Genetic genealogy has become a powerful tool used by law enforcement to help close cold cases — and to find people wanted in current criminal investigations. FOX13
A Washington judge unsealed the search warrant for Bryan Kohberger, the man suspected of murdering four University of Idaho students. These critical documents reveal what investigators hoped to find in his apartment and office.where the trail went cold decades ago.
"We look at the genetic relatives of our unknown sample," genetic genealogist Misty Gillis, of Identifinders International and BirthParentFinder, told Fox News. "It gives us a list of all the DNA matches that they have, and it tells us how much DNA is shared with that person, an estimation of what their relationship could be with that person, whether it’s a first cousin, a second cousin or a third cousin."Bryan Christopher Kohberger was arrested the morning of Dec.
Gillis was also one of the two genealogists who identified Harold Dean Clouse and his wife, Tina Linn Clouse, a pair of John and Jane Does found dead in the woods near Houston in 1981. Their murder and the search for their"All we have is our identity and our name... and if somebody can be buried under that name and that legacy and that story, that means the world to me," she said.
Genetic genealogy helped identify Harold Dean Clouse and Tina Linn Clouse, a pair of John and Jane Does found dead near Houston in 1981.
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