Who Killed This American Hero? | Bloodline Detectives with Nancy Grace | Forensic Files

[MUSIC PLAYING] NANCY GRACE: August 5, 1984, Sanford, Florida. The body of a young Navy recruit found in an abandoned lot.
She's naked except for her underpants. Her clothes are strewn around the crime scene.
The victim's name, Pamela Cahanes, a 25-year-old young woman from Minnesota, who has just finished basic training.
I think any reasonable person would look at the murder as shocking, as horrid, but more than
anything else, as senseless. NANCY GRACE: A homicide investigation begins. Police work the case for years hoping for solid leads.
Most tips from the public lead nowhere. The case goes cold. I think somebody was always looking at this case.
The amount of information coming in would have diminished. Within a year or two, the case got cold.
NANCY GRACE: Investigators reopen the case two decades later, hopeful that forensic genetic genealogy
can finally solve the mystery of who murdered Pamela Cahanes. Pamela Cahanes joined the Navy to fight for her country,
and she spent the last eight minutes of her life fighting for her life. This is the story of a young woman ready to fight
for her country but instead she has to fight for her life and she loses the fight and her life to a vicious predator.
I'm Nancy Grace. This is a "Bloodline Detectives." [THEME MUSIC] NANCY GRACE: Sanford, Florida, August 5, 1984.
Seminole County deputies respond to a 911 call near the Naval Training Center at Lake Monroe.
So on the morning of August 5, 1984, Charles Grier is driving to work. It's 7 o'clock, but out of the corner of his eye,
he notices a figure near the side of a house. This is a house that's sort of effectively abandoned.
The doors are unlocked. There's very little inside of it. The grass is overgrown.
A bizarre scene. And he stops his car and he glances over at the figure, and he rolls his window down, and he yells at the figure.
He can tell it's a woman, and she's slumped over herself. And she doesn't respond.
So he tries again, and she doesn't respond. So he puts his car in park, opens the door,
walks around the side, and he goes over towards her. And as he's walking over there, he can notice--
he can see that there is clothes strewn all about the yard. And he gets closer to her, tries to communicate,
and it's very clear that she's dead. So he runs right back to his car, he goes home,
picks up the phone calls the police. The police are there very quickly, within 10 minutes.
They started photographing the scene, photographing her body. She was lying face down, somewhat in the fetal position.
You could see her face, and she had a lot of blood on her face. You could see the marks on her neck.
There was a lot of bruising on her neck. You could tell that she had really fought.
You could tell that she had been there overnight. She had what appeared to be insect bites on her.
She had cuts around her lip area. All these things were noted immediately by law enforcement.
The authorities were able to identify the victim very quickly, in part because she
had served in the military. So some of her clothing items had her name etched into them,
and then also her military ID was laying on the ground nearby her body. NANCY GRACE: The victim identified
as 25-year-old Pamela Cahanes. Pamela was a small town girl, who wanted to see the world.
She was from Minnesota, came from a large family, and at a certain point, decided a little later in life
that the way she thought she could see the world and experience things in a different way
was to join the armed forces. And so like so many before, and so many after, she viewed the military as an opportunity
for not only career advancement but to make a mark in the universe. I was number four in line and Pamela was number seven.
We lived on a farm in Stillwater Baytown Township, about a 200 acre farm. Pam was just a good girl, a good-hearted girl.
Always happy. She's a hero. You know, she joined the military to fight for our country and she died fighting for her life.
NANCY GRACE: Detectives focus on Pamela's background for any potential leads, while crime scene investigators
recover and preserve any and all physical evidence at the scene. In terms of the physical evidence
that was found at the crime scene, there was quite a bit. There was a hair found on her shoulder.
Again, from a foreign individual, from somebody else. They weren't able to identify who that was but they
knew it came from somewhere. In addition to that, they did find the Kmart bag that showed
that she had gone shopping. So they knew she had gone to Kmart, and she was still alive at the time.
They also found tire tracks nearby. They found over $116 and some change that was her money.
They found that. It wasn't stolen from her, which, for police, says something. Obviously, if it was a crime of opportunity,
perhaps they would have stolen the money. That didn't happen in this case. There was a receipt found with no name on it,
a container of Chinese food was laying in relatively close proximity to the body.
