During the trial, he initially denied knowing Martinko but his statements were found to contradict when his defense argued that evidence had been mishandled back in 1979 and that different articles of clothing from the crime scene should not have been stored together in one evidence bag. appeal from the iowa district court for linn county honorable fae hoover grinde, district court judge brief of amici curiae: american civil liberties union american civil liberties union of iowa electronic frontier foundation in support of defendant-appellant *pro hac vice application pending jennifer lynch* Bryan. Hi! v. Jerry Lynn Burns. 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Miller/The Gazette), Jeff Holst, an investigator with the Cedar Rapids Police Department, looks at a report he made which was entered into evidence as he testifies during the continuation of a suppression hearing for evidence in the case of Jerry Burns of Manchester at the Linn County Courthouse in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. 19, 2018. At 4a.m., police found the Martinko family's tan and green 1972 Buick Electra in the northeast corner of the mall parking lot by a JCPenney. [16] Another rumor emerged that a second stabbing had happened in the following days and that police were keeping it secret, which police denied. [2] Once there, she perused the stores and spoke with friends and other people she knew who worked there. "Do I look like that?" CEDAR RAPIDS - Police investigators couldn't find evidence that Jerry Burns and Michelle Martinko knew each other. But her sister Janelle and Janelles husband John Stonebaker were present at Burns sentencing. And I went 'bingo'.". Jerry Lynn Burns was finally arrested in October 2018 for the murder of Michelle Martinko, that took place 39 years prior. Lives in Tyler, Texas. Like all the cases I cover, Michelles was solved using forensic genealogy, which led police to Jerry Lynn Burns. [1][5] Iowan law mandates a life sentence without the possibility of parole for first degree murder. He entered a plea of not guilty. Vikings Ring of Honor Coach Jerry Burns passed away Wednesday at the age of 94. She was stabbed multiple times in the face, neck, and chest. The charge against Jerry comes as a complete shock to us and we are doing our best to carry on with our lives, the family said in the statement on Saturday. However, the case gradually grew cold as the investigation stretched on. Jerry Lynn Burns granted independent journalist, Steve Ridge, an exclusive Christmas Eve interview, in which Burns also said he will seek a new trial in the Martinko murder. [2], Martinko had been stabbed 29 times in her face, neck, and chest. KWQC I am a brokenhearted mother.. A Felony. But by 2 a.m., her father called the police because she had not returned home. [18][19], Controversy arose five months after the murder, after a woman who was driving by the mall parking lot in the early hours of December 20 came forward with information. Denlinger said they went to Burns' business, Advanced Powder Coating Concepts in Manchester, and he agreed to talk with them. "I am happy Michelle finally gets justice.". The detective, Denlinger, told me that he believes Jerry Burns has been reliving the murder in his fantasies ever since, but they have never been able to tie him to any other homicides. Sonny arrives at his restaurant and gives Dex, who is there, the night off. The prosecution did not resist either request, and the trial was rescheduled for February 10, 2020 in Scott County. Burns made an initial court appearance via video Thursday morning and said he would fill out an application for a court-appointed counsel. In 2017, a company specializing in DNA phenotyping was hired to produce a new approximation of the killer's appearance based solely off the DNA sample. Burns' wife, Patricia . Burns is accused of murdering Michelle Martinko in 1979. He was sentenced to life on August 7 without the possibility of parole. In 2006, a cold case investigator discovered unidentified blood, presumably belonging to the killer, while he was reviewing case files. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. [21] Psychics were also consulted early on in the investigation. [12] Martinko, who was a senior in high school when she was killed, had plans to attend Iowa State University to study interior design. 