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Authorities believed that Evans was the killer of the four Bear Brook victims, but did not elaborate. In June 2017, police released a video of a police interview of Evans in hopes of finding his true identity. [35] At the same time, Rae-Venter was helping to narrow down Evans' identity using genetic genealogy.
GEDmatch returned one person who shared DNA markers with the suspect in Martinko's murder, and it determined her to be likely the killer's second cousin once removed. The company created a family tree starting with four sets of the woman's great-great-grandparents and reported that the killer was most likely descended from one of those couples.
Investigative genetic genealogy, also known as forensic genetic genealogy, is the emerging practice of utilizing genetic information from direct-to-consumer companies for identifying suspects or victims in criminal cases. [1] As of December 2023, the use of this technology has solved a total of 651 criminal cases, including 318 individual ...
Dekalb County, GA (September 6, 2022) – Henry Fredrick Wise, AKA Hoss Wise, has been identified through genealogy DNA as Stacey Chahorski’s killer. Wise would have been 34 at the time of ...
A photo released by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office showing DeAngelo, who joined the Exeter Police Department in 1973. Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was born on November 8, 1945, in Bath, New York, to Kathleen "Kay" Louise DeGroat (June 30, 1923 – August 21, 2010) and Joseph James DeAngelo Sr. (January 19, 1920 – February 15, 1995), a sergeant in the United States Army.
50-year-old Colorado cold case solved after DNA technology identifies woman's killer. For nearly 50 years, no one knew what happened to Teree Becker. She was last seen Dec. 4, 1975, hitchhiking to ...
2 (murder) Span of crimes. 1979–1986. Colin Pitchfork (born 23 March 1960) is an English child-murderer and child-rapist. He was the first person convicted of rape and murder using DNA profiling after he murdered two girls in neighbouring Leicestershire villages: Lynda Mann in Narborough in November 1983 and Dawn Ashworth in Enderby in July 1986.
Authorities in Washington state said genetic genealogy was used to identify the youngest victim of the notorious serial killer Gary Ridgway. Known as the Green River Killer, Ridgway, now 71 ...