AT 765-747-4867 >> THANKS FOR JOINING US LATE TONIGHT AT 10 ON JENNIE DREXLER A BREAK IN A 30 YEAR-OLD COLD CASE A JANITOR FROM MISSOURI IS FACING NEW CHARGES FOR A MURDER AND RAPE THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE CIRCLE CITY BACK IN 1993 FOX FIFTY-NINE'S CODE O'HARA WENT BACK TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME TODAY AND WALKS US THROUGH HOW DETECTIVES FINALLY FOUND THE MAN THEY BELIEVE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MURDER OF CARMEN VAN HUSS >> OVER 30 YEARS AGO A 19 YEAR-OLD WOMAN WAS BRUTALLY MURDERED IN HER APARTMENT HERE ON THE NORTH SIDE POLICE KNEW HER KILLER LEFT DNA EVIDENCE BEHIND BUT THEY COULDN'T MATCH TO ANYBODY UNTIL NOW IN THE SPRING OF 1993 ART STUDENT NAMED CARMEN VAN HUSS WAS FOUND BY HER FATHER AFTER SHE'D BEEN STABBED 61 TIMES AND RAPED A SITE THAT CHANGED HIM FOREVER ACCORDING TO HER BROTHER PARTIALLY >> CLOTHED ON THE FLOOR SIGNS OF A STRUGGLE THAT'S BASICALLY ALL WE KNOW AT THIS COURT DOCUMENTS DESCRIBE THE BLOOD SEEN DOOR UNLOCKED A TABLE KNOCKED OVER IN CLOTHES THROWN AROUND THE FLOOR DESCRIBE WHAT THE ENTIRE DEPARTMENT >> IT'S IN DISARRAY NEIGHBORS REPORTED HEARING AN ARGUMENT DNA SAMPLES WERE COLLECTED AND COMPARED TO SAMPLES FROM SEVERAL MEN SHE KNEW BUT RULED THEM ALL OUT SO THE CASE WENT COLD FOR A FEW YEARS UNTIL IT WAS REOPENED IN 2000 DETECTIVES CONTINUED INVESTIGATING EVENTUALLY SHIPPING THE DNA OFF TO ANOTHER LAB FOR FURTHER TESTING AND THE RESULTS FINALLY POINTED IMPD IN THE DIRECTION OF A SUSPECT WHO LIVED IN THE SAME COMPLEX AS VANHUSS BACK IN 1993 NOW 52 YEAR-OLD DANA SHEPARD WAS WORKING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI HUNDREDS OF MILES AWAY FROM THE SCENE OF THE CRIME WHEN HE WAS APPROACHED BY IMPD COLD CASE DETECTIVES IN SPRING OF THIS YEAR DOCUMENTS SAY SHEPARD WAS VISIBLY SHAKING AS HE READ THE WARRANT FOR A DNA SAMPLE HE TURNED OUT TO BE A MATCH AND WAS ARRESTED CARMEN'S BROTHER JIMMY SPOKE OFF-CAMERA CREDITING THE CLOSURE OF THE CASE TO AN IMPD CAPTAIN NAMED BILL CARTER HE SAYS CARTER SPENT A LOT OF HIS FREE TIME ON SOLVING THE MURDER >> ADDING THAT HE HOPES THIS WILL BRING MORE ATTENTION TO OTHER COLD CASES AND SIMILAR DNA TESTING JIMMY VAN HUSS SAID QUOTE WE WOULD LOVE A BILL A LAW A PROCEDURE SOMETHING IN CARMEN'S MEMORY TO GET THE ATTENTION OTHER CASES DESERVE WE ARE SO THANKFUL THAT BILL CARTER WAS TOLD MY SISTER'S NAME IN ADDITION FACING CHARGES FOR MURDER AND RAPE DANA SHEPARD