20-1150). While these occurrences sounded suspicious, the police didn't believe Burns had anything to do with them. She had goals for herself, things she wanted to do with her life, and she would write them down and achieve them., I dont know if Ill ever get over this, Mrs. Martinko added. He was around 25 when he killed Martinko in 1979. After reading about the Golden State Killer case in 2018, in which serial killer Joseph James DeAngelo was finally caught through a long trail of DNA, Denlinger had an epiphany: perhaps he could use that same new technique to solve the Martinko case. The company also produced approximations of how the man would have aged in the years since the crime. In fact, his father Harvey, now 85, had been one of the original officers on the case 40 years earlier. Tests eliminated the other two brothers as suspects, but the DNA from Burns' straw matched the blood found on Martinko's clothing. [2] The police received more than 100 tips following the release of the new images. Yet they had a DNA match linking the Manchester man to the Cedar Rapids teenager, slain in 1979 outside the Westdale Mall. Burns has hired a very high profile attorney and has said he plans to appeal his conviction, which was very largely . While being questioned about . But detectives had been stymied. [2][4][27], In pretrial hearings, Burns' attorneys claimed that police needed a search warrant to gather his DNA from the discarded straw, but the judge determined that discarded property cannot reasonably be considered private. I've seen several articles that said he might be tied to other murders. ABC News' Matt Foster and Ahmad Hemingway contributed to this report. When Burns disposed of the straw, the investigator collected it and tested it for DNA. Visitation for Jim will be held on Monday, March 13, 2023 from 4:00PM until 6:00PM at the Peacock Family Chapel. [28], After two days of jury selection, the murder trial began on February 12, 2020. He was convicted of first-degree murder and received the mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole. [6] In September 2020, Burns filed a notice of appeal. Denlinger took over the case in 2015, part of a second generation of cops who had struggled for decades to solve this seemingly unsolvable murder. The defense brought only one witness, a self-described forensic DNA consultant, who testified on the possibility that police could have mishandled the evidence. Hi all - I discuss the case of Michelle Martinko, who was murdered in 1979 in Iowa, this week on DNA: ID podcast. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette). [2][23] On December 19, 2018, investigators went to Burns' business in Manchester, Iowa, to interview him. Burns maintained that he did not know Martinko and was not there when she died, although an investigator later testified that Burns did not specifically deny killing Martinko. Investigators used the blood samples to develop a partial male DNA profile. According to KWWL, at the sentencing, Stonebaker said that Burns stole those 39 years and many more from a sweet smart, talented girl who never got her chance at college, a career, marriage, children and by now, even grandchildren.. But Denlinger did get consent from Janice Burns, Burns' first cousin, and collected her DNA for testing, he said. The hearing will continue in Linn County District Court, though a date has not been set. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. I don't exactly remember what happened, seen something about Jodi Huisentruit recently.". "I did not see this day coming," Franzman said on a broadcast this week. Unfortunately, this led the police nowhere at the time and the case gradually got cold. Jerry Lynn Burns, 64, was charged with first-degree murder and is scheduled to appear Thursday in Linn County Court. It showed that she was a distant relative of the person whose DNA was found at the crime scene a second cousin once removed. The first piece of progress in the case came in 2006 when a sample of the suspect's DNA from Michelle Martinko's car was submitted to a lab for processing, police said. JERRY M. LYNN "Bear" Crown Point, Indiana Jerry M. "Bear" Lynn, age 59, of Crown Point, IN passed away on April 4, 2010. Find your friends on Facebook. "So it doesn't matter that they haven't had their DNA tested through another arrest or crime scene, we don't need their DNA. "I cried a lot and I looked out windows all hours of the night," Martinko's mother, Janet Martinko, told Cedar Rapids' CBS station in 1987. [35] On May 29, 2020, Burns' attorneys filed a motion asking for a new trial, claiming his constitutional and state rights were violated and that the court made a mistake in overruling the request for evidence to be suppressed. Please logout and login again. 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. I've been reading up on this case and was wondering if they profiled this guy? In October 2018, DNA was covertly collected from an Iowa man, Jerry Lynn Burns, and was found to match the sample discovered on Martinko's clothing. But it was another technique from Parabon -- genetic genealogy -- that led investigators to Burns, CeCe Moore, Parabon's chief genetic genealogist, told ABC News. [11] As the investigation dwindled, a $10,000 reward was offered for information that would lead police to the killer. Spies asked if he had consent from Burns to take the lunch straw for testing. People around him considered him to be a professional but everything fizzled out shortly after. On December 20, 2018, a district judge set his bond at $5 million. See if it is.. Last . He was arrested Wednesday on the exact day Martinko was last seen alive. [4] Documents concluded that fewer than one in 100 billion people would match the DNA profile. The Realm, a group of 34 people. 