reconstruct branches of the family tree. by scouring the internet, mining any every possible bit of information from her certificates to death notices, to marriage licenses, to social media. where the heck do you find all this stuff? i mean, you must spend hours and hours an hours and hours an hours, in front of a computer screen trying to find it? and lots of money. yeah. the dna doe project made a new stack sketch and they put it up on the line. they added a people to raise money for that test. for lavender doe s dna. and pretty soon, the online community that followed the lavender doe case answered the call. and with a four days, the public had come through and completely funded the testing that we had to do. but before they could even get the test sent out, something very unexpected happened.
partners. we just blew together. whatever he needed, that he couldn t get that i could get, law enforcement he would send it to. me he kind of meshed together these bits of information. yes. and two things happened. one, kevin realized lavender though was not one of the missing woman he d been looking for. and to, he got hooked on the case of the girl in the lavender shirt, but he kept seeing that ends. he needed some specialized help, very specialized. i reached out to dna to see if i might be able to come out as a volunteer. the dna dna doe project, a nonprofit founded by a former rocket scientist named colleen fitzpatrick. and novelist and genealogy enthusiast margaret press. i barely knew what john and jane does meant,, but i had been retired for about a year
set out to learn from the volunteers, saw their journey to the end. it did strike us that we were the first hour gone to knowing who she actually was. so that was extremely pointing. she had been able to stand there i don t know i could not articulate what was that. like this really, i think, change doesn t change the way we work. it changed how? it makes it personal, because you think, one of this is your family? one of this could be your friend? kevin became a licensed private investigator and continue to work with the dna dna doe project, still giving back victims their long lost identities. we made a little bit of a dent, where there is never gonna be a shortage, unfortunately, of jane does to help identify. and some are like dana lynn dodd, the little girl abandoned early.
what was that like to find him? it was incredible. it was absolutely incredible. so, she began helping other adoptees find at their birth parents. and one day, while i was helping helping an adoptee, that adoptee got a phone call from the dna doe project. and she was told that she was distantly related to a jane doe. i just got intrigued. and i said, can i talk to them? before long, missy was hooked, to. and the three, kevin lori and missy, formed a team. so you are like the three musketeers sitting there together. we spend hours working together, talking to each other, almost exclusively on life. and we just get in there and block all day long about, oh my gosh, did you see this? and what about this? and where is this? who s this? i can t find this?
us, meaning a group of people who had never actually met in person. who labored away in a kitchen, or a bedroom, or the basement. who knew each other only online. like lori gaff. a former blackhawk helicopter pilot, who stumbled on facebook posting about dna doe. i was completely enthralled and me being me, had to know everything about it. and i thought, i totally want to be part of this. and was soon addicted. it will consume your life if you let it. so, i ve been making and effort to kind of set limits. one hour turns into ten, pretty quick, i would think? ten might be a slow day. this has become an obsession. then there was missy koski. a self-described search angel, who use genetic genealogy to find her biological father.