The cold case of a female Navy recruit's vicious murder in 1984 has finally been cracked three decades later thanks to a match found on a genealogy database.
Minnesota woman Pamela Cahanes was just 25 when she was beaten and strangled to death, two days after graduating from Orlando Naval Training Center in August of 1984. Her white uniform was found strewn inches away from her body.
Her killer went free for 34 years after investigators failed to find a match for her assailant's DNA found on her body despite exhaustive testing.
Finally, on Wednesday Thomas Lewis Garner, 59, a dental hygienist from Jacksonville, Florida, was arrested for her murder after investigators tracked him down using genealogy service Parabon Nanolabs.
Garner and Cahanes had been stationed at the Orlando Naval training center at the same time. However, authorities are not sure on how the two encountered each other.
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The cold case murder of Navy recruit Pamela Cahanes, 25, (left) who was found beaten and strangled to death in August 1984 has finally been solved after her alleged killer Thomas Lewis Garner, 59, (right) was identified using genealogy service Parabon Nanolabs
Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma pictured above announcing the breakthrough arrest on Thursday after Cahanes' killer went free for 34 years. Garner with jailed without bond on murder charges on Wednesday
Investigators waited for DNA technology to advance and finally worked with Parabon NanoLabs to create Garner's family tree and later narrow him down as a suspect.
Authorities then trailed after Garner until he dropped a 'personal item' and they tested it for DNA and found it matched the evidence found on Cahanes' body.
The odds of the DNA belonging to anyone other than Garner was 700billion to one.
'We were certain that he was the person responsible for the murder. Actually, it was scientific confirmation,' Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma said on Thursday, announcing the breakthrough arrest.
Garner was arrested Wednesday at his Jacksonville home and was taken to Seminole County Jail where he's being held without bond on a first-degree murder charge, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
However, he has not admitted to killing Cahanes on August 5, 1984.
She was found face-down in her underwear a yard of a vacant home covered in blood near the academy. She did not appear to be sexually assaulted.
Cahanes was found strangled and beaten to death two days after she had graduated from the Orlando Naval Training Center in Florida (Cahanes second left with peers at her graduation) . She and Garner were both at the training center at the same time though it's not clear how they ran into each other
Garner was traced after investigators used genealogy service Parabon Nanolabs to create a family tree using DNA found on Cahanes' body and named him a suspect. They tested a personal item he dropped and found it to be a DNA match
He has a clean record other than a battery charge during his time serving in the navy.
Investigators had found DNA on Cahanes' body and tested it for years to no avail. Thanks to advances in technology, they were able to create a family based off the DNA and narrow down Garner as a suspect
'It’s extremely bizarre to think that somebody could commit a crime like this, then go on and lead a normal life,' Sheriff Lemma said.
Prior to the DNA family tree testing he was not considered a suspect.
'If you think about his perspective, quite literally he was probably under the belief that he was getting away with murder,' Lemma said.
Retired SCSO Investigator Bob Jaynes admantly worked on Cahanes' case for over 20 years, keeping a picture of her on his desk.
He had hoped to find her killer before Cahanes' mother Alice Cahanes passed away. She unfortunately passed in 2016.
'It is extremely sad to know that our victim’s mom had passed away, and never had the opportunity to see this. I’m convinced she’s looking down from heaven right now, knowing this is a day of relief as this person is held accountable and responsible for what he’s done,' Lemma said at a press conference Thursday.
Cahanes was one of eight children from Minnesota. Some of her siblings gathered at a home there to hear the news.
'Pam was a loving, charming farm girl at heart who wanted to continue to explore by going into the Navy,' her sister Eileen Bergmann, 69, said to the local peper.
'I guess (we) didn’t think this day would come. It was 1984. They didn’t have DNA in those days and it went on and on,' she added to Click Orlando.
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