Jennifer Watkins

In 1999, Jennifer Watkins was found dead underneath a stairwell inside Colorado Spring’s Memorial Hospital. She had been sexually assaulted and beaten to death. The location of her body underneath the staircase was interesting to investigators because only a few people had access to that area of the hospital. For years, the police investigated Jennifer’s murder but couldn’t identify a suspect. It wasn’t until decades later that the police decided to try forensic genetic genealogy to try and identify her killer.

Photo Source: Inside Edition

Episode Sources:

Bloodline Detectives Season 2, Episode 1 Body in the Stairwell

https://www.insideedition.com/1999-cold-case-murder-of-jennifer-watkins-solved-with-identification-of-killer-ricky-severt-63762

https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/ricky-severt-identified-as-jennifer-watkins-killer

https://people.com/crime/jennifer-watkins-colorado-woman-murdered-1999-killer-identified/

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