28, 2021 7:50 am611d ago, Trish Mehaffey Crime and Courts Mar. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, Science & criminal justice teamed up in 2018 to start cracking cold cases! Glad you are liking it! Mason City police won't disclose whether or not they are now looking at Jerry Burns as a suspect in that case. He was born on December 09, 1952 to Harold Eugene and Virginia Burns in Osceola, Arkansas. Investigators had reviewed Burns' 2018 internet searches and found that he regularly visited websites showing blonde women being raped, stabbed, and strangled, and which depicted sexual intercourse with murder victims. But then Denlinger's supervisor, who had been listening to the recorded interview from across the street with other officers, sent Denlinger text message telling him to arrest Burns. [2] Police determined from the lack of blood outside the car that Martinko had been killed while in the car, and the medical examiner later estimated she had died between 8 and 10p.m.[17] The murder weapon was "sharp-pointed" but not definitively a knife, and the medical examiner could not determine its size. Jerry Lynn Burns appeared in Linn County this morning on a video monitor from jail where he had his bail set at $5 million. . [16] Based on cash found in Martinko's purse, police concluded that she had not been robbed. They also played a later recording, after Burns' arrest, in which Burns questioned whether he could have blocked out the memory of committing the crime.[30]. Jerry knew he was called to be a preacher at the age of 13 and after many years of arguing with God. Be the first one to comment on this story. May 12, 2021 at 04:20 PM. jerry lynn burns defendant-appellant. Investigators matched DNA found in the car to Jerry Burns and arrested him in 2018. Allison said he and Burns had a good relationship at first but it eventually turned sour. A struggle followed in which Michelle was stabbed and sliced by a knife almost 30 times in a horrific murder that police initially believed had to be a crime of passion. Exactly 39 years after her death, police took a Manchester man into custody after matching his DNA to blood found at the crime scene. It was a cold case until 2018, when familial DNA identified a suspect 39 years after the crime who was charged, tried and convicted of her murder.[2]. After Burns arrest, several viewers questioned whether Burns could be a suspect in the death of his wife, Patricia, in 2008. Jerry Lynn Burns, 65, is set to face a jury in February, bringing momentum to a case that was left cold for years. She claimed to have seen two cars in the lot, one of which was Martinko's, and a man standing next to the open driver's side door of Martinko's car. After her parents reported her missing at 2 a.m., police discovered the teen's body in her vehicle about four hours later. "Well, I kind of think you do a little bit," Denlinger responded in the video interview. See Photos. [38] Burns is currently imprisoned in the Anamosa State Penitentiary. Investigators say Martinko was murdered on December 19th, 1979 and her body found the next day in a family car in the Westdale Mall parking lot. An investigator with the Cedar Rapids police department contacted DNA-tested members of two of the branches of the family tree, and eliminated those branches as containing the killer. 1, 2023 9:40 am7h ago, Crime and Courts Feb. 28, 2023 5:22 pm23h ago, Crime and Courts Feb. 28, 2023 5:19 pm23h ago, Jeff Linder High School Basketball 21m ago21m ago. Jerry Lynn Burns, 64, was arrested on Wednesday after police said he was linked by DNA from blood found on Michelle Martinko's clothing and elsewhere in the car at the crime scene. [26] He was not able to provide an explanation for why his DNA would have been present at the crime scene. [29] The judge determined the search history was not usable in the trial due to the decades of time separating the murder and the searches. Your login session has expired. Jerry Lynn Burns (born December 23, 1953 [13]) was 25 years old when he killed Michelle Martinko in December 1979. Jan. 16, 2020 7:49 pm, Updated: Jan. 17, 2020 2:37 pm. The murder of Michelle Martinko in the parking lot of Cedar Rapids' Westdale Mall has some eerie connections to the Huisentruit case. Now, the solving of another long-cold casea young blonde woman murdered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, two hours away may shed new light on Huisentruit's disappearance and presumed murder. She was seen inside the mall by friends and coworkers because Martinko worked in the mall. When Denlinger reminded Burns that Michelle had been killed in 1979, Burns responded, "It was a big deal. Thus began the quest to finally nab Martinko's killers. Burns was born in Manchester, Iowa in 1953 and graduated from West Delaware High School in 1972. He and his wife, who now reside in Florida, said they . 