Since the first cold case was broken in April, the floodgates have opened. Genetic genealogy has pointed to a suspect in four more cases, including two this week. Here’s the list so far:
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April 25th – Police arrested Joseph James DeAngelo for being California’s notorious Golden State Killer.
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May 18th – Truck driver William Talbott arrested for a 30-year-old double murder in Washington State.
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June 22 – Gary Hartman arrested for the murder of a 12-year old in Tacoma, Washington in 1986.
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June 25- James Otto Earhart named as the suspect in the killing of realtor Virginia Freeman. Earhart was put to death in 1999 for a different crime.
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June 25 – Police arrest Raymond “DJ Freez” Rowe, for the killing of a Pennsylvania school teacher 25 years ago.
The genealogist behind the last four cases is CeCe Moore. Moore’s genetic skills have been seen on PBS’s Finding Your Roots, on 20/20, and on daytime TV programs like The Dr. Oz Show, where she uses direct-to-consumer DNA tests to find the parents of adoptees, foundlings abandoned in dumpsters, and “war children” fathered during conflicts. She has solved hundreds of cases of unknown parentage.
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