And they collect everything they possibly can and package it so that when it's available,
when a new technology comes up, it's there. All she had on was her panties. Her bra was found just slightly down the road,
and in my theory, he dumped the body there and then realized there were still-- a bra was in the car,
and he threw that out the window and that's how that ended up where it ended up.
It was a very sad scene. I think when law enforcement came upon that, and it looked to be a brutal murder situation.
NANCY GRACE: Back at Pamela Cahanes' home in Minnesota, Navy personnel break the horrible news to the family.
My brother, as soon as he saw them, said something's happened to Pam. And they said, well, we can't tell you.
We need to speak to your mother and dad. And he said, you tell me, and I will get you to my mother and dad.
And my brother called-- we were in the kitchen finishing up dishes or something,
and I think we pretty much all just about dropped to the floor when we heard that.
And my dad, the first thing he said when he heard of her passing, he said, I wasn't there to help her.
He felt helpless. You know, he said, why not me? My life is about over. She had so much life to live.
And my mother had a hard time just navigating day after day with the thought of Pam
not being here. I felt pain, and I felt my mother and dad's pain. She was a sister that we will never forget.
I will never forget. My sons will never forget, and a part of our family, and now she's not there.
A beautiful, young, Naval recruit endures a savage sex attack, and then she's murdered.
So far, very few clues. Can detectives catch a brutal killer? That's next on "Bloodline Detectives."
[THEME MUSIC] NANCY GRACE: Sanford, Florida, August 5, 1984. The brutally beaten, partially naked body
of 25-year-old Navy recruit Pamela Cahanes is found in an abandoned lot. Police immediately canvas the area to establish any leads.
One of the jobs would have been to go interview all her bunk mates, her classmates.
See if she has any existing issues that you're aware of, try to get inside what she was thinking at the time, what
her home life was like. What interaction she had with other personnel on the base,
if any. All of this is very labor intensive. NANCY GRACE: Detectives can place Pamela Cahanes the night
before her murder at the Mariners Club, where recruits are celebrating the end of basic training.
The Mariner Club is basically a social club. It's a bar, dance club. It's a place where people in the armed forces hang out together.
Pamela was very excited about this night, and so she was there, and there are many eyewitnesses that place her there
the night before the murder. And she had conversations with folks and she was dancing with a guy at one point.
They did identify the gentleman she was dancing with at the Mariners Club. They pursued him as a suspect for a lengthy time,
and it just proved negative. He was not involved. It was also established in the police investigation,
they had a number of interviews with people who were there that night, that she was also going to go shopping,
and she had a whole laundry list of things that she was going to get. She went to numerous stores.
There was receipts that shows that earlier in the day had been in the fashion-- it was called the Fashion Square Mall.
There was a big Sears store there, and she had purchased some items from Sears, which all of this
would have been very close to the Naval Training Center. It's probably within a mile from there.
There was also a Kmart that was across the street from the mall, and she purchased some personal items
there earlier that day as well. But the biggest thing that stood in law enforcement's
way, the DNA that they had, the material under the fingernails, any sort of prints or anything else, they
couldn't do anything with it. DNA technology was just not far enough along at the time
where they could, in any reliable way, find suspects or cross-reference them. There are plenty of witnesses who
place Pamela Cahanes at the Mariners Club and plenty of receipts that can track her whereabouts before that.
But then, her trail goes cold. Detectives unable to establish where Pamela goes after leaving
the Mariners Club and with who? My belief was that she was murdered somewhere else
and her killer saw this location in Sanford, because it wasn't very well populated.
It was a vacant home, nobody lived there. It was for sale. The grass was overgrown.
And probably put in the trunk of a car, threw her out like a piece of trash, and threw through her belongings out
and strewn them around the yard. The murder was a shocking event for the people of Central Florida,
for Sanford, and then also for the Naval community. It was devastating and it certainly penetrated a sense
of security amongst many young people, who are in the armed forces. One of the witnesses that we spoke to,
one of her cadet mates, she told us about how they all found out about Pamela's death, and they realized Pamela
hadn't come home that night. And they were all lined up outside, and they were told what happened.
And certainly, I think that there was a fear that if-- how does this happen and could this happen to me?
I know early on there was a lot of effort that was expended into trying to develop a suspect.
