in her murder. Lienemann, who had no known connection to Bailer, was killed in Detroit in 1985 after a violent altercation. Had he been alive, he would have been charged with Bailer’s murder. Police worked with a forensic genealogy company to identify the killer, using the DNA found on Bailer’s clothing. The case remains a tragic unsolved crime, but through advances in forensic technology, law enforcement was able to close in on a suspect decades after the murder took place.
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