[4][6] The next day, authorities found the girls' bodies in the trunk of Beasley's car in Ozark, Alabama.

[9][10] In August 2018, Ozark police department reached out to Parabon NanoLabs to solve the murders.

[14] McCraney was a truck driver and preacher with no criminal record who lived about a mile from the street where the girls' bodies were found.

[17] On April 26, 2023, the jury found McCraney guilty of all charges and sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

[6][20] The murders made national headlines for years, the Ozark's police chief named the crime as one of the biggest cases in Alabama.

[32] The police department announced a nationwide, 24-hour hotline to receive tips for the murders and a reward of $15,000.

[34] He said a man had met the girls at the gas station and taken them into the woods.The police discovered that this was a false statement to claim the reward.

In August 2018, Ozark police department reached out to Parabon NanoLabs, a company based in Reston, Virginia, to solve the murders of Beasley and Hawlett, after they identified the infamous Golden State Killer as Joseph James DeAngelo.

[11] The analysis found the identification of a man from Dothan named Coley Lewis McCraney, a 45-year-old truck driver with no criminal record.

[12] Genetic genealogist CeCe Moore said that one of McCraney's relatives voluntarily submitted DNA into a genealogy database called GEDmatch.

[12] McCraney is originally from Ozark, Alabama; he attended and graduated from Carroll High School in 1992, where he served as the president of the library club and was an athlete.

A few weeks before the murders, he had a conversation with Beasley, in which she introduced herself as "Jennifer", at the Wiregrass Commons Mall.

[37] On April 26, 2023, the jury found McCraney guilty of all charges and sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole.