On March 28, 1998, Tony and son Steven Scherer found the bodies of Sherri and Megan Scherer in their Missouri home. Just a few hours later, in Dyersburg, Tenn., a man driving a van pulled a gun on a mother and her children, demanding to be taken inside their home. When the mother refused, the assailant shot her in the arm, and she sustained non-critical injuries.
Authorities soon suspected that this man was responsible for killing Megan and Sherri Scherer, given the similar nature of the attacks.
After a ballistics test, the weapon used to shoot the Dyersburg mother was proven to be a match for the weapon used in the murders of Megan and Sherri Scherer.
During the Scherer investigation, experts were able to develop a partial profile for the killer. But, several key DNA markers were missing to provide a substantive lead for authorities.
In 2006, the murders were reopened because of further advances in DNA technology. Though the killer’s identity still remained a mystery, his DNA had been entered into CODIS, a national database. It soon got a hit with the DNA found after the murder of South Carolina resident Genevieve Zitricki in 1990.
More than a decade later, in 2017, the killer’s DNA also linked to the then-unsolved 1997 rape of a 14-year-old Memphis resident.
The case finally was solved after investigators hired Parabon NanoLabs, where CeCe Moore is the head of geneaology.
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