North Texas man pleads guilty to a series of rapes, sentenced to life in prison

Name: North Texas man pleads guilty to a series of rapes, sentenced to life in prison
Uploaded: 2024-02-27T17:05:00-0600
Duration: 2 min 5 s
Description: Jeffery Wheat became the subject of a nationwide manhunt after forensic technology linked him to the four cold cases. This was the first time that technology, called Forensic Genetic Genealogy, was used to identify an offender in Collin County. It uses genetic information from direct-to-consumer companies to find a match.

Jeffery Wheat became the subject of a nationwide manhunt after forensic technology linked him to the four cold cases. This was the first time that technology, called Forensic Genetic Genealogy, was used to identify an offender in Collin County. It uses genetic information from direct-to-consumer companies to find a match.