S26 E03
May 17, 2023On the Case with Paula Zahn
Justice Frozen
Release Date: May 17, 2023On April 20, 1998, a man and woman were traveling on a lightly used highway in the mountainous region of Garfield County, Utah, at 6,000 feet in elevation. They saw something unusual and phoned in a tip to police. Law enforcement detectives discovered the frozen solid body of a young woman wrapped and bound tightly in a sleeping bag. She had been killed by a bullet to the back of her head. Over the years, detectives were unable to find the killer. In 2018, twenty years after the body was found, detectives published a photo of the woman's face. Soon, detectives received a tip about a missing woman in Ohio who resembled the Utah woman. Detectives made a DNA match with the missing woman's sister to identify the deceased as 37-year-old Lina Reyes Geddes. And again through advanced DNA techniques such as M-Vac, detectives were able to determine that her husband had been her killer. However, Edward Geddes had died in 2001 without being brought to justice for the murder of his wife.