suspect. dan springer has been digging into this. tracking ancestry has taken off, 56 million americans have done a genealogy test and that massive d.n.a. database is helping police solve cold cases and some before they go cold. genetic genealogy is crucial asset for law enforcement by using d.n.a. to identify human remains and criminals. sources tell fox news genealogy played a part in leading police to bryan kohberger in november. it is always a puzzle, building a picture and getting the pieces to build a picture. identify unknown sources of d.n.a. misty gillis, who has not worked on the idaho murder case says it is uploaded to a davos and compared with other profiles for similarities and used to build a family tree for etch
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specifically identify a person, and that s fingerprintspa see and dna. fingerprints have been around around f i m surehat they got or it s likely that they got fingerprints. they re my sources tell me that they did get some good dnaid profiles, but this person has never been arrested. so he is not in the dna database, which is the other way you identify a killer. butfy a what what i believe happened is they use forensic fi genealogy, which is diving intoa the commercial dna databases that are outtas that a there the available to any one of us whooo wants to pay the moneyne and lok at our own genealogy.da and those databases have builtte up a pretty good bank of dna profiles. all the way through the familyle line. and i think in. thi s hise, it s ghhighly likely that that s whae happened here, is they were able to get into commercial databases and make and make a match atan least to a relative ,and that led them to this person. pe i don t think the carson.r led h to it. wa
specifically identify a person. and that s fingerprints and dna. now, fingerprints have been around for a long time. i m sure it s likely that they got fingerprints there. my sources tell me that they did get some good dna profiles but this person has never been arrested so he s not in the dna database which is the other way you identify a killer. what i believe happened is they used forensic genealogy, which is diving into the commercial dna databases that are out there that are available to any one of us who wants to pay the money and look at our own genealogy, and those databases have built up a pretty good bank of dna profiles through the family line. i think in this case it s highly likely that that s what happened here, is they were able to get into the commercial databases and make a match, at least to a relative. and that led them to this person. i don t think the car led them to it. i think the car was incidental,
might belong to the perpetrator or somebody maybe with the perpetrator. the first thing you do is run it through codus. the national dna database. if there is no hit in there, so it doesn t currently match, then we go to the genealogy which we understand they used in this case. if your person, his exact dna is in the genealogy database, great. more likely you identify people who have familial connections potentially with your dna contributor. now you have to go out and investigate each one of those people to figure out if they re actually related to someone who lives in the area. maybe drives a white hyundai. that could lead you to your exact suspect but you don t know if it is your guy until you get a sample. that s done by good surveillance. following that person around until they drink out of a water