Justice After 40 Years: The Robin Brooks Cold Case

This transcript details the 1980 cold case murder of Robin Brooks, a young woman found dead in her California apartment. Despite leaving behind blood and fingerprint evidence, the killer remained unidentified for decades as traditional investigative methods and standard DNA databases failed to produce a match. The case was finally cracked through revolutionary forensic technologies, including DNA phenotyping to determine physical traits and investigative genetic genealogy to build family trees. These advanced methods led detectives to Phillip Lee Wilson, a neighbor living in the same complex at the time of the crime. In 2022, forty years after the attack, Wilson was convicted...