As an HR pro, have you ever hired someone immediately after their internship with your company? San Diego Police might want to consider that after an intern cracked a murder case that’d been cold for 36 years.
Gerald Jackson was murdered in his apartment 36 years ago. Police never identified a suspect, and Jackson’s family thought they’d never get closure in the case.
Now a suspected killer, Gerald Metcalf, has been arrested. The person responsible for cracking the case is 24-year-old Gabrielle Wimer, a criminal-justice major.
Wimer had been assigned to look into cold cases in San Diego.
She resubmitted to the FBI fingerprints found by police who investigated the murder in 1972.
The prints made a match in the national fingerprint database with Metcalf.
At the time of the murder, the fingerprint database didn’t exist.
“I’m ready for hiring in May 2009: crime scene investigation, CSI,” Wimer told NBC’s Today. “I want to be a forensic tech.”
San Diego Detective Tony Johnson said, “If it were up to me, we’d hire her right now.”
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