When Christy Mirack didn't show up to teach her sixth grade class at Rohrerstown Elementary School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania December 21, 1992, her co-worker and principal got worried and drove over to her home to investigate. When he got there, he found Christy's body and ran next door to call 911. Mirack Murder
Christy had been beaten, strangled and raped. Lying next to her body was a bloody cutting board used in her death. Christy's death was ruled a homicide by strangulation. DNA had been collected at the scene and was uploaded into the databases the police had at the time.
After 24 years, the Lancaster County police took the DNA that had been collected at the scene and submitted it to a company called Parabon Nanolabs. The lab did the phenotype work and genetic genealogy of the DNA. Parabon's genealogist painstakingly pieced together the ancestral and genealogical data. On May 18, 2018, turned that information into the police, that showed a familial connection to the DNA, and that Raymond C. Strong was a strong possibility as the source of the unknown DNA. https://lancastercountypa.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1185&ARC=1808
After a possible match was found, undercover police went to where Raymond C. Rowe, aka DJ Freez was playing music at a school dance. The police officers collected a water bottle and chewing gum, that were tested in the lab. The results came back as a match, and Raymond C. Rowe was arrested June 25, 2018, at his home. He pled guilty of rape and murder and will serve the rest of his life in prison.
Christy's brother never gave up hope finding her killer, but the one question he will probably never get an answer to is, "Why?" https://lancastercountypa.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1338&ARC=1978
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