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DNA expert says she found suspect Steven Downs through profile matching in 1993 Alaska murder case
The murder trial for Steven Downs, an Auburn man accused in a 1993 murder case out of Fairbanks, Alaska, continues.
Steven Downs appears in Androscoggin County Superior Court in Auburn in March 2019 for an extradition hearing.
Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
A self-described professional genetic genealogist testified Thursday that she was the one who identified an Auburn man as a match for DNA found at the scene of a murdered woman in Alaska more than two decades ago.
CeCe Moore, who has appeared in a television network series called “The Genetic Detective,” said she was working for a DNA testing company as an investigator in 2018 when Alaska State Police submitted DNA evidence discovered in 20-year-old Sophie Sergie, who was found dead in a dormitory bathroom at University of Alaska at Fairbanks on April 25, 1993.