(Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette). He would have been around 25-years-old when he killed Michelle Martinko in December of 1979. In 2018, the company entered the DNA data from the case into the public genealogy website GEDmatch, where it found a familial DNA match. Although Burns's arrest in the Martinko case raised questions about the two incidents, police do not believe Burns was involved in either one. 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. Denlinger said no. Police looked at numerous suspects during the initial investigation, including a man who raped a woman at knifepoint and later died while in prison for that crime, but DNA testing ruled him out. On the way, Burns continued to talk. He also wished the Burns family well, saying they now have to pick up the pieces of their lives just like the Martinko family did. Jerry Burns. The black dress Michelle Martinko was wearing when she was murdered was sent to the lab for testing. Jerry Lynn Burns, 65, is set to face a jury in February, bringing momentum to a case that was left cold for years. [28] The defense also requested that evidence pertaining to Burns' cell phone browser history be suppressed. Police found impressions from rubber gloves inside and outside the car, indicating that the assailant had likely planned his attack and hoped to escape unidentified. He had followed them and secretly recovered their DNA. Jerry Burns mentioned Jodi by name while speaking to an investigator shortly before his arrest. [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. On May 29, 2020, Burns' attorneys filed a motion asking for a new trial, claiming his constitutional and . Jerry Lynn Burns, the suspect in the 1979 murder of Michelle Martinko, makes a court appearance via video in Linn County, Iowa, Dec. 20, 2018. "Burnsie was laying siege to New Orleans," said Lynn. And I went 'bingo'.". [39], Last edited on 20 February 2023, at 04:20, "Michelle Martinko's murder 'haunted' the Cedar Rapids community for 40 years. Her killer will go undetected for almost 40yrs! JERRY M. LYNN "Bear" Crown Point, Indiana Jerry M. "Bear" Lynn, age 59, of Crown Point, IN passed away on April 4, 2010. Burns was read his Miranda rights and taken to the police department. Despite being known as a professional, Burns arrest got people talking about his family. [28], After two days of jury selection, the murder trial began on February 12, 2020. They had investigated more than 100 people over the years, and all were dead ends. Ahead of the Dateline NBC episode about her death, heres what you need to know about the crime, the perpetrator, and what sentence he received at trial. 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. State prosecutors also showed a video interview they secretly recorded in 2018, after matching Burns' DNA to the crime scene and getting a search warrant to obtain further DNA. 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* This allows police to create a much larger family tree than databases like CODIs. Jerry Burns is still behind bars . The case was appealed and was eventually decided by the Iowa Supreme Court in favor of the mall owners. 19, 2018. 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. "I am happy Michelle finally gets justice.". Murderer Jerry Lynn Burns was not caught for almost 40 years. Jerry Lynn Burns (born December 23, 1953 [13]) was 25 years old when he killed Michelle Martinko in December 1979. . Her death was ruled a suicide. [11][18] In the year after the killing, the number of people interviewed by police reached the hundreds, and up to 30 people were interviewed under hypnosis. . Let's uncover where he is now in this article. [20], On June 19, 1980, police released a composite sketch of a man believed to have killed Martinko, which they formed from descriptions provided by two witnesses under hypnosis. Allison, who's being . In a brief interview with the Cedar Rapids Gazette in 1980, Janet said of her daughter, She loved music. JERRY LYNN BURNS, Defendant-Appellant. Jerry was married to his second wife at the time of his arrest. The Gazette is Iowas independent, employee-owned source for local, state, and national news coverage. To learn more about the murder of Michelle Martinko, watch Dateline: Unforgettable on December 22, at 10:00 pm on Oxygen 79. In October 2018, an investigator was able to snag a straw used by one of the three brothers, Jerry Lynn Burns, and tested it against the sample, getting a match. Just before his arrest, Burns, unsolicited, mentioned the name of missing Iowa anchor Jodi Huisentruit as he was being questioned about the Martinko case. Jerry Burns' mugshot and a family photo of Michelle Martinko. Her father died in 1995 and her mother died in 1998. He said he remembered the case from seeing it in the news, but didn't know Martinko and didn't have anything to do with it, Denlinger testified. Yet they had a DNA match linking the Manchester man to the Cedar Rapids teenager, slain in 1979 outside the Westdale Mall. [8][9] She attended Cedar Rapids Kennedy High School, where she was an above average student and well regarded by school officials. [9] After the event, she asked her friend and twirling squad teammate if she wanted to join her on a shopping trip to the Westdale Mall, which had recently opened, and where Martinko worked. But he never asked for an attorney, Denlinger said. The images looked considerably different from the 1980 composite sketch and showed a man with blond hair and blue eyes. Updated Sep 20, 2022 at 3:27pm. In 2012, while serving a life sentence for an unrelated attack, the man died in prison from colon cancer. Jim was born on April 