In My DNA, Lindsey Wade
In My DNA, Lindsey Wade
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In My DNA
My Career Investigating Your Worst Nightmares

Author: Lindsey Wade

Narrator: Patricia Santomasso

Unabridged: 6 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/30/2023

Synopsis

In 1986, a young girl in Tacoma, Washington, Jennifer Bastian, went out for a bike ride in a local park and never came home. Later her body was found, mutilated and lifeless, but the case went cold, and Jennifer's killer was free.

The senseless killing of an innocent girl left an indelible black cloud over Tacoma for three decades and was seared into the memory of young Lindsey Wade, also from Tacoma, who went on to become the detective who would crack the case.

Horrifying crimes against women and girls motivated Wade's twenty-one-year law enforcement career and ignited her relentless pursuit of justice for victims.

Journey with Detective Wade as she investigates shocking sex crimes and homicides in the Tacoma area, where she has been crucial in bringing new DNA evidence into each cold case. From serial rapists to cold-blooded killers, Wade never backs down from the challenges these investigations present—even adding Ted Bundy's DNA to the national database. At the heart of every lead and DNA test throughout the book, Lindsey's desire to find Jennifer Bastian's murderer never relents.

About Lindsey Wade

Lindsey Wade served as a Tacoma Police Officer for twenty-one years. She has an impressive track record of utilizing her keen investigative instincts to solve violent crimes. During her fourteen years as a detective, she investigated sexual assaults, child abuse, missing persons, and homicides. She retired in 2018 as the Tacoma Police Department's cold case detective.

After retiring from the Tacoma Police Department, Lindsey joined the Washington State Attorney General's Office as a Senior Investigator assigned to the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative to pursue her passion-using DNA to solve cold cases. In 2019, Lindsey worked with state legislators to pass a new DNA law in Washington known as Jennifer & Michella's Law.

Lindsey is a member of the National Institute of Justice Cold Case Working Group, the International Homicide Investigators Association, and in 2017, she created the Washington State Cold Case Working Group.

She is a former member of the FBI ViCAP National Advisory Board and teaches child abduction response and cold case investigations for the National Criminal Justice Training Center at Fox Valley Technical College. As a subject matter expert, Lindsey has been a speaker at numerous law enforcement conferences around the country, lecturing on cold cases, sex crimes, DNA, and child abduction response.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jill- Host of the on August 08, 2024

Terrified as a young girl by two unsolved murders of--young girls, fear permeating the community, the era of free-range parenting came to an abrupt end. Lindsey grows up following her passion, becomes a detective, closing the cold cases, justice finally coming as predators are put behind bars. She b......more

Goodreads review by Bill on November 01, 2023

Fantastic book by an inspiring female detective, Lindsey Wade who was a little girl when Jennifer Bastian was raped and murdered in Tacoma, Washington in 1986. Decades later, Detective Lindsey Wade was an innovative investigator who was willing to try new techniques, including the then new tool of f......more

Goodreads review by Wen on December 21, 2023

Interesting woman who accomplished a lot!! The downfalls for this book was it was at times repetitive, and then when she stated crap about people’s low living conditions or lack of personal hygiene that she visited who freely submitted to a DNA swab. It was unnecessary for those innocent people.......more

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