Cracking Cold Cases Using Investigative Genetic Genealogy
For the past few years, Cairenn Binder and her team of students at Ramapo College of New Jersey’s IGG Center have been using investigative genetic genealogy (IGG) to identify human remains, solve viol...
5 Nov 20241h 7min
The Disappearance of Lynn Burdick
1982 - Florida, Massachusetts. On a rainy Saturday evening in April 1982, 18-year-old Lynn Burdick was working alone at the Barefoot Peddlar, a small country store in the Berkshires. By the end of he...
23 Okt 202453min
Justice for Chandler Innarelli
2020 - Manchester, New Hampshire. On February 19, 2020, 22-year-old Chandler Innarelli was shot while sitting in a car in an alley in Manchester, NH. Chandler was waiting for his girlfriend and their...
8 Okt 202459min
The Murders of Barry and Dena Pinto
1983 - Plymouth, Massachusetts. On a cold night in February 1983, Barry Pinto, 26, and his wife, Dena, 24, were brutally shot in their own home, while their infant son sat helpless in a nearby plaype...
24 Sep 202455min
The Strange Case of Lancelot Cooper
1951 - Brunswick, Maine. Police heard the woman’s screams before they even reached the door. They were responding to a late night break-in at the apartment of 56-year-old Lancelot Cooper, a prominen...
10 Sep 202443min
Sonya Moore: Cold Case in New Hampshire
1989 - Dunbarton, New Hampshire. In November of 1989, 14-year-old Sonya Moore disappeared. At first, her mother thought it was typical Sonya behavior. After all, the teenager had a habit of stayin...
27 Aug 202458min
The Tragic Murder of Henry Bedard
1974 - Swampscott, Massachusetts. In the shadows of the early-December afternoon, somebody with a baseball bat beat the life out of 15-year-old Henry Bedard Jr. He had been on his way home to wrap a ...
13 Aug 202458min
The Unsolved Case of Brian Kowalczyk
1986 - Winthrop, Maine. On a cool November night in 1986, an intruder entered the geodesic dome home of 34-year-old Brian Kowalczyk, firing multiple shots before stabbing the Snap-On Tools salesman t...
30 Jul 202440min
