The Drop of Blood - The Nadine Madger Cold Case

This episode details the decades-long investigation into the 1980 murder of Nadine Madger, a young mother found stabbed to death in her Willoughby, Ohio, home. For years, the case remained cold as police struggled with limited evidence, while Nadine's husband, Mark Madger, faced unjust public suspicion. The narrative highlights the persistence of law enforcement and the revolutionary impact of investigative genetic genealogy in identifying the perpetrator forty years later. By building complex family trees from a foreign blood sample found at the crime scene, researchers eventually linked the DNA to Steven Simcak, a local man who had died in 2018. Additional evidence...