In April of 1982, Velma Nesset was attacked while she walked to work. When the 64-year-old woman didn't arrive at her job in the Permian Mall in Odessa, Texas, co-workers knew something was terribly wrong. Velma Nesset is a reliable, well-liked employee and co-workers, friends, and family begin searching immediately.  Police are contacted and a missing person report is filed. Hours after she should have arrived at work, the partially nude body of Velma Nesset is found in a drainage culvert. Joseph Scott Morgan will explain what took place in the investigation from the moment her body was found all the way through more than 20 years of investigation.  Dave Mack helps explain how a suspect who confessed to the murder was acquitted in a jury trial a year after the murder, and how a very cold case became very hot - 20 years after the murder. 

Transcribe Highlights
00:29 .66 Introduction - walking for fun
01:45 .05 Velma Nesset, 64, walks to and from work
04:55 .58 You can tell a lot about the suspect by how they treat the dead
09:06 .25 Being stabbed or choked is intimate 14:40 .57 Velma Nesset was stashed in a culvert 18:44 .62 The suspect grabbed Velma Nesset in broad daylight
21:23 .40 Blood would be everywhere, especially on the suspect
25:28 .52 In 1982, DNA was not part of the solution for crimes
29:21 .02 Description of evidence that would be gathered from body 
34:23 .78 Texas has a program to test old sexual assault kits
38:07 .00 Comparing DNA to unsolved cases
43:32 .59 Cold Case Murder solved with genetic genealogy

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