Catching the Furniture City Killer

This episode details the decades-long investigation into the 1996 murder of Sharon Hammack, whose body was discovered bound and discarded in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Although law enforcement initially struggled with a lack of witnesses and limited forensic technology, the case was eventually revitalized through investigative genetic genealogy. By analyzing DNA from a blanket found at the crime scene, experts identified Garry Artman, a truck driver with a violent history of sexual assault, as the primary suspect. Artman was apprehended in 2022 and subsequently convicted of Hammack's murder, bringing a sense of justice to her grieving family after twenty-six years. Before his death...