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April 1 - April 7, 2010 Vol. 8 • No. 13 Woodfin • Weaverville • Barnardsville Fifty Cents DNA sample breaks open cold case


By Matt Tate Woodfin police made an arrest


Tuesday (March 30) in a case that


has been mystifying investigators for nearly five years, thanks to a DNA sample from an inmate. Det. Don Guge said warrants were served on Antonio Cedillo


Morales on charges of first-degree rape, first-degree burglary and first- degree strangulation in relation to an incident at a Woodfin residence in July 2005. “Every lead was followed, but we


were unable to come up with a sus- pect,” Guge said of the initial inves- tigation. Tat was until several weeks ago


when authorities received notice that a DNA sample taken from Morales when he was first incarcer- ated for a DWI charge from Bun- combe County in 2008 matched samples taken at the home of the victim in 2005. Combined with other evidence, investigators were


able to pinpoint Morales as the pri- mary suspect. Morales, 38, was jailed in Brown’s


Creek Correctional Institution near Charlotte and was scheduled to be released in September 2012, accord- ing to the Department of Correc- tions Web site. He was transferred to Buncombe County where Guge served warrants on him. Guge said he is not sure whether Morales will remain in Buncombe County while the case is being processed. Te department received a


CODIS hit from the State Bureau of Investigation notifying of the DNA match. CODIS stands for Combined DNA Index System.


According to the dna.gov Web site, CODIS is a computer software pro- gram that operates local, state and national databases of DNA profiles from convicted offenders, unsolved crime scene evidence and missing persons. States have a statutory provision


for the establishment of a DNA database that allows for the collec- tion of DNA profiles from offend- ers convicted of particular crimes. Te software enables law enforce- ment crime laboratories to compare DNA profiles electronically, there- by linking serial crimes to each other and identifying suspects by


Continued on page 14 Accused bigamist at a loss


By Matt Tate Jimmie Goins is incensed


by his recent arrest for bigamy. From his perspective, the charge comes down to one woman’s story against his story. And, Goins says, her story does not add up. “Tis whole thing is her story


Antonio Cedillo Morales is charged in connection to a violent 2005 crime in Woodfin because of a DNA match.


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and it’s not right,” he said. Deputies from the Buncombe


County Sheriff’s Office arrested Goins on March 20 on a charge of felony bigamy. Greensboro resident Jeanne


Stout claims she was still married to Goins when he married Marsha Fisher in April 2006. A number listed for Stout was


disconnected. Stout’s complaint at the Bun-


combe County Sheriff’s Office states Stout told investigators that Goins and Fisher were married in April 2005, but Fisher said it was one year later. Goins, 49, married Stout in Feb- ruary 2000 in Dillon, SC. Accord-


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