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)

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)

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