Detectives Solve 20-Year-Old Cold Case Only to Learn the Killer Was Working Right Alongside Them

A New Discovery

Over the years, the Sherri Rasmussen case was handled by a few criminalists, but nothing of significance came to light until 2007, almost twenty years after Sherri’s murder, when a criminalist named Jennifer Butterworth discovered something unusual: the gender marker for the suspect who bit Sherri Rasmussen had two XX chromosomes. The assailant was female.

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