Can new DNA technology help solve the 2015 murder of a Jacksonville grandmother?

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Years aft a grandma was recovered beaten to decease successful her Jacksonville location detectives are hoping for caller leads.

The woman’s girl wants answers, too.

“She was a large mother, she was a phenomenal grandmother, she was my champion friend,” said girl Kara Trimmer.

Thursday volition people six years since Bradla Cook, 61, was murdered and her car was recovered torched nearby.

Trimmer said what’s concerning astir the lawsuit is that determination was nary motion of forced introduction astatine her mom’s home, meaning whoever did this was idiosyncratic she trusted.

A acold lawsuit detective said they anticipation advancements successful DNA exertion volition assistance them find her killer.

A car connected occurrence down a Winn-Dixie connected Blanding Blvd led investigators to Cook’s location astir a mile away. Inside, they recovered Cook’s body.

“Mrs. Cook was 61 years old. She’s your neighbor, she’s your mom, she’s your grandmother. She wasn’t progressive successful immoderate nefarious activities. She wasn’t doing thing wrong,” Det. Ray Reeves said.

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Reeves said the origin of decease was blunt unit trauma but she’d been stabbed, too.

“This lawsuit successful particular, we request the community’s assistance with,” Reeves said. “There were nary signs of forced entry, truthful it was evidently idiosyncratic who she had immoderate benignant of narration with, that she knew, oregon she was trying to help.”

He said immoderate electronics were missing, but wealth was near truthful they don’t deliberation it was conscionable a robbery.

“It was confusing. Like who would hatred my parent truthful overmuch to beryllium arsenic selfish and jealous to instrumentality her from truthful galore radical that loved her unconditionally?” Trimmer said.

Trimmer said her mom, known affectionately arsenic “B,” was a loving grandma who was progressive successful the community.

She said the mourning process has been overshadowed by questions.

Investigators judge idiosyncratic killed Cook, near her successful her car, and dumped it, mounting it connected occurrence successful an effort to pain evidence. But Det. Reeves said they didn’t win and investigators person troves of grounds from some scenes.

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“And done the years, determination has been large advancements successful technology,” Reeves said. “We person truthful galore items of grounds collected from some scenes, DNA swabs and things similar that that we person been capable to re-submit implicit the past fewer months to our partners astatine the FDLE and they’re rechecking that grounds for us.”

He said detectives are already pursuing up connected the results.

In the meatime, Trimmer has a connection for whoever did this.

“Just beryllium an honorable quality and bash the close thing,” Trimmer said.

She is hopeful that caller eyes from the Cold Case portion volition soon get justness for her mom.

Anyone who knows what happened to Cook, oregon saw thing that October nighttime successful 2015, is asked to telephone JSO.

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