Genetic Witnesses Family DNA Testifies in Forensic Trials

Millions of people around the world are purchasing DNA testing kits and uploading their results to genealogy websites to trace their family ... Traditional DNA analysis has limited ability to identify relatives who share genetic makeup. For example, such technology may be able to link ... Genetic genealogy, the practice of using DNA analysis to trace family trees, has revolutionized the field of criminal investigation. In recent years, Canadian police have looked to genetic genealogy to help solve cold cases dating back decades. For the Christine Jessop case, we sent the DNA sample for an SNP and uploaded it to GEDmatch and Family Tree DNA. We were lucky to get one match ... The suspect in a cold case murder was convicted using investigative genetic genealogy. The case goes all the way back to 1986. 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 ... CMPD has solved at least two cold cases using DNA evidence paired with family trees. The process is known as forensic genetic genealogy. Investigators are increasingly using family tree DNA to crack cold cases. One issue: The technology is expensive. Long Island police say they've identified the killer responsible for the death of a young woman in 1980, 42 years later on the date of her ...