find out who are doe is. to try and think this is your family. you want to give them closure. two homicide detectives. it s way above our heads. and i said i think i know how we can do it. all of these people share some amount of dna with the unknown person. we thought, this is the family. this is it! surreal. it felt like someone just punch me in the stomach. it s a funny thing, isn t it? that it would be important to have a stone with your name on it. it is! written on stone. you re never forgotten. hello and welcome to dateline! in many cold cases, a grieving family is desperate to find their loved ones keller. but this mystery was not a whodunnit. the killer eventually confessed to the brutal crime. but who did the murder? that question haunted a small texas town for more than 20 years. until a team of strangers put a name with a face. here s keith morrison with the woman with no name. here is where they put her. her permanent home. no one real
fig out who our doe is. what if this is your family. you want to give them closure to us homicide detectives, it s way above our heads. i said, i think i know how we can do it. all of these people share some amount of dna with our unknown person. we thought, this is the family. this is it. surreal. it felt like somebody had just punched me in the stomach. it s a funny thing, isn t it? that it would be important to have a stone with your name on it. it is. it s written in stone. you re never forgotten. hello and welcome to dateline. in many cold cases, the victim s family is desperate to find their loved one s killer. but who did he murder? that team haunted a small town until a team of tenacious strangers put a name with a face. here s keith morrison with the woman with no name. here is where they put her. her permanent home. nobody really knew anything about her. this little cemetery in east texas. one simple marker on her grave. and the name that was
genealogy site called jen match. we get a whole list of dna matches that in all of these people share some amount of dna with our unknown person. it s important to understand the volunteers work with public dna data bases. and where it is all this dna material come from that you re able to get? so, these are all people who have taken tests with companies like ancestry dna or 23 and me. the consumer test. and who have given access to others to view their results. that s a relatively tiny percentage of the population, so the odds of finding an exact match? vanishingly small. but just by the pure probabilities, we re often lucky enough to get a decent enough match. by decent match, he means a distant relative. someone who likely doesn t even know the victim. we kind of look for a match that s in the neighborhood of maybe a second or third cousin or so is a good starting point. a starting point to work, backwards, and try to reconstruct branches of the family tree. by sco
whatever. back in gregg county, after more than a decade chasing leads on lavender doe, lieutenant hope understood that investigations had changed. genealogy is the way of the future. to us on the side detectives, is way above our heads. to be honest with you. so, you welcomed their help. we did. and across the country, someone else had taken notice of the amateur investigators working with dna doe. i liked to help ordinary people and see how genealogy are dealing with the. any is a staff writer for the atlantic magazine. i like the fact that kevin was so invested in this case. passion like that was a story worth following. and she did. watching their process. her one thing, using the victim s skin, here are billeted to narrate the dna profile. which they have little to a genealogy site called jen match.
future. to us on the side detectives, is way above our heads. to be honest with you. so, you welcomed their help. we did. and across the country, someone else had taken notice of the amateur investigators working with dna doe. i liked to help ordinary people and see how genealogy are dealing with the. any is a staff writer for the atlantic magazine. i like the fact that kevin was so invested in this case. passion like that was a story worth following. and she did. watching their process. her one thing, using the victim s skin, here are billeted to narrate the dna profile. which they have little to a genealogy site called jen match. we get a whole list of dna matches that in all of these people share some amount of dna with our unknown person. it s important to understand