In December 1992, 25-year-old teacher Christy Mirack is attacked in her East Lampeter, PA apartment just minutes before she’s supposed to leave for work. Investigators find signs of a violent struggle and a full DNA profile from her killer, but there's no match. For more than twenty-five years, the case sits in limbo as state and national databases expand with no hits.
In this episode, host Dan Szematowicz follows the investigation from the original crime scene, through decades of unanswered questions, to the breakthrough that finally identified her killer: a discarded water bottle, a strand of chewed gum, and a new forensic tool that didn’t exist in 1992.
And even after a guilty plea and a life sentence, one question still has no answer...why?

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SOURCES:

Lancaster County District Attorney Press Releases

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Order (2025)

Pennsylvania State Police DNA Match (via DA statements)

LancasterOnline / LNP Coverage

Associated Press

ABC27 / WGAL / CBS21 Reports

WHYY / NPR Pennsylvania

Court Records: Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas

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