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A detective from Everett, Washington, linked two cold case killings to a known predator. Needing fresh DNA to charge him, she helped devise a clever undercover sting using chewing gum to crack the case.
A fingerprint on an 8-year-old's communion purse finally identified Chicago cop Thomas McInerney as Gloria Kowalewicz's killer after 65 years, police say.
DNA from chewed gum has linked Washington state Level 3 sex offender Mitchell Allen Gaff to the 1984 murder of Judy Weaver, overturning a decades-long police theory.