Investigators struggled over the years to connect DNA collected at the scene to a suspect. 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. This sounds like a serial killer. A funeral service for Jerry Calvin Lynn, 78, will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, July 16, 2022, at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, 2201 Airline Drive, Bossier City, Louisiana. Lives in Brentwood, Arkansas. On December 19, 2018, he was arrested in Manchester, Iowa, on the 39th anniversary of Michelle's death. Jerry Lynn Burns, 64, was apprehended and charged with first-degree murder after authorities matched his DNA with blood samples found on the Martinko family car's gear shift knob. Jerry Lynn Burns, 65, is set to face a jury in February, bringing momentum to a case that was left cold for years. [2], On October 29, 2018, an investigator observed one of the brothers, Jerry Lynn Burns, drink multiple sodas using a plastic straw. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Nicholas Curran . [2] Once there, she perused the stores and spoke with friends and other people she knew who worked there. Investigators placed the three brothers under surveillance in an attempt to covertly collect their DNA, according to The Gazette. He was sentenced to life on August 7 without the possibility of parole. Jeremy Lynn (born June 12, 1963), better known by the ring name Jerry Lynn, is an American retired professional wrestler currently signed with All Elite Wrestling as a producer and coach. His hands and arms were also examined for scars possibly left by the assumed cut sustained during the attack. They had investigated more than 100 people over the years, and all were dead ends. Burns' wife, Patricia, died by suicide in . The Gazette is Iowas independent, employee-owned source for local, state, and national news coverage. Dave Franzman, a longtime reporter at ABC Cedar Rapids affiliate KCRG, even covered the case at the time of Michelle Martinko's killing. He was born on December 09, 1952 to Harold Eugene and Virginia Burns in Osceola, Arkansas. Comments: (319) 398-8318; trish.mehaffey@thegazette.com, Trish Mehaffey Crime and Courts Sep. 12, 2021 10:48 am535d ago, Gage Miskimen Health Care and Medicine Jul. [15], On the evening of December 19, 1979, Martinko attended a banquet for the Kennedy Concert Choir at the Sheraton Inn in Cedar Rapids. Wednesday, March 1, 2023: Today on General Hospital, Obrecht is furious with both Liz and Scott, Finn offers to stand by Liz, and Sonny and Dex bond over a meal. 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. At 4a.m., police found the Martinko family's tan and green 1972 Buick Electra in the northeast corner of the mall parking lot by a JCPenney. Burns was born in Manchester, Iowa in 1953 and graduated from West Delaware High School in 1972. Jerry Lynn Burns appeared in Linn County this morning on a video monitor from jail where he had his bail set at $5 million. Denlinger said they went to Burns' business, Advanced Powder Coating Concepts in Manchester, and he agreed to talk with them. We would also like to extend our sympathy to the Martinko family.. [10] She wore a black jersey dress and black scarf, black tights and heels, and a waist-length white and brown rabbit fur jacket, and she carried a brown leather purse. jerry lynn burns defendant-appellant. See Photos. This revealed everything, and Burns was ultimately declared guilty of first-degree murder. family - he had 3 kids - tough to sneak away for 4 hours when you have kids unless he was on a business trip. 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. And I went 'bingo'.". Burns seemed to have a 'fetish for these violent, sexual themes, Cedar Rapids police Investigator Jeff Holst testified. I just began listening to the DNA:ID podcast. In December 1979, Martinko, a high school senior who was on the twirling squad at Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, went to the recently opened Westdale Mall after her choir banquet at school to buy a new winter coat. 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. 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. On the way, Burns continued to talk. He lived in Manchester at the time of his arrest in 2020 and owned a powder coating business in the city. In earlier testimony, Matthew Denlinger, a Cedar Rapids police investigator who testified last week, was recalled to testify about Burns' interview with police Dec. 19, 2018. However, in 2006, a tip came into the Cedar Rapids police department. JERRY M. LYNN "Bear" Crown Point, Indiana Jerry M. "Bear" Lynn, age 59, of Crown Point, IN passed away on April 4, 2010. Jerry Lynn Burns was finally arrested in October 2018 for the murder of Michelle Martinko, that took place 39 years prior. [2], Martinko had been stabbed 29 times in her face, neck, and chest. He entered a plea of not guilty. He began to search for her, as did the police. The lab determined that the DNA collected from Burns was a match to DNA from the blood found on Michelle Martinko's clothing and was consistent with the DNA profile developed from blood found elsewhere in the car, 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. When the