Forensic Breakthrough Family DNA Solves Cold Cases

DNA can help identify previously unknown family connections and answer unknown parentage questions in genealogy. New technology is allowing detectives to take DNA evidence from old cases and search for family ties online ... used new forensic methods to solve ... FIGG applies the same technology that platforms like 23andme and Ancestry use to find genetic relatives. It works with databases like Family Tree DNA and ... Millions of people around the world are purchasing DNA testing kits and uploading their results to genealogy websites to trace their family ... At the time of the writing of Greytak et al. (2019), the main IGG database used for law enforcement (LE) cases was GEDmatch, which had over 1 ... Parabon used the old crime scene DNA to create a profile that they uploaded to GEDMatch. The website returned 12 matches of relatives, which ... Genetic genealogy databases have aided law enforcement in successfully solving some of the most notorious unsolved criminal cases like the Golden State Killer. Suspects in hundreds of unsolved murders and rapes will be identified using public DNA databases in the near future, a prominent genealogist ... Roxanne Wood murder: Genetic genealogist Gabriella Vargas helps solve a case that had "a gnat's eyebrow of DNA" left from the crime scene - CBS ... CMPD has solved at least two cold cases using DNA evidence paired with family trees. The process is known as forensic genetic genealogy.