How Many Victims Were Found At Serial Killer Billy Mansfield Jr's House Of Horrors?

May 2024 ยท 1 minute read

Nearly four decades would pass with the families of the two unidentified Jane Does not getting justice. However, in July 2022, according to the New York Post, authorities announced that advances in DNA technology had led them to identify one of the victims.

Theresa Caroline Fillingim was 16 years old back in 1980 when she went missing. Over the decades, as DNA technology progressed, authorities sent samples of her remains to various labs, all without success. However, in 2020 authorities tried a different tactic: They used Parabon's "Snapshot DNA Phenotyping," which produces a description of the victim instead of attempting to match them with known DNA samples in the general population. Using DNA evidence from this investigation, Snapshot produced trait predictions for the associated victim. "Individual predictions were made for the victim's ancestry, eye color, hair color, skin color, freckling, and face shape. Parabon's research developed a profile that was utilized in the identification of the victim in this case," said the Hernando County Sheriff's Office, in a press release. That led to the positive identification of Fillingim as the third victim to be identified.

"It gives me peace because I know I didn't lose her. That she was taken," said Theresa's sister, Margaret Johns.

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