Exhumed: Killer Revealed In the last episode of Season 2, the case of Virginia “Ginger” Freeman, a Texan wife, mother, and real estate agent who was killed in 1981 at age 40, was looked at. The episode, which came out on June 26, 2022, told how the sad case of Virginia Freeman took more than 35 years to solve.
The killer’s body was dug up in the last episode of Season 2 of the true crime show on Oxygen, which looks at murder cases where the bodies of the victims have to be dug up to find clues and new information. James Otto Earhart, who was put to death in 1999, was found to be the killer after his body was dug up in 2018 and his DNA was looked at in 2019.
Season 2, Episode 10 of Exhumed: The Killer is Revealed is called “Finding a Killer.”
In the last episode of Exhumed: Killer Revealed Season 2, the killer’s body was dug up instead of the victim’s. This was an unusual turn of events. It took more than 35 years to figure out who killed Virginia “Ginger” Freeman in 1981, but the person who did it had already been put to death for another crime.
The Brazos County Sheriff’s Office was able to find out that James Otto Earhart killed Virginia Freeman because DNA technology had improved. DNA from under Freeman’s fingernails was eventually used by a private lab called Parabon NanoLabs to help solve the case’s unsolved mystery.
The Brazos County Sheriff’s Office and the Texas Rangers Cold Case Task Force worked together to reopen the investigation after the first one ended in 1981 with no leads. To find the killer, the team got part of a licence plate and went back to dozens of cases. James Otto Earhart, who was on death row at the time and used to fix appliances, caught their attention as a possible lead. He was 44 years old at the time.
Kandy Kirtland, a 9-year-old girl from Bryan, was killed by Earheart, and he was put to death on August 11, 1999. He was also thought to have killed Ruth Richardson, who was 51 years old, in 1986.
Genealogy records were used by Parabon NanoLabs and investigators in 2018 to link Earhart to the murder of Freeman. But getting his DNA was hard because that would have meant digging up his body.
Authorities were able to move forward with the search after Earhart’s son gave them the go-ahead they needed. His body was dug up in 2018. But his body was buried in a cardboard box instead of a coffin, and when it was found, it was all broken up and just bones. From a femur bone, forensic scientists were able to get his DNA, which was then looked at in a lab in Austin.
In 2019, DNA from Earhart’s body that had been dug up was found to match DNA from Virginia’s fingernails that had been taken in 1981. After more than 35 years, the investigators could finally close the case because they had proof. Even though the killer couldn’t be caught or punished, knowing who did it gave Freeman’s family peace and closure.
On June 26, 2022, the second season of the true crime show Exhumed: Killer Revealed on Oxygen came to an end. Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos are the show’s executive producers. The show is about detectives digging up the bodies of dead people to find clues, breakthroughs, and plot twists that could help them solve the case.
The end of Season 2 came when the killer in a case that had been cold for more than 35 years was found. Virginia Freeman was killed in 1981, and James Otto Earhart was found to be the person who did it.