The Murder Solved by a Family Tree: How Genetic Genealogy Changed Cold Cases

The Murder Solved by a Family Tree: How Genetic Genealogy Changed Cold Cases

For decades, investigators could possess a killer’s DNA yet have no suspect to compare it against. Investigative genetic genealogy changed that equation by allowing investigators to search for relatives rather than only exact database matches. The identification of the Golden State Killer demonstrated how a decades-old biological clue could suddenly become the beginning of an investigation rather than the end.

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The Name That Was There All Along: The 23-Year Hunt for Joshua Crawford’s Killer

The Name That Was There All Along: The 23-Year Hunt for Joshua Crawford’s Killer

Joshua Wayne Crawford was found murdered inside his Maryland apartment on the day he turned 21, leaving investigators with a violent crime scene but no arrest. For 23 years, detectives revisited leads...

27 Sep 3min

Six Years, One Scene, and Evidence That Waited: The Tyler Hall Case

Six Years, One Scene, and Evidence That Waited: The Tyler Hall Case

On September 17, 2026, the GBI announced murder and related charges against Rashad Jackson in the 2020 death of Tyler Hall in Norcross, Georgia. Hall, 21, was found shot in his home in August 2020. Th...

21 Sep 2min

The Mile Marker

The Mile Marker

May 1973 two New Jersey sisters on a Florida Keys vacation were last seen hitchhiking on Stock Island; the next day their bodies were found in the woods off U.S. 1 in Key Largo. Fifty-three years late...

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The Night That Waited

The Night That Waited

Two assaults, decades apart and a thousand miles from each other, sat in evidence rooms until the science caught up. In Lawrence, Kansas, a 2009 stranger rape on a darkened sidewalk finally produced a...

13 Sep 2min

Forty Years Later: How DNA Closed Jefferson Parish’s Airline Park Rape Spree

Forty Years Later: How DNA Closed Jefferson Parish’s Airline Park Rape Spree

In 1986, a masked intruder terrorized East Jefferson homes and vanished. Nearly four decades later, a Georgia inmate already serving life was linked by DNA and a palm print to six aggravated rape coun...

9 Sep 2min

A Drop of Blood, a Plastic Fork, and Fourteen Years

A Drop of Blood, a Plastic Fork, and Fourteen Years

Irasema Chavez was stabbed more than 100 times in her Arlington, Texas, apartment in January 2012. After CODIS produced no hit, FBI investigative genetic genealogy pointed to her friend Mayra Velasque...

7 Sep 3min

: The AA Meeting Killer: DNA, a Grave, and Two Murders Sixteen Years Apart

: The AA Meeting Killer: DNA, a Grave, and Two Murders Sixteen Years Apart

In May 1991, 30-year-old mother Sherrie Bridgewater was raped and strangled in her Las Vegas apartment. Decades later, the same DNA profile tied her death to the 1975 slaying of Teree Becker in a West...

31 Aug 2min

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