20, 1933 in Walsenburg, Colorado to Geraldine Hudson McAlpine and Victor Paul Hudson and passed away on February 24, 2023 at his home in Amarillo, Texas with his family by his side at the age of 89. Jerry Lynn Burns was finally arrested in October 2018 for the murder of Michelle Martinko, that took place 39 years prior. Hi! Lives in Brentwood, Arkansas. "He had told me if I keep beating him, in pinochle, he was gonna have to 'take me to the mall,'" Allison said on the witness stand Tuesday. [38] Burns is currently imprisoned in the Anamosa State Penitentiary. Last week, a police investigator explained how using a public genealogy database - called GEDmatch - led to Burns being identified as a match to the DNA evidence found on Martinko's dress and gearshift of her car, where her body was found Dec. 20, 1979. [22][12] From that, police were able to build a partial DNA profile. The new technique, started this year with the "Golden State Killer," has identified over two dozen suspects. [18], For some time, a prime suspect in Martinko's murder was a man who had, the month before, broken into a Cedar Rapids home, raped a woman at knifepoint, and threatened to kill her children. The Realm, a group of 34 people. [31] The defense argued that DNA evidence had been mishandled,[31] and that different articles of clothing from the scene should not have been stored together in one evidence bag. Jerry Lynn Burns, 64, was arrested Wednesday and . The police considered the murder personal in nature based on the manner of death, according to Little Village magazine. Tests eliminated the other two brothers as suspects, but the DNA from Burns' straw matched the blood found on Martinko's clothing. This "tragic case" had been "haunting this community for 39 years," Cedar Rapids Police Chief Wayne Jerman said Wednesday. Parabon. (Rebecca F. 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. Jerry Lynn Burns was arrested in the 1979 killing of Michelle Martinko. He entered a plea of not guilty. [15], On the evening of December 19, 1979, Martinko attended a banquet for the Kennedy Concert Choir at the Sheraton Inn in Cedar Rapids. Burns, charged with first-degree murder in the cold case stabbing of Martinko, is asking the court to toss out DNA and other evidence because they were obtained without a warrant and represented violations of privacy and other rights. Convicted murderer Jerry Burns, 66, is scheduled to be sentenced Friday in the 1979 murder of Michelle Martinko, 18. "Do I look like that?" Mail, proper postage prepaid, addressed to Jerry L. Burns, No. Identities returned to Does. On December 19, 2018, exactly 39 years after Martinko's murder, the police confronted Burns and arrested him after his DNA matched the one found on Martinko's clothes. [2], On December 19, 2018, exactly 39 years after Martinko's murder, Burns was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. "We are reviewing the case and at this time have not uncovered any additional information that would implicate Jerry Burns in that disappearance," Sheriff John LeClere told TV9. Find your friends on Facebook. Sonny arrives at his restaurant and gives Dex, who is there, the night off. Now in his late 60s, Burns is currently behind bars and will stay there till he dies. Please logout and login again. 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 Westdale Mall on December 19, 1979. [26] He was not able to provide an explanation for why his DNA would have been present at the crime scene. But detectives had been stymied. The case was solved, but there were lingering questions about Jerry Burns. 'A complete shock': Family of suspect in Martinko murder releases statement, Bobcats and beyond are wearing orange to support Benton Communitys Tatum Schroeder, UIHC library offers resources for and about people with disabilities. On Wednesday, after weeks of "planning and strategizing," investigators interviewed and arrested Burns for first-degree murder, Jerman said. 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. Burns has hired a very high profile attorney and has said he plans to appeal his conviction, which was very largely based on the DNA evidence. Offender records are public information pursuant to Section 904.601 (1)Iowa Code (1999). 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. 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. 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. 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. "I read the article and it talked about genetic genealogy. 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.. (Supreme Court No. Jerry Lynn Burns appeared in Linn County this morning on a video monitor from jail where he had his bail set at $5 million. During the investigation, the police assumed that there were personal motives involved in the murder due to the nature of Martinko's stab wounds. Jerry Burns. In her ruling, Judge Fae Hoover said the . A DNA profile was developed from that evidence and entered into the national Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), but no matches were found. Denlinger said they went to Burns' business, Advanced Powder Coating Concepts in Manchester, and he agreed to talk with them. Investigators placed the three brothers under surveillance in an attempt to covertly collect their DNA, according to The Gazette. Jerry Burns stands with his lawyer Leon Spies (right) during a recess in the continuation of a suppression hearing for evidence in the case of Burns of Manchester at the Linn County Courthouse in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. When Burns, of Manchester, Iowa, was questioned, he "denied committing the offense but could offer no plausible explanation why his DNA would be found at the crime scene," police said. ), Press J to jump to the feed. The murder was closely followed within her community, and the police received more than 200 tips in the weeks following her killing. This is what eventually helped authorities identify the culprit - Jerry Lynn Burns. He was arrested Wednesday on the exact day Martinko was last seen alive. Visitation for Jim will be held on Monday, March 13, 2023 from 4:00PM until 6:00PM at the Peacock Family Chapel. Almost 40 years later, with the help of DNA Technology, the culprit was nabbed and justice was finally served to Martinko and her grieving family. