For decades, the attack on Michelle Wyatt, a 20-year-old college student, confounded investigators.
It’s coming up on 41 years since neighbors in Michelle Wyatt’s condo in the San Diego County town of Santee heard screams, and since her roommate came home the next day and made a horrifying discovery.For four decades, the deadly attack confounded every investigator who picked up the file. Years later, DNA seemed like it could help. But time and again, it didn’t.
Wyatt’s parents are in their 80s now. They miss their daughter. And they wish they’d had the opportunity to confront the person accused of killing her. The idea is to match DNA from a crime scene to relatives — even a third cousin will do — who have uploaded their DNA into public databases. A hit helps genealogists or investigators build family trees in hopes of putting a name to the mystery DNA.Because Hogan is dead, sheriff’s detectives tracked down his relatives, who provided DNA samples that helped confirm the identification.
Wyatt was a native San Diegan who graduated from Patrick Henry High School in 1977. In October 1980, she was attending Grossmont College and working as a cashier at a Mission Hills Safeway.“She was a real independent go-getter,” her father, Raymond Wyatt, said. “Pretty good in school. Knew what she wanted to do.”
In the hours before the deadly attack, Michelle Wyatt spent time with her boyfriend, hanging out and playing pool. Shortly before 1 a.m. Oct. 9, 1980, her boyfriend left, locking the door behind him.Sometime later, neighbors in her condo complex on Kerrigan Court off Magnolia Avenue heard screams. No one called 911.
Wyatt’s slaying captivated a retired San Diego police sex crimes and homicide detective who’d come across the case while moonlighting for the Sheriff’s Department. In a 1998 story on the case, the detective speculated Wyatt’s killer had been watching her and knocked on her door after her boyfriend left.In June 2000, more DNA testing revealed there were two DNA profiles. One was her boyfriend, who had been eliminated as a suspect.
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