So I think probably within a couple of years after the crime committed, there wasn't as much activity.
Let's put it that way. I think somebody was always looking at this case. You know, you get a phone call, you get a tip,
something like that. But certainly within the first year or two, the amount of information coming in would have diminished,
and I would say within a year or two, the case probably got cold. Months drag into years.
The investigation into Pamela Cahanes' murder hits a dead end. Then, a new generation of investigators with new DNA
technology take over the case. They discover a crucial piece of evidence from the original crime scene.
The case remained ice cold until the mid 1990s. And what they found was semen on an article of her clothing.
By this time, DNA technology had evolved to such a point that they could start to look at it again.
And the case was back in the news, and it was back in public discourse, and hope came on the horizon that maybe one day the killer
would be brought to justice. When they first started doing DNA, I believe that they were using this DNA called RFLP.
You needed a lot of biological material in order to get a partial profile. They were able to make a determination that the DNA
profile that was obtained from the semen on the underpants matched one of the DNA profiles that
was found under the fingernails of Pamela Cahanes. So what that means is that the same person that put the semen
on the underpants was the same person that killed Pamela Cahanes because his DNA was under her fingernails,
and we know that Pamela was fighting for her life pulling the hands of her killer off of her neck.
We immediately tried comparing that to known databases with negative results. You need a certain amount of indicators
to load it into the database. We had enough for local databases, but not the national database.
Everybody did the best they could with what they had available to them at the time.
NANCY GRACE: DNA forensic technology improves in the 2000s and investigators become cautiously hopeful Pamela Cahanes' killer will be caught.
Another reason why law enforcement continued to follow this case is because Pamela's family would not let it go,
and so many of us can understand why. And I'm sure that if we were in the same position,
many would do the same thing. Her sister Eileen was a driving force in this. She kept up with the latest news,
she studied the latest law enforcement techniques. In a lot of ways, she became an expert on the subject.
And towards the end of the 2010s, there was a huge breakthrough in this technology.
And it came in the Golden State Killer murder case, where that technology was used to conclusively
identify the killer. Eileen saw this in the news, and she told law enforcement about it.
She said, well, why don't we try to use those same means in this investigation? NCIS, they were keeping tabs on this case.
They were investigating it. They were doing things. They were having regular meetings and regular reports
with regard to any updates. I think the big break, other than the DNA being able to develop a profile, came when the decision was made
to start looking at some of these genetic testing organizations out there. They were presenting at some conference with one
of the investigators from the Sheriff's Office, and they started thinking, what is this?
What can it do? And then investigators heard about it at another homicide that was solved because of it, and then started
that ball rolling and seeing what we could do with what was available out there.
Finally, investigators believe they've got the crime scene evidence that will catch a killer,
but now, they need to use a new forensic science to unlock the secrets that evidence hides.
That's next on "Bloodline Detectives." NANCY GRACE: Sanford, Florida, August 1984.
Gorgeous, 25-year-old Naval recruit Pamela Cahanes found raped and murdered. For years, her case goes cold.
But 10 years later, investigators discover they do have DNA from the crime scene.
But with the tools available at that time, they still can't get a match. In 2018, detectives contact Parabon Nanolabs, specialists
in forensic genetic genealogy hoping that Parabon can help crack this case once and for all.
This cold case that had been cold for so long was now incredibly hot. One company, Parabon Nanolabs, was
able to take it a step further to find this perpetrator. In mid 2018, I decided to join forces with Parabon Nanolabs.
They are a genetic technology company that specializes in SNP genotyping crime scene DNA, and so Pamela's case
came to me through Parabon. Parabon has long existing relationships with a lot of law enforcement agencies,
with FDLE, which is the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. They are innovative and groundbreaking.
They were the first state in the country to have their own investigative genetic genealogy team
in-house. In this case, there were a few sources of DNA. One came from underneath Pamela's fingernails.
The second source was the semen that was found on her clothes. Effectively, investigators were able to combine
those two sources of DNA to create a profile. That profile is then used through government databases
to find criminals. I knew that Pamela was serving our country when she was murdered and that she had just
graduated from her training. She was found strangled, raped, and thrown in a ditch.
She was still really young and somebody decided that they had the right to snuff out her life when
she had a lot to contribute. And so this was a case that was sent to Parabon, and a lot of things happen to it before it lands on my desk.
