How Did Ted Bundy's DNA Profile Get Uploaded to CODIS? Det Lindsey Wade Pt 1

What do you do when you are investigating a 1961 cold case and you learn one of the most prolific serial killers in American history (Ted Bundy) may be a suspect? You get to work!

Cold case detective (retired) Lindsey Wade was reviewing cold case files in Tacoma, Washington, and realized Ted Bundy could have killed the victim from their oldest case. It was a long shot, but one that needed to be explored. Evidence was going to be sent to the lab for DNA testing. But she didn't have a reference sample from Bundy.

But surely Ted Bundy would be in the CODIS (national) DNA database right? He is the poster child for why we need one! The serial killer who operated in numerous states across the country, likely committing many crimes that have never been solved but DNA might be collected someday. But not even the state of Florida, where he was executed, had his profile.

That had to be fixed. So Detective Wade, along with numerous others, went to work and eventually found some of his blood that had been stored in a safe for 40 years and managed to get a DNA profile from it.

Was he the killer? Watch the episode and find out!

All Things Crime is a new, comprehensive video series that will explore every aspect of crime and the ensuing investigation, one video interview at a time. The host, Jared Bradley, is the President of M-Vac Systems, which is a wet-vacuum-based forensic DNA collection system and has experience traveling the world training all levels of law enforcement and crime lab DNA analysts in using the M-Vac to help solve the crime. Along the way he has met people from all walks of life and experience in investigating crimes, so is putting that knowledge to use in another way by sharing it in these videos.

If you are interested in more videos about the M-Vac, DNA, and investigations, also check out the M-Vac's channel @https://www.youtube.com/c/MVacSystems...

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