Bloody, bare footprints lead to decadeslong search for woman's killer
In 1993, Jeanie Childs was found stabbed more than 60 times in her Minneapolis apartment. Bloody footprints and unknown DNA left investigators without answers until a 2015 cold-case review and public DNA database finally pointed to a suspect.
Updated on: August 1, 2026 / 10:01 PM EDT / CBS News
This story originally aired on May 17, 2025.
Minnesota crime scene investigators captured footage when they got their first look inside a high-rise apartment in Minneapolis. According to police reports, at around 5:30 p.m. on June 13, 1993, a tenant reported water seeping into their apartment. A building caretaker and a security guard were called to check it out, and discovered the water was coming from apartment 2104.
Bart Epstein | Retired forensic scientist : They went into the apartment and they found that the shower was still running and causing all this flooding next door.
After the shower was turned off, they came upon a gruesome scene in the bedroom. The body of 35-year-old J eanie Childs was discovered partially under the bed. That's when police were called to investigate.
Bart Epstein : This was a violent, bloody crime scene … this is … one of the bloodiest that I'd been to.