Police say DNA evidence helped them identify two suspects in the 1975 murder of 17-year-old Laurel Jean Mitchell. WPTA’s Tyler Brummett reports.
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#Indiana #Crime #ColdCase
Laurel Jean Mitchell is an adult now.
But she’s an adult now.
@Chris Reibel she’s deceased. She didn’t make it to adulthood. You’re an adult (I hope). Read a book and figure it out
But she became an adult in heaven.
@Chris Reibel nibba u weird.
@Chris Reibel there is no heaven she’s dead
What about all the people lucifers kids murdered yesterday?
They deserve to spend the rest of their lives in prison.
They deserve the death penalty.
They will and they will suffer. That ain’t nothing compared to what’s coming after…
I saw those who 2 Old men at a Trump rally . MAGA !
MAGAts.
They even look like trump.
@islandspice11:11 they look way worse than Trump
Hey lifetime loser since childhood move on
Care for more?
Thank you !!!! About time …. I hope they get what they deserve !!!
Those 2 look methed up.
Demons, roaming the earth. Glad they are finally caught.
Well they look like they were upstanding citizens..
@Jmfia23 😂😂
@Jmfia23 🎯🎯
Yes. I had a hard time telling from the photos who was the victim, and who the perpetrator(s). (LOL)
@Carl Cushman Hybels omg thank you for the laugh ✌️
@Carl Cushman Hybels Now…NOW. Just because she looked like a WW2 Death Camp guard-does not mean she WAS one. Not every girl can afford a new Shnoz.
Those two creeps have had 47 yrs to live their lives that they took away from the 17 yr old and her family. At least they’ll start paying now and will also pay for all of eternity.
Once word gets out in the yard…they will pay,
@cynthia keller Maybe NOT.
1. They’re Old.
2. Child Molesters often get PC, or even their own prisons these days.
No point in punishing them Twice. And, why give the other prisoners the Free Entertainment??
Right….. so who killed biggie?!?! Tupac?!? 🤔
Thank you for solving this case.
Please help Shelly Wiley Cheyenne WY 1982 killing
Took 47 years for Indiana to crack a case…
There are cases from the 1700s that are unsolved
What’s your point lol? There’s a lot of cases that are never solved
They say there are a lot of holes in the desert, lot’s of problems buried in those holes. In Oklahoma we have abandoned oil wells, lets of problems tossed down ’em like coins.
@TheKeef Well…being Jewish myself, and having seen Both “Borat” flicks; I never visit those Weird Southwest States.
Yes, it’s too bad the investigators didn’t have your genius helping them. The crime would most likely have been solved the next day.
Hope they can do the same for Sandra Gahimer of Shelbyville, IN, who was found brutally “un-alived” on January 12th, 1997
My friend disapeared in 1976, it took more than 30 years to find her killer and thanks to DNA, they found her killer, she was a christian gal, so I know shes in heaven.
@010l0
You been there ?
@Fred Gervin M.P. has anyone been to heaven that wasn’t asking for donations
@Colorbug Originals Not really the “time and place” to suggest only Christians get a decent afterlife either, pretty much asking for replies like that
@010l0 watch howard storm
@Terrie 000 Yeah. I think those religious folks in Goshen have little girls under their desks on Mondays, and little boys on Wednesdays.
47 years…… Good Job Getting These Scums Off The Streets
RIP Angel AMEN DNA should be mandatory with finger prints !!! Philadelphia USA
Thank you NBC Thank you for everyone’s hard work ! Her and her loved ones deserve answers 🙏🏾♥️
Wow. That’s great. Not.
I’ll never understand what compels these turds to take a life! They both look like 50 miles of rough road, and I’m glad they got caught. Poor Girl!
That’s right 👍 I’m glad that this family finally have their monster. RIP Babygirl, My Condolences to the family.
They can use DNA to solve cases but not to free innocent people 😬. Good job though.
Are you living under a rock? You do know they use DNA evidence years later to free innocent people right?
DNA is used to free innocent people too! And Genetic Genealogy also frees those ‘falsely convicted’ by social rumor for so many years.
just looking at their mug shots today makes them guilty. Those smug toothless looks are a give away .
They look like computer-aged Beavis and Butthead. Amazing what Fifty years of Meth can do.
Once again DNA proving criminals will not get away with crime. You will be caught
People need to realize that you will not get away with crimes with genealogy and DNA as a new weapon to solve them.
Yes. The UK is still behind the times though, refusing to use Genetic Genealogy! Worried it’s an invasion of privacy! Well the perps invaded a lot more than that to murder and S.A.! And the families of victims had their privacy and way more invaded too. Plus Genetic Genealogy also exonerates those who’ve been ‘falsely convicted’ by social rumor. The only people who need fear DNA and Genetic Genealogy are the perpetrators!
They pretty much got away with it now they are old and pretty much through with life they had their best days free
@eligha jones They did not HAVE that technology when the duo killed the girl. They perps, OTOH-didn’t have a “Dream Team, either.”
Thank to science!
👏👏👏👏👏
What a lovely bunch
Science Works unlike Faith 😊
Science won’t help you on judgement day.
Why do the scums live long on this earth while the good die young
There is a saying “you end up with the face you deserve”, looking at those two cretins, I rest my case.
Truly every parents’ nightmare. I hope her parents are still alive and saw these horrible men arrested. But if not, I hope she and her parents can get the closure and peace they were robbed of for 45 years.
Unfortunately her parents are deceased. At least her brother and sister now have some answers. This has weighed heavily on my heart as this is my hometown. I was so elated to hear those b@st@rds had been caught. Finally.
There is a Lotta nervous lowlifes out there. Thanks for genealogy
Don’t they look like the Whitaker’s? It’s a white thing. They keep it all in the family… Dude’s face is sucken in.🤦🏽♂
Wonder what else they’ve been up to for all these years.
Bandy was previously convicted of child molestation in 2016 and child solicitation in 2001. Effin creep.
Now on to find who killed Amber Hagerman and inspired the amber alert…
Nothing a tree and rope won’t solve.
The usual suspects.
the justice wheel is really slow… incompetent at this point.
They didn’t give up.
OMG Those two killers look like the people in the movie Wrong Turn how pathetic are they . Thank You ISP for solving this case and bringing Justice to the Family . 😢💔🕊🙏🏼🕯
I was thinking about the movie, The hills have eyes.
What else did they do to her ?
Just by seeing these POS makes me want to throw up, can’t imagine what she felt.
In 1975 this was done at Bridge 55?
I love that these police never give up. Great job!!
And these are reasons why we need them..
Yea yt privilege must feel great
@Nathan playing victim must be even better
Why? What possible reason could they have had?
I like to believe that girl has watched law enforcement stay on her case all these years and is happy they finally got justice.
Why?
1975 is 47 years ago.
DNA should be done at birth
Usual suspects
The reporter is ALLOWED TO LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE….why didn’t that happen with the DELPHI CASE?…. remember that?
Eww their faces
Ok. Good.
What is in the darkness WILL come to LIGHT!
And I bet both then still be alkonh our streets
WELL…I just looked Fred Bandy up on a Detective website. It looks like he had previous child molestation arrests, so he should have been a suspect from Day One. Didn’t find anything on the other guy.
But, also, Old Fred is shown as having NO Education or occupation.
Indiana isn’t letting anyone get away with murder.
Laurel Jean Mitchell, rest in peace sweetest and most innocent angel. May God recompence you for the injustice that you were a victim of in this consciousness.