Genetic Clues Family DNA Facilitates Case Resolutions

SEATTLE – Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today that his office's DNA forensic genetic genealogy program has now helped solve a 24-year- ... ... family members be considered in deliberations around the use of advanced forensic DNA technologies. FIGG also may be used in cases of ... Genetic genealogy, which compares DNA testing with genetic databases to construct a reverse family tree to locate a suspect otherwise unknown to investigators. 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 ... Over 8,000 potential suspects had already been considered when police arranged for a preserved sample of DNA from one of the crime scenes to be ... He was distinguished and captured in 2018 utilizing a DNA test transferred by a far off family member to a public parentage data set. 2. The ... Law enforcement, like the consumer utilizing these services, receives only a list of potential relatives of the unidentified suspect whose DNA ... Millions of people around the world are purchasing DNA testing kits and uploading their results to genealogy websites to trace their family ... Fifty years went by, and few potential leads surfaced until 2022, when the Highsmith family decided to take DNA tests through the genealogy ... Forensic genealogy uses DNA to solve crimes by identifying suspects through family connections. This article examines the evolution of this ...