Napkin, genealogy site leads to arrest in 1993 murder case
Businessman Jerry Westrom, 52, has been charged with fatally stabbing a Minneapolis woman in 1993 after investigators ran DNA evidence from the murder scene through a genealogy website and obtained his DNA from a discarded napkin. Westrom is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 35-year-old Jeanne Ann “Jeanie” Childs. Westrom was released from jail after posting bail Friday, Feb. 15, 2019. (Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office)