39 years later after the murder, a person named Jerry Lynn Burns was arrested in Manchester, Iowa, and charged with first-degree murder. In recent years, authorities began taking a closer look at a man named Jerry Burns, who was arrested and convicted in the 1979 abduction and murder of 18-year-old Michelle Martinko. Jerry was married to his second wife at the time of his arrest. Her killer will go undetected for almost 40yrs! In a brief interview with the Cedar Rapids Gazette in 1980, Janet said of her daughter, She loved music. Janelle Stonebraker, Michelle's older sister, thinks that by fighting so vehemently that the suspect wounded himself and left his DNA behind, Michelle contributed to the investigation into her own murder. I like that it's just the facts and case without anyone trying (poorly) to be a comedian or talk about their own personal nonsense lol. On the eve of December 19, 1979, an 18-year-old high school student named Michelle Martinko was discovered dead in her family's car outside a mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Her father died in 1995 and her mother died in 1998. Authorities pored over 300 pages of internet search terms and 400 pages of website history, according to court testimony Thursday - almost all of it involving blonde females and most web searches starting with queries about blonde strangulation. His trial was originally scheduled for October 14, 2019, but in September the defense requested a delay in order to gather more evidence and interview witnesses. "That threw us all off," Allison said about the incident. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Creighton Waters said the disgraced legal scion, 54, faced a 'gathering storm' of financial ruin that drove him to kill Maggie and Paul at the family's hunting estate in Moselle, South Carolina . Life legacy Wallace Jerry Huggins Funeral services will be Tuesday April 11, 2017 at 1 PM from the Chapel of the Taylor Funeral Home with Bro. [39], Last edited on 20 February 2023, at 04:20, "Michelle Martinko's murder 'haunted' the Cedar Rapids community for 40 years. [2], On October 29, 2018, an investigator observed one of the brothers, Jerry Lynn Burns, drink multiple sodas using a plastic straw. This "tragic case" had been "haunting this community for 39 years," Cedar Rapids Police Chief Wayne Jerman said Wednesday. The trial for Jerry Lynn Burns, who's been charged with first-degree murder in the 1979 killing of Michelle Martinko, will begin at 9 a.m. Oct. 14 at Linn County Courthouse, according to online court records and the Des Moines Register. At long last, in 2018, Jerry Lynn was caught and blamed for the teen's manslaughter and, in spite of the fact that it had been a very long time after the wrongdoing, the once cool case is right now a subject of discussion on A&E's executioner cases. Subscribe to the Public Safety newsletter. The 55 year-old Delaware County man was last seen on December 19, 2013 - 34 years to the day of Martinko's murder. Oral Argument Schedule. To learn more about the murder of Michelle Martinko, watch Dateline: Unforgettable on December 22, at 10:00 pm on Oxygen 79. Comments: (319) 398-8318; trish.mehaffey@thegazette.com, Trish Mehaffey Crime and Courts Sep. 12, 2021 10:48 am535d ago, Gage Miskimen Health Care and Medicine Jul. The judge ordered a $5 million cash bond, and Burns is set to return to court for a preliminary hearing on Dec. 28. Burns had previously been married to Patricia Burns, who died in 2008 from suicide. "I read the article and it talked about genetic genealogy. Jerry Lynn Burns, 64, of Manchester, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder on Wednesday, nearly 40 years after the brutal murder of 18-year-old Michelle Martinko in the parking lot of . The case was appealed and was eventually decided by the Iowa Supreme Court in favor of the mall owners. Dave Franzman, a longtime reporter at ABC Cedar Rapids affiliate KCRG, even covered the case at the time of Michelle Martinko's killing. The Gazette is Iowas independent, employee-owned source for local, state, and national news coverage. Denlinger interviewed Burns at his business. Yeah, it's really really good! While the information is believed to be accurate, the Iowa Department of Corrections makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information. At the department, Burns sked for a lawyer. But he never asked for an attorney, Denlinger said. People named Jerry Burns. On May 29, 2020, Burns' attorneys filed a motion asking for a new trial, claiming his constitutional and . With genetic genealogy, an unknown killer's DNA from a crime scene can be identified through his or her family members, who voluntarily submit their DNA to a genealogy database. Jerry Burns. A juvenile found carrying a knife was interviewed and ruled out in her murder, as was a shopping center employee who had told police that he enjoyed following women and ogling store mannequins. Burns said when presented with the rendering. (Supreme Court No. Things that make it difficult. Jerry Burns is still behind bars . During the trials, Burns was found to contradict his own statements. He then contacted a member of a third branch, and a DNA test determined that they were first cousins with the killer. Police said they were able to connect Burns to the case with DNA evidence. Might be nothing, but Jerry has a cousin who went missing in 2013 and it has become a cold case and Jerry's wife committed suicide in 2008. A witness testified he signed this image from a newspaper article about the case. Derek Chauvin's ex-wife . Born in 1953, Jerry Lynn Burns grew up in Manchester, Iowa, and graduated from West Delaware High School in 1972. She had been stabbed 21 times in the face, neck, and chest. Michelle was a high school senior when she was found stabbed to death in 1979 in a parking lot at the Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids. Exactly 39 years after Michelle Martinko's body was found, DNA evidence led to the arrest of a Manchester man who was charged with her 1979 murder. The police considered the murder personal in nature based on the manner of death, according to Little Village magazine. Even though the police were tipped over 200 times in the weeks following the murder, the case eventually grew cold as investigations stretched on. KWQC Jerry Burns' mugshot and a family photo of Michelle Martinko. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. Daryl F. Gates' Police Quest: SWAT, a group of 41 people. Roberta Williams' Phantasmagoria, a group of 39 people. [2][16] At 2a.m., since Martinko had still not returned home, her father reported her missing. [9][2], Police had few leads and appealed to the public for tips. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. "That was big, national news," said Denlinger. I couldnt have said it better myself, and Im the podcaster! According to the investigator, "Burns showed almost no emotion during the interview, even when he was eventually told he was being arrested. Jerry Lynn Burns. However, in 2006, a tip came into the Cedar Rapids police department. UPDATE: Trial set for Iowa man accused in 1979 killing of Michelle Martinko . Denlinger had to consider that Michelle could have been murdered by a stranger. He lived in Manchester at the time of his arrest in 2020 and owned a powder coating business in the city. A composite sketch of the suspect was released in June 1980 with the help of two witnesses. Holst said that in reviewing Burns' computer, he found hundreds of searches and website visits - a pattern that happened several times a week. His ex-wife, Patricia, committed suicide in 2008, and his cousin Brian Burns astonishingly disappeared. Blond / All American Girls - Jodi was a bit older. LEON SPIES: The state's scenario here is that Jerry Burns, a married man with two young children at home, leaves, drives to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the night, leaving his wife and children behind . The defense requested the case be declared a mistrial as a result, but the judge denied the request and asked the prosecutor to rephrase the question. They then started to locate all the people that they had originally interviewed in the investigation and collected DNA samples from over 100 different people. Burns stated that DNA evidence had been mishandled in 1979 in one instance, but denied ever being present on the night of the murder in another. [9] Martinko was found inside collapsed over the passenger seat and stabbed to death. She never had any school problems. Michelle Marie Martinko Find-A-Grave: Michelle Marie Martinko Iowa Cold Cases: Michelle Marie Martinko Michelle Martinko stories 40 years later: What we know about Michelle Martinko and the arrest that re-opened the cold case Jury seated in Jerry Burns murder trial Michelle Martinko murder case evidence photos Iowa Teen Was Fatally Stabbed in Mall Parking Lot The wait ended Monday, when a jury convicted Jerry Lynn Burns of first-degree murder in the 1979 stabbing death of 18-year-old Martinko. 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