It has to go through the lab process and have the DNA analyzed, looking at hundreds
of thousands of genetic markers called SNPs through a microarray genotyping process.
Snapshot DNA phenotyping is using someone's DNA to predict their physical traits,
and so this is something that is relatively new and groundbreaking. Not only can you retroactively find people using their DNA,
but you can proactively find them and actually get a picture of who they look like, a profile who they look
like, by their DNA, from their DNA. They were able to determine that the perpetrator was
most likely African-American. Because many of the African-Americans living in the United States today are descended from enslaved
individuals, many of their family trees hit this genealogical brick wall at the Civil War.
So the 1870 census is the first time that formerly enslaved individuals are mentioned
by name in a US Census, and so that makes it exceedingly difficult to get far enough back.
Very often, you can't identify those common ancestors, and even if you can, you can't identify
all of their descendants. Because, as we know, families were torn apart, families took different surnames.
They were owned by different individuals and often took those surnames. Many of them couldn't find each other after the Civil War
and after slavery ended, and so it can really make a case like this very complicated.
Because we actually had two pretty strong matches, maybe around second cousin, second cousin once removed level,
but the problem was we didn't have hardly anything for supporting matches. Because after those first two strong matches,
they dropped way down to extremely distant matches. But what was fortunate is the top two matches not sharing DNA
with each other meant that they represented two different branches of the suspect's family tree.
and it turned out that one was on his mother's side and one was on his father's side.
So we had to build forward from all of these matches, great grandparents and great, great grandparents
trying to find that intersection. That intersection was found where that person from match
number one's family tree marries that descendant from match number two's family tree, and so that pointed
right at one immediate family. My partner was kind enough to call me at my house
and tell me that they had a name of a suspect and where he was located. My partner had done the investigative work
on his background along with NCIS, the records they obtained, and all the information seemed to fit.
He was at the Navy base at the time, he was a dental tech, he was currently up in Jacksonville, Florida.
He had a minor history at the time with violence and women, so it was perfect. It was a perfect match.
The last name that the police get, the surname is Garner, so they go through the records.
They go through all their suspects and people of interest and they hone in on two people in particular.
They're brothers, both of the last name Garner, who live in the state of Florida.
They decide to hone in on one in particular. They have to collect surreptitious DNA in order
to vet the lead that is provided through investigative genetic genealogy. So they weren't able to arrest him until they could confirm
or refute whether Thomas Garner, who had been developed through investigative genetic genealogy,
was actually Pamela's killer. And so in order to do that, law enforcement often has to follow someone, or they
have to go through their trash. And so in this case, they had to follow Thomas Garner until he disposed of something
that would have his DNA on it. And they actually pulled multiple bags and were able to narrow down the bag
that was his by a receipt that had his name inside that bag. After going through all of these--
if you can imagine, going through 10 bags of garbage, and then coming upon one that had a receipt
that had his name on it. They collected used dental floss, a cigarette butt, and I think a cotton swab.
And so once they collected that DNA surreptitiously from him, he had no idea he was about to have his life changed.
They took that to their crime lab and they processed that DNA and compared it against their STR
profile that had been developed many, many years prior. That profile is the one that never got a match in the law
enforcement databases. And this time, they got their match. One of the incredible benefits of unlocking forensic DNA
is not only that it leads investigators to the suspect they're pursuing, but sometimes, it can lead to other murders
as well, and that's exactly what happens here. Thomas Garner's DNA connects him not just
to the killing of Pamela Cahanes in 1984, but also to another unsolved murder in Hawaii two years earlier.
Once Garner's DNA profile goes into CODIS, you know, there are cold cases all around the country,
and Hawaii was able to get a hit from CODIS on a profile that they had on the murder of Cathy Hicks,
and it matched Thomas Garner's. And then we were able to discover that it was a very
similar situation, where Cathy Hicks was in Hawaii as part of a softball tournament with Delta Airlines.
We learned that she was in a hotel, people had seen her leave with somebody by the name of Tommy
or Thomas and go somewhere with him, and her body was found-- apparently looks just like this one did,
dumped on the side of the road, just like Pamela was and strangulation as well. So very similar facts that what we had in Pamela's death.
