Thoughts of Great-Uncle Charley always crowd my head the last week of January. What would he have been like? What kind of man would he have been? Would he have been kind to his future great-niece?
His remaining letters shown his final week was fairly humdrum, other than a persistent cold and that darned toothache.
A CNN story in September rekindled my interest in the Tylenol Murders, which I wrote about in The ripple effect. I reached out to the husband of one of the surviving family members and he passed my request to talk on to his wife, Kasia Janus. She wrote back to me in November but I have heard nothing since then so maybe she changed her mind or decided it was too painful.
However, I saw a CBS story today that reminded me so I wrote to Ms. Janus again. This new story brought up touch DNA and how a survivor had been swabbed so her DNA could be compared to DNA found on her bottle 40 years later.
I admit I got shivers. If only there was surviving evidence from Uncle Charley's or David Puskin's murders, or from the other five men that were poisoned but survived, that we could use 98 years later. I know that our families wouldn't get justice after all these years, but could we get closure?
I think so. My father, the oldest surviving Huls at this time, might. I certainly would and I think my brother would, too. Maybe even my cousins.
But as an amateur genealogist, this new field of genetic genealogy fascinates me no end.
Criminals beware! The geeks are coming for you!
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