police executed a search warrant for Burns home and office, they found a computer search history that included blonde females, assault, rape, strangulation, murder, abuse and rape of a deceased individual, and cannibalism.. The police used the information to create a partial DNA profile. Martinko was 18, a senior in high school in 1979, when she was accosted as she was getting into her car on a chilly night in December following a trip to the mall. "I talked to myself and didn't know what to do Then you have to pray.". Jerry Lynn Burns (born December 23, 1953 [13]) was 25 years old when he killed Michelle Martinko in December 1979. [3] The brothers were placed under surveillance, and investigators began to attempt to collect their DNA secretly. A composite sketch of the suspect was released in June 1980 with the help of two witnesses. 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 . Like all the cases I cover, Michelle's was solved using forensic genealogy, which led police to Jerry Lynn Burns. She will be remembered as a wonderful mother and wife, loving to spend time with her granddaughter . You will begin to receive our Daily Courts & Public Safety updates. Cutting-edge DNA technology was used to solve the cold case. But the software he used allowed him to review history and activity only to January 2018. The murder of Michelle Martinko in the parking lot of Cedar Rapids' Westdale Mall has some eerie connections to the Huisentruit case. 'As far as I know, I wasn't there.. [9] She was fully dressed, and the medical examiner determined she had not been sexually assaulted. [34], On February 24, 2020, after three hours of deliberation, the jury found Jerry Lynn Burns guilty of first degree murder of Michelle Martinko. Be the first one to comment on this story. Jerry Lynn Burns is accused of the 1979 cold case murder of Michelle Martinko in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 'If I was there, I don't know, Burns told Denlinger. This technology helped the FBI arrest notorious serial killer, serial rapist, and burglar Joseph James DeAngelo (nicknamed Golden State Killer) in 2018. 19, 2018. His ex-wife, Patricia, committed suicide in 2008, and his cousin . I am a brokenhearted mother.. Exactly 39 years after her death, police took a Manchester man into custody after matching his DNA to blood found at the crime scene. 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 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. 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. The defense brought only one witness, a self-described forensic DNA consultant, who testified on the possibility that police could have mishandled the evidence. [33] Prosecutors called a criminalist to contradict the defense's witness; the criminalist said that the storage of Martinko's clothing was not unusual. Denlinger recorded him using a camera that was hidden inside a coffee mug. On May 29, 2020, Burns' attorneys filed a motion asking for a new trial, claiming his constitutional and . A jailhouse informant also testified in the case Tuesday. Authorities pored over 300 pages of internet search terms and 400 pages of website history, according to court testimony Thursday - almost all of it involving blonde females and most web searches starting with queries about blonde strangulation. 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. She was unsure her information would be of any use because she had read that the murder happened between 10p.m. and midnight, and it was 2a.m. when she drove by. Jerry was married to his second wife at the time of his arrest. The detective on the case, Matt Denlinger, gave me some interesting details. "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. [2], In 2006, 27 years after Martinko's killing, a new cold case investigator working for the Cedar Rapids Police Department received a tip connected to the case. Grab your popcorn & get comfy as we dive into some dusty old cases revitalized thanks to genetic genealogy (& a bit of good ol' fashioned detective work! Bryan. Jerry Lynn Burns will be in prison for the rest of his days. This evidence was inadmissible at trial but was the subject of a public suppression hearing. Her mother, Janet, died in 1998. [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. Linn. [25] He refused to voluntarily provide a sample of DNA, but was compelled to do so with a search warrant. 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. Later that day, her body was discovered in her family's car. Jerry Burns. Attorneys for Jerry Burns, convicted of the 1979 murder of Michelle Martinko, are continuing to fight DNA evidence they say the trial court erred in not supressing. "I read the article and it talked about genetic genealogy. He was preceded in death by his wife of 50 years, Joan C. Plum Merriner, who passed away on January 4, 2019. After several trials and errors, the suspects were narrowed down to three brothers who had grown up in Manchester, Iowa. 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. In 2012, while serving a life sentence for an unrelated attack, the man died in prison from colon cancer. The police then began procuring evidence secretly. 