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. During the trials, Burns was found to contradict his own statements. In his video interview with police right before his arrest, Burns, unsolicited, mentioned the name of Jodi Huisentruit as he was being questioned about the Martinko case. On December 20, 2018, a district judge set his bond at $5 million. The prosecution did not resist either request, and the trial was rescheduled for February 10, 2020 in Scott County. Roberta Williams' Phantasmagoria, a group of 39 people. He stated that Burns' DNA could have been at the scene due to secondary transfer (such as skin cells transferring to an article of clothing when someone brushes up against another person), although he clarified that it was not his opinion that this was the case with Burns' DNA. 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. Court documents said blood on clothing worn by Martinko and a blood stain on the gear shift of the car, where the teens body was discovered, were analyzed and found to belong to someone else. His first wife, Patricia, died by suicide in 2008. Burns' attorney, Leon Spies, also argued in his suppression motion that the computer evidence is irrelevant because it's from 2018 - 38 years after Martinko's death. Allison said he and Burns had a good relationship at first but it eventually turned sour. Burns repeatedly said he didn't know how his DNA was found at the crime scene. I don't exactly remember what happened, seen something about Jodi Huisentruit recently.". On April 5, 1975, Pat was united in marriage to Jerry Lynn Burns at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Manchester. Burns is accused of murdering Michelle Martinko in 1979. He then contacted a member of a third branch, and a DNA test determined that they were first cousins with the killer. Updated on: August 4, 2021 / 2:29 PM In 2006, a new cold case investigator working for the Cedar Rapids Police Department was tipped with an update. Police said they were able to connect Burns to the case with DNA evidence. "Well, I kind of think you do a little bit," Denlinger responded in the video interview. The Cedar Rapids teenager was found stabbed to death in her parents car parked at Westdale Mall. Burns is accused of murdering Michelle Martinko in 1979. In a press conference during which the new image was shared, a former classmate of Martinko exclaimed that the face looked like another one of their classmates, but that classmate had been investigated and was cleared based on a DNA swab several years before. County, FL. [9] She was last seen almost 9p.m. outside of a jewelry store in the mall. After the arrest this week of Jerry Burns in the 1979 killing of 18-year-old Michelle Martinko, an Iowa city is left shocked, saddened, and skeptical. Born in 1953, Jerry Lynn Burns grew up in Manchester, Iowa, and graduated from West Delaware High School in 1972. Police sent the blood samples to CODIS the nationwide data base of DNA collected from arrested offenders but didn't get a hit. Sign Up. Log In. On August 7, 2020, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. 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 . 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. Holst said he didn't, but department officials and First Assistant Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks did consult an expert who specialized in sex offender assessment and treatment to explain what this evidence indicates in this case. On cross examination, Spies asked Holst if he had expertise in psychology or forensic psychology. "[2] When asked if he had killed someone that night in 1979, Burns repeatedly told investigators, "Test the DNA". Michelle Martinko was an 18yr old student from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA. Then in 2018, DNA phenotyping company GEDmatch, a public genealogy website that famously helped catch the Golden State Killer, started creating a family tree based on the killers DNA. Dave Franzman, a longtime reporter at ABC Cedar Rapids affiliate KCRG, Michelle Martinko's high school friend, Elizabeth Laymon, told The Des Moines Register. He was sentenced to life on August 7 without the possibility of parole. Vikings PR. He and his wife, who now reside in Florida, said they . or. Teen Michelle Martinko was stabbed to death in 1979. He was also ordered to pay $150,00 in restitution to Martinkos estate, according to KWWL. 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. Your login session has expired. Visitation will be held from 5 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. Pat was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, and enjoyed quilting, collecting teddy bears, gardening and farming with her husband. In 2018, familial DNA identified a suspect named Jerry Lynn Burns, and the case was finally laid to rest with the accused getting sentenced to life in prison without parole. Denlinger began contacting genealogy companies for help in trying to find a family tree that could lead to the person whose DNA matched that found at the crime scene. 