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TRUE CRIME: Solved

 



Spc. Darlene Krashoc was a 20-year-old active-duty soldier stationed at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs Co when she was murdered on March 16, 1987. She had gone out for the evening with members of her unit to a local club called Shovels and was last seen leaving the club between 12:00 and 1:00 AM.

The next day her body was found behind a Korean restaurant. She had been strangled. Investigators were able to collect DNA that belonged to an unknown male from a wire hanger that was used to strangle her.

In 2016 investigators submitted DNA evidence to the US army criminal investigation lab for additional testing. They were able to narrow down predictive traits for the suspect including eye color hair color skin color in face shape two composite sketches were made showing what a suspect may have looked like at 25 years old and 55 years old.

In 2019, investigators made use of genetic genealogy by submitting the DNA they had to ancestry sites (Ancestry.com) Forensic scientists found people in Wisconsin and Texas who had similar DNA to the samples from the crime scene and eventually they narrow down suspects to 58-year-old Michael White who, in 1987, Michael lived just a few miles from the crime scene and was also a soldier at Fort Carson.

Investigators followed him from his house to his work and watched him drink from fast-food cup investigators. From that cup, recovered from the trash, were then able to gather enough DNA for testing which confirmed that his DNA matched the DNA from the crime scene. He was arrested later that day and in 2021 he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.