Science Wins! California Murders Solved Thanks to New DNA Technology
Janet Ann Taylor, 21, decided to hitchhike home from the Stanford University campus on March 24, 1974. The next day, a delivery driver found the young woman, the daughter of former Stanford athletic director and football coach Chuck Taylor, dead. Janet had been strangled to death and left in a ditch on Sand Hill Road west of I-280. More than forty years later, San Mateo County, California prosecutors are charging John Arthur Getreu with her murder. The seventy-four-year-old