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Genealogists Turn to Cousins’ DNA and Family Trees to Crack Five More Cold Cases

6/27/2018

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In the last seven days, genealogical sleuthing techniques that are old to a handful of genealogists but new to most law enforcement have led to arrests in Washington State and Pennsylvania and unearthed a lead in a 37-year-old murder in Texas. All three cases were only revived when crime scene DNA was uploaded to GEDMatch, the same open-source ancestry site used in the Golden State killer case.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/science/dna-family-trees-cold-cases.html


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