Who Killed John Yelenic? Plus Where Is His Wife Today?

Who killed John Yelenic? The case can be lined at the Nov. 15 episode of 'Dateline.' The dentist was once stabbed at the day of his divorce finalization.

There's never a scarcity of twists and turns on NBC's Dateline. The true crime instances are introduced as hopeful at first but briefly turn unpleasant and end with a (in most cases gratifying) courthouse finishing. John Yelenic's mysterious homicide unfolds the similar means. 

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The uber a hit dentist's existence ended on the day that his divorce was meant to be finalized, main the police to suspect any person very as regards to him.

The Dateline episode led through Andrea Canning will element his blood-chilling homicide and the tragic means his body was once discovered.

So, who killed John Yelenic?

John reputedly led a rather quiet and customary existence, so when he the 39-year-old was found stabbed to demise in his Pennsylvania house in 2006, it was once a surprise for his group. Even extra devastating was once the truth that a kid had discovered John's useless frame via looking thru a window in the house.

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The dentist was once brutally stabbed, with deep cuts found all over his body. His head was driven thru a window in his space. Blood pooled around him as he died. 

John was once nearing the tip of a worrying divorce with wife Michele Yelenic at the time he was once murdered. He and his wife were supposed to wrap up their divorce at the day that John's body was found out. 

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The timing had police convinced that his ex used to be all in favour of one way or any other because John another way had no recognized enemies, and there was once no proof of a theft on the scene.

John Yelenic's wife used to be the top suspect — until her boyfriend got concerned.

Whoever killed John wasn't precisely diligent about cleansing up the crime scene. There were footprints found in the pool of blood that appeared to be from males's sneakers. Police started to rule out John's ex-wife on account of the footwear, but the story used to be much more complicated than that.

John's ex-wife had begun relationship state trooper Kevin Foley shortly after their separation. 

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Foley had been publicly heard bashing his girlfriend's ex, and multiple other people on the subject of him reported that he needed loss of life on John. So used to be Foley the only to kill him?

The footprints did, in fact, hyperlink Foley to the crime, as his shoes matched virtually perfectly to the prints found on the crime scene. The largest piece of proof used to be a bit of DNA that was once discovered beneath John fingernails, assumedly from the fight between him and his killer. The DNA matched Foley.

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Foley did have an alibi; he mentioned he was once taking part in hockey at the time John was murdered. But, a development in DNA era changed the process the case.

Though a majority of the blood discovered at the scene was found out to conclusively belong to the victim, there used to be a small proportion of the blood that belonged to the killer. This blood was once additionally matched to Foley, which further cemented the case towards him. 

Kevin Foley used to be discovered guilty of John Yelenic's loss of life in 2009. 

The era in John's case quickly changed into a precedent in court docket. Foley went on trial for the homicide of John Yelenic in 2009 and he used to be discovered responsible. His next efforts to attraction the case have thus far been unsuccessful. 

At the time he went on trial, he used to be residing with Michele Yelenic. She was once by no means brought up on charges in connection to her husband's murder. 

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Since she was once now not technically divorced from John when he was once killed, she nonetheless received a payout from his property — something his circle of relatives attempted to forestall. John also had a seven determine lifestyles insurance policy that she used to be the recipient of on the time of his dying.

Where is Michele Yelenic today? 

It seems that Michele is laying low since there has been no information of her since her boyfriend was discovered accountable of her ex-husband's homicide. 

Dateline airs on Fridays on NBC at 9 p.m.

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