EPISODE · Mar 18, 2019 · 46 MIN
Ep 41 - Brynn Rainey and Carol Andersen, and Caroline Byrne
from Dead Bodies Podcast · host Dead Bodies Podcast
An emerging DNA technique has been used to solve the murders of two young women in El Dorado County, California, more than 40 years ago. Joseph Holt was identified as the killer of Brynn Rainey in 1977 and Carol Andersen 1979 using genealogy databases. Caroline Byrne was a model found at the bottom of a cliff at The Gap in Sydney in 1995. Her boyfriend Gordon Wood was convicted of her murder but later acquitted. Sharnelle and Dee Dee talk to Wendy who worked as a funeral and mortuary assistant.
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An emerging DNA technique has been used to solve the murders of two young women in El Dorado County, California, more than 40 years ago. Joseph Holt was identified as the killer of Brynn Rainey in 1977 and Carol Andersen 1979 using genealogy databases. Caroline Byrne was a model found at the bottom of a cliff at The Gap in Sydney in 1995. Her boyfriend Gordon Wood was convicted of her murder but later acquitted. Sharnelle and Dee Dee talk to Wendy who worked as a funeral and mortuary assistant.
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Ep 41 - Brynn Rainey and Carol Andersen, and Caroline Byrne
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