RETURN 2 VENDOR: Walter E. Ellis
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Police department announce an arrest in the serial killings of nine women over 21 years. Investigators matched Walter E. Ellis, 49, with DNA found on each of the bodies of the nine women killed from 1986 to 2007.
Science and stubborn determination pays off.
“This case was solved with shoe leather and science,” Police Chief Edward A. Flynn told the news conference. “Continuing advances in DNA technology have enabled us to link these homicide cases, and it was good work pursuing numerous leads that led to the arrest of the suspect.”
According to CNN, the “Milwaukee Police Department’s Homicide Task Force Cold Case Unit poured through evidence that included more than 700 names contained in the nine homicide files, 15,000 sexual assault investigations spanning 23 years and 6,000 prostitution-related cases. They searched the state DNA databank of 125,000 people and a national databank of 6 million people.”
Should Ellis be found guilty after trial…
