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The Murder Solved by a Family Tree: How Genetic Genealogy Changed Cold Cases
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For decades, investigators could possess a killer’s DNA yet have no suspect to compare it against. Investigative genetic genealogy changed that equation by allowing investigators to search for relatives rather than only exact database matches. The identification of the Golden State Killer demonstrated how a decades-old biological clue could suddenly become the beginning of an investigation rather than the end.