A Law Created After Kristina Wessleman's Death Finally Caught Her Killer… 30 Years Later

#coldcase #truecrime #coldcaseevidence Cold Case Evidence investigates the mysteries that time forgot. We produce in-depth true crime documentaries covering cold cases, unsolved murders, missing persons, mysterious disappearances, forensic breakthroughs, and criminal investigations from around the world. ABOUT THIS VIDEO On the afternoon of July 21st, 1985, fifteen-year-old Kristina Wesselman walked out of her front door in Glen Ellyn, Illinois with one errand to run a candy bar and a soda from the grocery store 180 yards away. She made it there. She was seen leaving. She never made it home. What was found in a field behind that store the following morning would go without an answer for thirty years. A DNA profile preserved in 1985 sat in a lab with nothing to match against it. An innocent man was stripped in a holding cell and spent $50,000 defending a suspicion he never earned. The real killer pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in another county — and walked free again because the law didn't yet require him to submit a DNA sample. Then a prosecutor who had stared at that unmatched profile for years helped pass a law that changed who had to submit genetic specimens in Illinois. Thirteen years later, Michael R. Jones pleaded guilty to a felony. Sixty-one days after that, a database notification arrived at the DuPage County Cold Case Unit. The trap had been set by the case he thought he had escaped. Cold Case Evidence covers the full story — from the 1985 murder to the 2002 law built around it, to the 2015 DNA match and the 2018 sentencing. CHAPTERS: 00:00 — Opening: Be Careful, Princess 00:48 — Who Christy Was 01:26 — The Neighborhood, The Path, The Afternoon 03:00 — Support Cold Case Evidence 03:10 — What Was Found 04:05 — The Investigation 04:33 — The Wrong Man 05:28 — The Profile With Nothing to Match 06:20 — The Law Built From Her Death 07:30 — The Felony That Closed the Gap 08:37 — The Man Who Was Never a Stranger to the System 09:28 — The Confrontation 10:11 — The Courtroom 11:09 — Dana Henry in the Gallery 11:31 — What This Case Means 12:11 — Closing Through evidence-based storytelling, detailed timelines, witness accounts, investigative records, and forensic analysis, we examine the facts behind some of history's most puzzling unsolved cases. Every clue matters. Every detail tells a story. Every case deserves answers. Subscribe to Cold Case Evidence for compelling true crime documentaries, cold case investigations, and unsolved mystery stories that continue to captivate investigators and audiences worldwide. #coldcase #truecrime #coldcaseevidence #kristywesselman #michaeljones #DNAmatch #codis #illinoiscoldcase #30yearcoldcase #justiceserved #systemfailure #parolefailure #forensicDNA #solvedcoldcase #wrongman #glenbardSouth #dupagecounty #childsafety #criminalinvestigation #truecrimecase