A young woman named Michelle Wyatt was brutally raped and killed in her Santee apartment in 1980. The case remains unsolved, with no signs of forced entry or burglary.
3:53 PM PDT April 12, 2024 SANTEE , Calif. — On October 8, 1980, Michelle Wyatt and her boyfriend played pool inside of the garage at her Santee apartment building on Kerrigan Court. It was the last time that anyone other than the man who brutally raped and killed her would see her alive.
In 2019, the then-Santana High student Patterson was a Sheriff's Detective Patterson working on the cold case team. He happened to be assigned Wyatt's case. He knew people who were interviewed about Wyatt's murder. Solving the Murder of Michelle Wyatt A SNP, commonly called"snips", are single nucleotide polymorphism. It's a small, unique portion within a person's DNA that can be found in their lineage. Think of SNPs as if a portion of a fingerprint's pattern could identify one's ancestry.
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