The Murder of Nancy Bennallack

The episode details the horrific 1970 murder of Nancy Bennallack, a young court reporter who was brutally killed in her Sacramento home. Despite a violent crime scene and a distinctive blood trail left by the perpetrator, the investigation stalled for decades, leaving her family and wrongly suspected fiancé without answers. The case eventually went cold until 2004, when investigators successfully extracted a male DNA profile from preserved evidence. However, it was not until the recent emergence of investigative genetic genealogy that authorities could finally identify the culprit. Forensic experts and genealogists traced the DNA to Richard John Davis, a neighbor who lived i...