Out of the Ashes

Out of the Ashes refers to episode 13 of the Season 3 of the television series Forensic Files which was broadcast for the first time on December 24, 1998.

Plot summary
In 1993, 18-year-old Rose Larner went missing in Albion, Michigan. Her boyfriend, John Ortiz-Kehoe, and her childhood friend, Billy Brown, told police that they saw her early on December 7, but didn’t know where she went after that. Two years later, an investigation revealed that Billy Brown and John Kehoe were both local drug users/dealers.

Brown feared that he might be implicated in Larner’s disappearance, so he decided to cooperate with police. He told them that Larner was murdered by Kehoe two years earlier in Kehoe's grandparents' home. According to Billy Brown, Larner refused to participate in a sexual threesome, so Kehoe strangled her, placed her in the shower, and dismembered her body.

Police compared a tiny speck of blood found at Kehoe's grandparents' home to a sample of blood taken from Larner six years earlier, and it matched. Kehoe was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Billy Brown was convicted for being an accessory and served one year in prison.