This means we can't link Fowler to serial killer suspect Derrick Todd Lee - but we also can't rule him out either. These are the nails that likely popped off while Fowler struggled with her attacker. WAFB's Jennifer Hale has the results.Īfter careful testing, the Reliagene Lab in New Orleans could find no DNA evidence anywhere on Mari Ann Fowler's fake fingernail tips. For weeks her friends and family have been anxiously awaiting DNA tests from Fowler's fingernails that could tell whether her disappearance is linked to the south Louisiana serial killer. Tonight new results are in for the heart-wrenching case of the kidnapping of Mari Ann Fowler - wife of former Elections Commissioner Jerry Fowler. Derrick Todd Lee dies without revealing what happened to Mari Ann Fowler West Baton Rouge investigators say the case of her disappearance remains open DNA Tests Come Up Empty in Case of Mari Ann Fowler 'There's two things that eat me up every day and one of them is I have no where to go to pay my respects to my mother and I've never given her the resting place I know she deserves,' Fowler's son, John Pritchett said in an interview with WBRZ reporter Brittany Weiss. She vanished from the parking lot of a sandwich shop in West Baton Rouge on Christmas Eve 2002.

Mari Ann Fowler is believed to have been abducted and killed by Lee. There are likely more, authorities speculate. Lee was convicted in two attacks but DNA linked him to five others. Not everyone will get closure with serial killer's unexpected death Thursday

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