I think there's a lot that we still don't know about Thomas Garner, and the state of Hawaii has a lot
of questions about him as well. There is a pending criminal action against him. There was an indictment that has been issued against him,
and the state of Hawaii is trying to get him extradited out of Florida to face a murder charge.
It's very possible he might be a serial killer. NANCY GRACE: The net is closing in on Thomas Garner.
Detectives prepare to question him. We want to try to talk to him actually before he's arrested.
We want to see what he's going to say. Unfortunately, for him, he ran into two very skilled investigators that questioned
him in his apartment. And they went to him, and they just started asking him questions and trying to get a feel from him
of what, if anything, he knew, and what he was going to say about the situation.
Investigators have a suspect and they've got a DNA link to the crime scene. Next, on "Bloodline Detectives," will
Pamela Cahanes' family finally see her killer brought to justice? [THEME MUSIC] NANCY GRACE: Seminole County, Florida, 2021.
35 years have passed since the body of a beautiful, young Navy recruit, Pamela Cahanes, found sex assaulted and murdered.
Now, detectives use genetic genealogy to identify a prime suspect. His name, Thomas Garner.
After the garbage bag is found, the police are hot on his tail, and they want to talk to him.
So, investigators go right to his apartment. They knock on the door and Thomas lets them in.
They sit down and they talk to him at length. He's not making eye contact, he's changing the subject.
And in this police officer's opinion, that's not a good sign. We want to make sure we got the right gentleman.
Were you in the Navy back in the '80s? The reaction was just total indifference.
I mean, I would think that somebody seeing a photograph of somebody who's been murdered would at least show some type
of sympathy for the victim, of course, and for her family members. He was just ice cold.
Had no reaction. Was totally indifferent. He had indicated that he was in a relationship, a long term
relationship, and he would not have been in a sexual relationship with any other individual
than his girlfriend at the time. And that he also would not have-- was not in a position and would not have dated
or had sex with a white woman back when this crime was committed. NANCY GRACE: Thomas Garner's story does
not stack up for detectives. They decide to make an arrest. I went with them. I sat in the van and watched as they arrested him,
my partner and NCIS jointly. And they transported him back to the NCIS center in Jacksonville for interviews.
He refused to give it up. That was what helped us the most as far as strategically
knowing that we had our guy and now locking him into a story, because that's the whole thing.
Is we wanted to lock him into a story, and we were thrilled that that was the story that he
wanted to tell that day. Because there's no way for him to explain how his semen gets
on her panties, and how his DNA gets under her fingernails, and how his hair gets on her bare shoulder
that is sitting in a field in Sanford, Florida, if he had no contact with her. Thomas Garner may very well tell
police what they're accusing him of is bizarre, but the cops know the truth. The DNA evidence and forensic genealogy do not lie.
That's next on "Bloodline Detectives." [THEME MUSIC] NANCY GRACE: Seminole County, Florida, 2021.
Detectives arrest a suspect in the 1984 rape and murder of Navy recruit Pamela Cahanes.
His name, Thomas Garner. His DNA left at the crime scene nearly 40 years before,
and it proves he's the killer. But the main things that he says in that interview is the same thing, completely
denies having any knowledge. I have no idea what you're talking about. He continues to deny that.
You know, they show him a picture of the neck of Pamela Cahanes and the bruising
and the brutality that that photograph showed. And he does like, hm. He never asked.
He never not once asked how did she die? He never not once said, I feel bad for the family of her,
but I have no idea-- I had nothing to do with this. He never said any of those things.
His words were, who is going to take me home after this arrest? And just not feeling the, I guess, the anguish
that we felt, that now you're finally caught and you're going to be behind bars for a long period of time.
He thought it was going to be an hour and he's going to be back home. And that was kind of appalling to us,
that there was no remorse. None whatsoever. NANCY GRACE: May 2021, the trial of Thomas Garner begins.
The now 61-year-old dental hygienist facing a first degree murder charge. And my goal was to take his words
and show that he's a liar. And certainly he made it easy because he totally changed
his story when he was testifying compared to both the statements that he had given
previously to law enforcement. He basically said he was very promiscuous, that he
had sex with so many people. He just said sex was just something he did all of the time.