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. Jerry Lynn Burns is pictured in a booking photo released by the Linn County Sheriff's Office on Dec. 20, 2018. DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWWL) - State prosecutors called a former cellmate of Jerry Burns in his murder trial, which continued Tuesday in Scott County. [1][5][6], Michelle Marie Martinko (October 6, 1961 December 19, 1979) was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The trial for Jerry Lynn Burns, who's been charged with first-degree murder in the 1979 killing of Michelle Martinko, will begin at 9 a.m. Oct. 14 at Linn County Courthouse, according to online court records and the Des Moines Register. When Burns disposed of the straw, the investigator collected it and tested it for DNA. [10] A police spokesman estimated that in the week after Martinko's murder, more than 200 people responded to the detectives' appeals in the news for information concerning the case. JERRY LYNN BURNS, Defendant-Appellant. Burns made an initial court appearance via video Thursday morning and said he would fill out an application for a court-appointed counsel. Jerry Lynn Burns was finally arrested in October 2018 for the murder of Michelle Martinko, that took place 39 years prior. Over 40 years ago, teenager Michelle Martinko was stabbed to death outside a mall in Cedar Rapids . Definitely fascinating! The organizations filing the brief contend that the collection of Mr. Burn's DNA without a warrant from a discarded straw he used at a restaurant violated the Fourth Amendment, and article I, section 8 of the Iowa Constitution. Jerry Burns on Trial AP Jerry Burns of Manchester, Iowa, is led into the courtroom during closing arguments for his trial at the Scott County Courthouse in Davenport, Iowa on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. Jerry retired from the Army National Guard and retired as a Master Plumber. 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. Log In. Denlinger interviewed Burns at his business. 39 years later after the murder, a person named Jerry Lynn Burns was arrested in Manchester, Iowa, and charged with first-degree murder. On Dec. 19, 1979, Michelle Martinko, 18, left a school banquet and drove her family's car to the Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to buy a winter coat, Cedar Rapids police said. Although the tip did not lead to any suspects, the investigator discovered what he believed to be the killer's blood while he was reviewing the case files. The black dress Michelle Martinko was wearing when she was murdered was sent to the lab for testing. Denlinger followed each of the brothers around clandestinely, waiting for them to discard an item containing their DNA, and then sent the collected samples to the crime lab. In 2017, a company specializing in DNA phenotyping was hired to produce a new approximation of the killer's appearance based solely off the DNA sample. The woman communicated her information to the daughter of the secretary of the Public Safety Commissioner and believed that it would be passed on to police if it was important. He lived in Manchester at the time of his arrest in 2020 and owned a powder coating business in the city. "Do I look like that?" But he said he and another investigator had no plans to arrest Burns that day. "So it doesn't matter that they haven't had their DNA tested through another arrest or crime scene, we don't need their DNA. Homerline, a soft-spoken woman who enjoyed teaching Sunday School, did everything possible to avoid attention. He was never charged with the Martinko murder, he denied the accusations, and DNA evidence, found later, did not match his DNA. Jerry Lynn Burns, 64, was charged with first-degree murder and is scheduled to appear Thursday in Linn County Court. [2] A police spokesman said that "everyone's instinct is to say it was a guy", but they were not sure of the sex of the killer. Teen Michelle Martinko was stabbed to death in 1979. Hi all - I discuss the case of Michelle Martinko, who was murdered in 1979 in Iowa, this week on DNA: ID podcast. While these occurrences sounded suspicious, the police didn't believe Burns had anything to do with them. Authorities believe Burns stabbed the Kennedy High School senior in the chest and face inside a car parked at Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids. 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. He was born in Hundred, WV on April 24, 1930, a son of the late Robert Lee and Rebecca Taylor Merriner. He has worked for promotions such as World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), NWA Total Nonstop Action (NWA TNA), and Ring of Honor (ROH). Burns coached the Minnesota Vikings from 1986-91. Sexual Assault of Unnamed Victim (12) . Authorities arrested 64-year-old Jerry Lynn Burns of Manchester this morning. FILE - In a Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020 file photo, Jerry Burns enters the courtroom during the continuation of a suppression hearing for evidence in the case of Burns of Manchester at the Linn County . Questions have been raised as to whether Jerry was involved in any other murders or missing person cases. The defense also requested the