{"id":266065,"date":"2025-09-30T08:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/266065\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T08:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:40:12","slug":"day-2-in-1999-cold-case-first-nyc-case-to-come-to-trial-using-familial-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/266065\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 in 1999 cold case, first NYC case to come to trial using familial DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 22-year-old cold case trial against Joseph Martinez, aka &#8220;Jupiter Joe,&#8221; unfolded continued in court for a second day on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez is accused of strangling and discarding the body of 13-year-old Minerliz Soriano\u2019s in a dumpster back in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>The trial\u2019s third witness took the stand Monday &#8211; a DNA expert who worked at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>The expert confirmed that the stain found on Soriano\u2019s sweater, which contained DNA matching Martinez, was semen.<\/p>\n<p>This testimony follows the defense\u2019s claims from the first day of trial, where Martinez\u2019s attorney suggested that the stains could have been caused by mucus or particles from riding an elevator during flu season, rather than being evidence of a crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 22-year-old cold case trial against Joseph Martinez, aka &#8220;Jupiter Joe,&#8221; unfolded continued in court for a second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":266066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5624,5564,138788,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-266065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-cold-case","10":"tag-dna","11":"tag-dna-evidence","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115292354916788418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}