6931989, Anamosa State Penitentiary, 406 N. High Street, Anamosa, IA 52205. Ha ha. Subsequently he interviewed Jerry Burns, who denied knowing or ever meeting Michelle Martinko. In 2018, Jerry Lynn Burns was finally arrested and charged with the teen's murder and, although it had been decades after the crime, the once cold case is now a subject of discussion on A&E's Killer Cases. [24], In 2018, the DNA phenotyping company took the data they had collected the year before and entered it into GEDmatch, a public genealogy website that has been used by law enforcement to solve other cold cases, most famously that of the Golden State Killer. 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. The murder of Michelle Martinko occurred in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on December 19, 1979. Denlinger then told him he had a search warrant for his DNA. Authorities said Burns was last seen at his 1381 180th St. residence in Delaware County on Thursday, December 19 . . Allison said he and Burns had a good relationship at first but it eventually turned sour. On February 24, 2020, after three hours of deliberation, the jury found Jerry Lynn Burns guilty of first-degree murder. 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. [10] Police considered the killing to be "personal in nature" based on the number and location of stab wounds. 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. He lived in Manchester at the time of his arrest in 2020 and owned a powder coating business in the city. The prosecution emphasized the unlikelihood of the DNA evidence matching someone other than the person who left it at the scene. Allison, who's being held on drug charges in Linn County, says the two played the card game pinochle often. "Murder at the Mall: The Michelle Martinko Case," reported by "48 Hours" contributor Jamie Yuccas, airs on Saturday, August 7 at 9/8c on CBS. 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. [2] That narrowed the suspects down to a set of three brothers, who had grown up in Manchester, Iowa. Add newsletters@thegazette.comto your contacts. Denlinger had to consider that Michelle could have been murdered by a stranger. This narrowed down the possible suspects to three brothers - Ken, Don, and Jerry Burns. He was around 25 when he killed Martinko in 1979. The police then began procuring evidence secretly. After several trials and errors, the suspects were narrowed down to three brothers who had grown up in Manchester, Iowa. KWQC Jerry Burns' mugshot and a family photo of Michelle Martinko. [16] Based on cash found in Martinko's purse, police concluded that she had not been robbed. [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. [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. Her mother, Janet, died in 1998. You have permission to edit this article. His ex-wife, Patricia, committed suicide in 2008, and his cousin Brian Burns astonishingly disappeared. [10][11] She was also a talented performer, joined the twirling squad as a sophomore, and performed in choirs and theater productions. His voice was always turned up to full volume. At the time of her death, police had found Martinko stabbed to death in her car in a local mall parking lot. State of Iowa. Martinko then went to the mall alone, carrying $180 and intending to finalize the purchase of a new winter coat that was on layaway. Jerry Burns may be a hitched man, having a . 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]. The police used the information to create a partial DNA profile. 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. He had worked for John Deere and co-owned a truck stop. Investigators matched DNA found in the car to Jerry Burns and arrested him in 2018. While that tip did not yield any new leads, it did cause Det. At the department, Burns sked for a lawyer. 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 . Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. [2], Martinko's father, Albert, died in 1995. It showed that she was a distant relative of the person whose DNA was found at the crime scene a second cousin once removed. Burns' wife, Patricia, died by suicide in . CEDAR RAPIDS - Police investigators couldn't find evidence that Jerry Burns and Michelle Martinko knew each other. "The family never gave up hope that this case would be solved," Jerman said in a statement Wednesday. Doug Larison to reexamine the file and find what he believed to be the killers DNA in blood found on Martinkos dress that was not her blood. Thank you!! Burns denied any involvement in the murder. The hearing will continue in Linn County District Court, though a date has not been set. [23] Out of more than 80 potential suspects that had been identified over the years, more than 60 people were tested and cleared of suspicion. Months before his February . Your login session has expired. The victim was the younger of two daughters of Albert and Janet Martinko. Cutting-edge DNA technology was used to solve the cold case. He was never charged with the Martinko murder, he denied the accusations, and DNA evidence, found later, did not match his DNA. Spies asked if he had consent from Burns to take the lunch straw for testing. He began working with Parabon NanoLabs, now a leading company helping police solve crimes through genetic tracing. The medical examiner later determined that she died between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. She had not been robbed or sexually assaulted, and defensive wounds were found on her hands, indicating she fought back. 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