Nine years later in 1995, Detective Werner was still at it. He was tracking down and interviewing

people he felt had never been ruled out to his satisfaction, and there were quite a few. One of them

was the jogger who had called in the odor leading to Jenny's being found, named Leslie You.

Detective Werner interviewed one of the men running with Leslie that day, to make sure his story

about discovering the smell held up. Then he requested Leslie to take a polygraph, which he did and

passed. He also gave a blood sample, and his O-negative blood was inconsistent with the type of blood

Michelle's killer had. Soon, 1996 rolled around, and it was the 10th anniversary of that horrible summer when both

girls were slain. Detective Larry Island still had two bankers boxes of case materials in his office,

and remained convinced that both Jenny and Michelle fell victim to the same depraved killer.

He felt he would strike again unless he was in prison or dead.

In 2000, a potential suspect emerged that motivated Tacoma investigators to conduct some new testing in Michelle and Jenny's cases.

This was Ryan L. Ryan had been arrested in Concord, California in 1987, and charged with

assault to commit rape and sexual penetration with a

foreign object for a rape he had committed in Newhall Park. Ryan was 16 at the time. His victim

was only 11. In 2000, police received a tip that Ryan had been staying in the Tacoma area

with his older brother Randall at the time Jenny and Michelle were killed.

By now, STR DNA testing was the norm, and police realized that they needed to retest samples and evidence in Michelle's case, the only one of the two were they had DNA-rich semen.

So in March 2000, swathes from Michelle's thighs and rectal and vaginal cavities were submitted

to the Washington State Patrol Crime Lab for testing and comparison with blood reference standards for Ryan L.

But the Tacoma authorities wanted to take advantage of the testing to rule out some other OG suspects as well.

They had to obtain the blood from some of their suspects from the

original lab that had done the blood type testing, Forensic Science Associates.

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