Dan Jackson is currently a Detective with the Austin Police Department Cold Case Homicide. Dan started his career with the Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office in 2005 after graduating Texas State University with a Master’s Degree in Physical Anthropology. While working as a death investigator at TCME, he also managed the unidentified persons cases and the skeletal remains cases. Over approximately 9 years of working at TCME, Dan investigated thousands of deceased persons cases but in 2014 decided to join the Austin Police Department. Dan started the police academy in August of 2014, and after 5 years on patrol promoted to Detective in the spring of 2020. Dan was then assigned to the Homicide unit where he worked on dozens of cases until 2022 when he transferred to the Cold Case Homicide and Missing Persons Unit.

 On Dan’s first day in the Cold Case unit, he was assigned as the new lead detective into the 1991 quadruple murders of Eliza Thomas, Amy Ayers, Sarah Harbison, and Jennifer Harbison commonly referred to as the “Yogurt Shop Murders”. In September of 2025 Dan identified a new suspect in the case through DNA and ballistics. Then in February of 2026 Dan testified in an exoneration hearing to the innocence of the four original suspects in the Yogurt Shop Murders, and to the guilt of one new suspect discovered through his investigation.  Dan’s awards since becoming detective include Unit of the Year (Homicide 2021), a Purple Heart (2023), and he holds a Master’s Peace Officer certification. 

Kathy is an award-winning reporter and 37-year veteran of local television journalism who just celebrated her 32nd year at KFVS, where she anchors the 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm news. She values the numerous law enforcement sources she has developed over the course of her career, and her reporting is mainly focused on issues of crime and corruption. She recently completed a national, 11-episode podcast titled "Chasing a Ghost" about the crimes of Heartland serial killer Robert Brashers, where she highlighted the work of the southeast Missouri investigators who solved the 1998 murders of Sherri and Megan Scherer.

A 21-year veteran of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, currently assigned to the Troop E Narcotics Unit, where he has served for the past seven years. Prior to this assignment, he spent six years with the Troop E Criminal Unit and assisted with the Scherer/Scherer homicide investigation.

His presentation examines the history of the Scherer/Scherer homicide investigation and the role of DNA technology in solving the murders. It also highlights how the investigation was connected to additional homicides and sexual assaults across the United States.

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