Donna Sue Hyatt

DNA: ID

AbJack Entertainment

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Episode 118 Donna Sue Hyatt

Donna Sue Hyatt was a loving daughter, sister, mother and grandmother who faced some challenges in life. She relied on her friends, family and faith to help her put a smile on her face every day, and she was always friendly, chatty and sunny – until someone murdered her on her living room floor. There were plenty of suspects both in Donna Sue’s life and in the larger Carlsbad, NM area she called home. But police could not pin the crime on any one of them, although they had their suspicions. Eventually the case went cold. DNA testing in 2010 revived the case, but could not solve it. It would take the advent of forensic genealogy to link a repeat offender to Donna’s brutal slaying – someone who had gotten away with it before.

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0:00.0	You're listening to DNAID.
0:03.0	Brought to you by Abject Entertainment.
0:05.3	Be sure to check out some of the other great true crime podcasts from this network,
0:09.7	including The Murder in My Family, Missing Persons, Scene of the Crime, Zodiac Speaking,
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0:27.4	Subscribe where you're listening to this podcast so you don't miss an episode. The
0:40.3	The The
0:57.0	The It was 1987.
1:25.0	Angela Halsey came home to the house she shared with her mom, Donna. It was Wednesday night, July 8th at 1145 p.m.
1:32.7	Donna, Angela, and Angela's toddler son, Brandon, lived at 708 North Elm Street in Carlsbad, New Mexico.
1:39.4	Angela and her boyfriend, Brad, drove over to the house and parked in the driveway.
1:43.7	Brad stayed in the truck, and
1:44.9	Angela and Brandon walked around back to the back door. This was the door she and her mom always used
1:49.8	because the screen door on the front entrance was broken. Brad typically waited in the driveway
1:55.0	until Angela signaled him that the back door was unlocked and she'd gotten inside okay. But on this
2:00.1	night, Angela didn't signal.
2:02.4	As she got to the rear door, she noticed that it was slightly open. She tentatively walked in.
2:08.0	Donna lay on the living room floor. In shock and fear, Angela put Brandon in the kitchen where he
2:13.4	couldn't see his grandmother and ran to the front door, which she found was deadbolted shut. This was odd. Donna did not use that lock. There was no need for it as the door
2:22.2	locked automatically when closed. She opened the door and the broken screen door and ran outside
2:27.4	screaming for Brad. Brad, who saw his girlfriend fall on the ground in seeming pain, jumped out of the
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