Posted on 08/16/2021 1:27:33 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The Monterey County Sheriff's Office solved a 40-year-old murder case involving the 1981 murder of a 30-year-old Central Coast woman.
On Oct. 15, 1981, the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office went to Sonia Carmen Herok Stone's home in the Carmel Point area of Monterey County. She had been murdered.
Stone was a single mother, living alone with her young daughter. She worked for the Levi Strauss Company at the time of her death.
The Sheriff's Office identified a suspect, Michael Scott Glazebrook, who was 25 years old at the time and Stone’s neighbor. The case went to trial in 1983 and resulted in a hung jury. As a result, The District Attorney’s Office decided not to retry the case.
In 2020, detectives at the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office and Deputy District Attorney Matt L’Heureux re-examined the Stone case. They discovered that there were several pieces of evidence in the case file that could be tested using modern DNA technology. The items were sent to the Department of Justice DNA lab for testing. Detectives also got a search warrant for a new sample of Glazebrook’s DNA. They said they were able to obtain a new DNA profile easily because Glazebrook still lives and works in Monterey County.
Earlier this month, the Sheriff's Office was informed that evidence from the Stone crime scene was a match to Glazebrook’s DNA profile.
On Saturday night, detectives conducted surveillance at Glazebrook’s residence in the City of Seaside. At about 8 p.m., he drove away from his home. Glazebrook was stopped and taken into custody without incident. The now 65-year-old suspect was booked into the Monterey County Jail on a warrant for murder and his bail was set at $1 million. In honor of Stone, all Detectives wore Levi's jeans during the operation to arrest Glazebrook.
The Monterey County Sheriff's Office said anyone with information about the Stone case or Michael Glazebrook is asked to call Detective Arras Wilson at 831-755-7203 or Detective Sergeant Bryan Hoskins at 831-755-3773.
You tube are full of these exact stories..Murder cases that are 20,30 ,even 65 years old being solved through DNA...The oldest was 1956 case of murder victims DUANE BOGLE and his girlfriend....
There are some pretty important privacy issues being raised. It used to be they had to get a court order or show probable cause to get a DNA sample. Now someone you may have never met before in your life wants to track their ancestry, puts their DNA on a database and they find markers that point to you. It seems mundane enough now because they are using it to solve murders but what happens when insurance companies start using it to see if you have a gene for some disease that may cost them a ton of moeny 20 years down the road?
Does double Jeopardy apply in this case?
You raise some good points,but the high tech world we live in has the good and the bad,like everything else in life...I see your point about the insurance companies,but these murders destroy the family as well as the victim.....They at least have some closure...Insurance companies may be destroyed by dem party..Who knows what those commies final agenda is.....
There are some pretty important privacy issues being raised. It used to be they had to get a court order or show probable cause to get a DNA sample.
Not in this case. They used crime scene DNA. He was tried before so they must have had quite a bit of other evidence in the case.
No double jeopardy if second trial is the result of a hung jury.
Didn't you get the memo? In the future, the GOVT. will be in charge of all our health care decisions, and will pay for all of our health care needs - which probably means: A flat rate, regardless of "pre-existing conditions" or such, and you can't "opt out."
The bad news is: In the future, the GOVT. will be in charge of all our health care decisions. So, if you are "hesitant" to get that "jab," you may soon find that your insurance has been suspended - for the "good of the Body" (Landru commands it!).
Regards,
DNA. It's not just for solving old murders.
Nope, a hung jury means that the DA can retry the case, but they chose not to 40 years ago.
There are no time limitations on a murder case.
thank you.
If you are worried about your privacy, don’t leave your DNA on a murder scene.
And back in the 80’s when I worked in Britain, my tax bite was 50%. I was making peanuts as an American who wasn’t a registered technologist in the UK and my paycheck was short by 50%, every week. I would get a postcard letting me know how much the Gov’t took, with no other info. They just took what they wanted. I have no idea how much the regular citizen’s taxation is now, but 50% really hurt when I was used to the USA standard of living.
It is great to see justice for these victims. Genetic genealogy is making these crimes much harder to get away with.
1 down, 10,503 to go.
My dad was a criminal atty (actually all around atty). He died in 1998, but lived to see the beginning of DNA testing.
We weren’t bad kids, any of us; he told us to never give up DNA or more than thumb print ever!
I guess I would be worried more about the ins companies now. We’ll be on medicare in the next 2 years. I already take fewer meds than 2 remaining brothers.
Iceland kills fetuses with Downs. Only 1-2 babies slip past the extermination a year.
I tried to cash a $20 check on our kiddo’s account at Wells Fargo. They made me come inside from the drive thru and demanded my finger prints before they’d cash it. They had the form and ink pad out and ready. No, I don’t think so...
No, kiddo wasn’t under suspicion and had plenty in the bank. I’d had enough run ins with Wells Fargo through business transactions to know they are some kind of @$^(_&_(*@# bank. Yes, kiddo knew, too, but was in full parental rebellion.
LOL!
Doesn’t look like it was used in this case, but yes indeed.
In that context, here’s a genealogy page for Sonia:
https://www.myheritage.com/names/sonia_herok
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