UPDATE - The Fort Myers 8 - New Identification

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In Episode 129, Trace Evidence features the case of the Fort Myers 8. In March of 2007, the skeletal remains of 8 unidentified men were found in a wooded lot in southwest, Florida. Investigators managed to identify three of the victims, but the remaining names were unknown.

A few years earlier, in nearby Charlotte County, investigators discovered the remains of several men. Some of the bodies were found hundreds of feet apart, others were nearly a mile away. Ultimately police arrested and charged Daniel Conahan Jr with one of the murders -- there was not enough evidence to link him to all.

***UPDATE***

In June of 2021, investigators working the "Hog Trail Murders," announced they had positively identified John Doe Number 1 as being Gerald "Jerry" Lombard who had vanished from Lowell, MA in 1991.

In September of 2022, investigators from Fort Myers announced that through the use of genetic genealogy, they had successfully identified the fourth victim in the Fort Myers 8 case. He has been identified as thirty year old Robert Ronald "Bobbie" Soden.

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0:39.0	In March of 2007, an ecologist employed by a developer was sent down to Fort Myers, Florida to examine a parcel of land.
0:48.0	Shortly after arriving, the man discovered a human skull sticking out from the earth.
0:53.5	Police arrived and began searching the area, ultimately discovering the full skeletal remains of eight unidentified men.
1:01.0	It didn't take long for detectives to determine that the wooded lot was being used as a dumping ground for a serial killer.
1:09.0	In the years since that horrifying find, three of the eight victims have been positively identified through familial DNA and other methods.
1:18.0	As the accuracy and speed with which genealogical research can be conducted has increased, cold case detectives started utilizing this new investigative approach and just this month.
1:29.0	They were able to announce that they have positively identified a fourth set of remains as being those of Robert Ronald Sodden, missing since the mid-90s.
1:39.0	In addition to this identification, investigators working on a connected case known as the Hog Trail Murders announced last year that they had also positively identified a previously unknown victim found 28 years ago in Charlotte County.
1:54.5	This victim was identified as Gerald Blombard, who had gone missing from Lowell, Massachusetts in the early 1990s.
2:02.5	Both the victims of the Hog Trail Murders, as well as those known as the Fort Myers-8, are officially believed to have been killed by Daniel Cahnahan Jr., a notorious and brutal killer who lived in Florida throughout the 90s and is currently sitting on Death Row after having been found guilty of one murder.
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