#investigative-genetic-genealogy

#investigative-genetic-genealogy

Breaking moments ago, the Arizona sheriff in charge of finding Nancy Guthrie telling our own Jonathan Hunt that DNA recovered from a glove two miles away from Nancy's home did not return any matches when submitted into the national CODIS (Combined DNA Index System) database. This was expected to be a potential big break in the case, Roberts began, adding:

Toronto police say they have linked three cold cases from the 1980s and identified the killer of three women over the span of five years as the same man. Through DNA testing, or investigative genetic genealogy, police have identified Kenneth Smith as the killer of Christine Prince, Gracelyn Greenridge and Claire Samson, Det. Sgt. Steve Smith said in a video statement provided by Toronto police Thursday. The three women were killed in separate incidents between 1982 and 1987, Smith said.

Michael Sidney Hill, a British man who died in Arizona in 2013, was identified after a decade of being known only as 'Maricopa County John Doe 2013'.