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Aug 19, 2025 16 min

Murder of Lee Rotatari Gonsulus

from Render the Darkness: A True Crime & Paranormal Podcast Hosted by Casey and Fallon

In today’s case we are going back to the 80’s to talk about a case that proves that theadvances being made in DNA technology is an amazing way to be able to solve some of the cases that weren’t able to be solved before. The case of who took the life of Lee RotatoriGonsulus was finally solved after 4 decades thanks to it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Lee_Rotatori_and_Thomas_Freeman https://www.thegazette.com/crime-courts/dna-identifies-who-killed-lee-rotatori-in-council-bluffs-in-1982/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lee-rotatori-murder-1982-iowa-dna-suspect-thomas-freeman/ https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/thomas-o-freeman-identified-as-lee-rotatoris-killer https://veritycreates.medium.com/hotel-room-killer-unmasked-as-a-murder-victim-himself-50a894deffc0 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35680604/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35680604/ https://law.justia.com/cases/illinois/supreme-court/1962/36203-5.html https://thecinemaholic.com/did-jerry-nemke-kill-thomas-freeman-how-did-jerry-nemke-die/

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