The Montana Records That Led Misty to a Killer

The Montana Records That Led Misty to a Killer

In this episode of Finding Family DNA, Jay and Misty step away from adoption reunions to revisit a 47-year-old Montana cold case Misty worked during her time at Parabon NanoLabs. In December 1978, 16-year-old Corina Lydia Contreraz was sexually assaulted and murdered outside Billings, and her case sat unsolved for decades. Misty walks through how genetic genealogy opened a path investigators hadn’t had before. Jay also shares how a high school photo signed “Love, Bill” cracked a birth father case, the two talk RootsTech 2027, and Misty explains why families get release rather than closure, and how everyday GEDmatch users can help.


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Chapters

00:00 Intro

00:11 Welcome and RootsTech 2027

03:29 A "Love, Bill" Photo and Two Reunions

07:07 The Corina Lydia Contreraz Cold Case

08:36 Working the DNA at Parabon

10:05 Building the Trees Toward Montana

12:27 Midroll — RootsTech 2027 and BirthParentFinder

13:37 Landing on Angelo Stallsmith Sr.

16:07 DNA From a 1982 Fingerprint Card

17:33 Confirmation and a Criminal History

19:26 Remembering Corina

20:16 CeCe Moore at the Press Conference

22:25 Misty at the Press Conference

23:36 Boy in the Box and Where This Case Ranks

24:19 How GEDmatch Users Can Help

25:09 What Investigators Can and Cannot Access

26:13 Birth Parent Privacy and Cooperation

27:15 Could an Amateur Have Solved It

27:59 Release, Not Closure

28:46 Thanks and Close


Yellowstone County Cold Case Unit: https://www.yellowstonecoldcase.com/

Parabon NanoLabs: https://parabon-nanolabs.com/

GEDmatch: https://www.gedmatch.com/

RootsTech 2027: https://www.rootstech.org/


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Finding Family DNA, Cold Case, Genetic Genealogy, Investigative Genetic Genealogy, Corina Lydia Contreraz, Misty Gillis, CeCe Moore, Parabon NanoLabs, GEDmatch, Family Tree DNA, BirthParentFinder, True Crime, Yellowstone County, RootsTech



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