Everybody remembers the Jack killings, when between 1998 and 2000 Sherilee Nicholas, Jackie Malic, Jay Blades, Eric Wills, Noemi Hernandez, Samantha Gordon, and Rebecca Gilharry cruelly were murdered. They were all young teenage schoolgirls who may have become the victims of Belize's first serial killer.
And, all these years later that killer still remains at large. But he or she may not be able to stay hidden forever. And that's because of new technological advances in Forensic Science that may solve what has become Belize's greatest unsolved mystery.
Jules Vasquez discussed those advances last night when he sat down with the Director of the National Forensic Science Service last night on UNCUT.
Gian Cho, Executive Director, National Forensic Science Service
"So, to get to your original question earlier this year at the lab we started to call, in other places they call it a cold case unit. We started to establish a cold case unit and it isn't fully established yet because we are working with CIB and we are working with the prosecutors to get their output so that we can fully spend some on these cold cases from the 90's we actually already did the groundwork and gathered all the items into case folders, went through them now we have to asses for probative value for DNA to see if it makes sense because externally while we were trying to for lack of a better phrase clean up the house and get our things in order, the technology that existed back then 1999 DNA technology, you would know far different than it exists now, so what may have been unable to be detected in 1999 because a couple of those items were sent to a laboratory int he USA and no profiles were found, technology is very different."
Jules Vasquez
"So even if it was a case of a piece of physical evidence because in these cases that I am thinking of there were clothing there were school bags all these things but none of them yielded anything, does that evidence still exist?"
Gian Cho, Executive Director, National Forensic Science Service
"Yes."
Jules Vasquez
"It does still exist. And, can it be scanned for DNA?"
Gian Cho, Executive Director, National Forensic Science Service
"Yes, and it will. We have to make sure we do the proper interviews with retired personnel that worked those cases maybe some of them are still working, go through the case file, go through the information, right but I don't want to say more than that on this show because the public is watching, you may not know who is watching on the other end so that is all I am willing to say on that particular matter."
Cho says the oldest cold cases in Belize's history may date back to 1990 or 1991.
You can find a link to the whole show on the Uncut Youtube Channel.
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