1979 Portland Murder Solved by DNA | The Killer Died 20 Years Before They Found Him

Twenty-year-old Anna Marie Hlavka was found dead in her Portland apartment in 1979, with no visible fingerprints or evidence of a perpetrator present. The case remained silent for forty years until lab analysts built a genetic profile of the perpetrator through civilian databases of relatives. When detectives opened the card of the identified Jerry Walter McFadden, it became clear that there was no need to look for him anymore... The state had executed him by lethal injection back in 1999 for another brutal crime in Texas. The video demonstrates the unusual paradox of justice, when the answer comes two decades after the executioner himself died.