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November of that year at the Shiawassee County Courthouse. He claimed in his defense that he had had consensual sex with Magyar. But experts testified that Wingeart's DNA was left on Magyar during the brief timeframe that she went missing and was killed. On November 27, 2001, Wingeart
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analysis (which had not been available as a forensic tool when the earlier investigation was conducted) might yield evidence to identify Magyar's killer, as the county police had collected sperm specimens from Magyar's body at the time of the crime. The
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In 1998, police located the gun's owner, Robert Shaw. He told authorities that he had owned the gun which they found, but that it had been lost many years before. He was cleared in the case by DNA testing. A few years later, Shaw told police that he remembered that, soon after they divorced, his
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police to charge Jerald Leroy
Wingeart in 2001, who was identified by DNA collected at the murder scene. In November 2001, he was tried and convicted in the case, and sentenced to life in prison. The case was closed more than 28 years after Magyar's body was found.
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Lansing arranged for forensic DNA testing on this material to develop profiles of Magyar and her potential rapist and killer. They also arranged for testing by an independent laboratory. They renewed their search for the known men in Magyar's life.
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Eleanor and brother Larry Swan and his wife were alive to see justice served for Dawn. The father Ralph Swan had died in 1988. Jerald Wingeart died in prison. His prison status was changed to discharged 8/20/2022 per MDOC records.
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time of Magyar's murder. Unable to establish any link between
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gun. An autopsy indicated that she had likely been killed within 90 minutes of being abducted. The bullets came from two
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