More than two decades after a mutilated body was found in the woods of northern Alabama, police have identified the cold-case victim with cutting edge DNA technology.
Mutilated remains found along a creek in Union Grove, Alabama, on April 15, 1997, have been identified as 20-year-old Jefferey Douglas Kimzey of Santa Barbara, California. police have identified the cold-case victim with cutting edge DNA technology.
However, police on Wednesday announced a breakthrough, identifying the remains as 20-year-old Jefferey Douglas Kimzey of Santa Barbara, California. The sheriff's office also said there are persons of interest in the case and that investigators are actively pursuing leads.came in 2019 when Sheriff Phil Sims and then-Chief Investigator Keith Wilson partnered with Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a DNA technology company.
"With genetic genealogy and SNP testing, we can find second, third, fourth cousins and beyond, and we can use that information to reverse engineer someone’s identity," Moore told the outlet.
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