He definitely seemed to talk about women sort of in a very dispassionate way, sort of as a conquest,
as a number, not really as individuals, not really as people. And he openly talks about that.
He would openly talk about past relationships that he had, very casual relationships that he had,
and he didn't think anything of it. And Anna is doing the cross-examination and he's contradicting himself with what he was telling
the law enforcement officers. And so one of the questions that Anna asked him is, well, look,
that's not what you just said in this video that we just watched. Didn't you watch the video?
And his response was, I don't like looking at that video. I didn't like looking at that video.
It made me look fat. This guy is being tried for murder. He could go to prison for the rest of his life,
and that's what comes out of his mouth. He didn't like looking at the video because he thinks he's fat.
What a jerk. The prosecutors weaved a very compelling story, and it was one of time.
It was one of the impact of time. They asked the jurors, they asked everyone in the room,
to be quiet for 90 seconds. They believe that that was the amount of time that it took for Pamela to be strangled to death.
And they made everyone in that room sit in silence, the judge included, sit in silence for 90 seconds and just soak
in the awful grim reality of what those 90 seconds really meant. The state rested their case, the defense rested their case,
the jury was given jury instructions from the judge, but within two hours, the jury came back
with a conclusive result. He was guilty, a unanimous decision, of first degree murder.
I was happy that he's put away, and he can think about this every day of his life
why he is where he is. I hope that he's suffering. I hope that he says her name every day
and knows exactly why he's there. There is justice. It came. It took a long time, but, yes, that's justice.
This case is a perfect example of teamwork. It took a lot of people to pull this case together.
When you do a cold case, it is unique because of that. There's so many people involved and to see a life lost
like that, it's difficult. This is what we do, and it's what we get the reward from is being involved in cases
like this and helping bring some sense of justice to the families. The preservation of evidence, exemplary because it was kept
in such a way that as the technology progressed, the items of evidence could be further analyzed,
and then that DNA could be extracted from it. Had it not been preserved in the way
that it was 10, 15, 20 years later, we would not have been able to look at those items of evidence
and test them for DNA. I think the one thing that really stands out to me, Pamela's family's commitment to this case
and not to ever let it die. They always wanted to stay involved and keep up with it.
And the fact that 30 plus years went by, and they were just as interested in it,
30 plus years after the crime was committed. Every time I pray for her, it'd give me this courage never
to forget, never to let it go. Continue no matter how much it hurts, and it hurts.
It still hurts to not have her here. And sometimes, to think about the things I would still have with her, that hurts.
I still miss her. I still miss her. It's very hard to imagine a more tragic story than that
of Pamela Cahanes, a beautiful, young, Navy recruit with her whole life before her.
Her devotion to her country, to her family and friends, and then her murder leaving a deep emotional scar
on every single person who helped solve her case. Pamela's family and the "Bloodline Detectives"
understand Pamela's sense of duty, that sense of duty drove them to find justice for Pamela.
I'm Nancy Grace. Thank you for being with us here on "Bloodline Detectives." [THEME MUSIC]

Sanford, Florida, 1984, the bruised and bloodied body of 25-year-old Naval recruit Pamela Cahanes is discovered in an abandoned lot. Police leave no stone unturned in their investigation but the case goes cold. 35 years later, detectives utilize forensic genetic genealogy which leads them to a suspect. Will it be enough to finally close the case?

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Brief Summary

Pamela Cahanes was murdered in 1984; Thomas Garner was identified and arrested decades later through DNA evidence.

Key points

The Murder of Pamela Cahanes. Pamela Cahanes, a young Navy recruit, is found murdered in Sanford, Florida.
Cold Case Reopened. After decades, investigators reopen the case with new forensic genetic genealogy techniques.
Breakthrough in DNA Technology. Advancements in DNA technology lead to a potential breakthrough in identifying Pamela's killer.
DNA Evidence Leads to Arrest. Thomas Garner's DNA links him to the murder of Pamela Cahanes after decades.
Trial of Thomas Garner Begins. The trial reveals inconsistencies in Garner's story as he faces murder charges.
Justice for Pamela Cahanes. After years of investigation, justice is finally served for Pamela's family.

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She joined the military to fight for our country and died fighting for her life.

Nancy Grace reflects on Pamela Cahanes' tragic story.

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