trial be moved out of Linn County based on the amount of attention the case had received over the past four decades, as well as "pervasive and prejudicial pretrial publicity". Police covertly obtained Burns' DNA from a drinking straw he left it on a table after eating lunch Oct. 29, 2018, at the Pizza Ranch in Manchester, testimony showed. Burns originally refuted every charge of involvement in this crime during interrogation by claiming he was unable to provide the authorities with a "plausible explanation" for why his DNA was found at the crime site. Currently, in his late 60s, he is going to spend the rest of his days behind bars. Police had searched his computer after arresting him, and found a history of searches pertaining to nefarious subjects including the murder of blonde women, and pornographic matter involving blonde women. His ex-wife, Patricia, committed suicide in 2008, and his cousin Brian Burns astonishingly disappeared. "The family never gave up hope that this case would be solved," Jerman said in a statement Wednesday. "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. On August 7, 2020, Burns was sentenced to life in prison without parole. 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. [2] She did not have many close girlfriends or confidantes, which was speculated to be caused by jealousy from other students over her beauty and stylish clothes[11] or conflict over a boy she had dated. Months before his February . Born in 1953, Jerry Lynn Burns grew up in Manchester, Iowa, and graduated from West Delaware High School in 1972. Jerry was born May 22, 1944, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Fred Richard Lynn and Mary Ellen Manning and passed away on July 10, 2022. Glad you are liking it! The Realm, a group of 34 people. The judge ordered a $5 million cash bond, and Burns is set to return to court for a preliminary hearing on Dec. 28. Police interviewed numerous people, and several were cleared of suspicion through use of a polygraph. Burns' defense team objected to the wording of one of the prosecution's questions, which they claimed implied unequivocally that Burns' blood had been at the scene. He was born in 1953 and graduated from West Delaware High School in 1972. He then contacted a member of a third branch, and a DNA test determined that they were first cousins with the killer. The similarities were eerie two pretty, young women, both meeting their final fate in parking lots in Iowa, 16 years apart, in cases that went unsolved for decades. Jerry Burns may be a hitched man, having a . Spies, on cross examination, asked if Denlinger had permission from Burns' two brothers and a distant cousin to access their DNA in developing a suspect pool. Her death was ruled a suicide. Could Jerry Burns have committed murders other than Michelle Martinko's? While being questioned about . The case got nationwide media attention but has remained an unsolved mystery for more than 25 years. . Burns is being held at the Linn County jail on a $5 million cash-only bond. She was stabbed 29 times in the face, neck, and chest. Her case went cold for decades until DNA testing finally brought her family some peace and put her murderer behind bars. Burns said when presented with the rendering. Further the Iowa Department of Corrections assumes no legal liability or . 20-1150). He began working with Parabon NanoLabs, now a leading company helping police solve crimes through genetic tracing. [11] They described a white man in his late teens or early 20s, around six feet tall and weighing 165175 pounds, with brown eyes and curly brown hair. What we know about Jerry Burns and the woman he's accused of killing 40 years earlier Dec 19, 2019/ updated Feb 17, 2020 Four decades ago, 18-year-old Michelle Marie Martinko was found stabbed to death in the family's car in the parking lot of a Cedar Rapids mall. On April 5, 1975, Pat was united in marriage to Jerry Lynn Burns at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Manchester. Around 4 a.m., Martinko was found inside her familys Buick Electra. Burns denied any involvement in the murder. Did you listen to the DNA: ID episode on the Martinko case? I've seen several articles that said he might be tied to other murders. 28, 2021 7:50 am611d ago, Trish Mehaffey Crime and Courts Mar. The victim was the younger of two daughters of Albert and Janet Martinko. In fact, his father Harvey, now 85, had been one of the original officers on the case 40 years earlier. 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. KWQC I've been reading up on this case and was wondering if they profiled this guy? 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. Jerry knew he was called to be a preacher at the age of 13 and after many years of arguing with God. To learn more about the murder of Michelle Martinko, watch Dateline: Unforgettable on December 22, at 10:00 pm on Oxygen 79. Exactly 39 years after Michelle Martinko's body was found, DNA evidence led to the arrest of a Manchester man who was charged with her 1979 murder. He was around 25 when he killed Martinko in 1979. Murderer Jerry Lynn Burns was not caught for almost 40 years. 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