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Podcast: True Crime Reporter
Episode: Solving The Toughest Cold Case Murders With Forensic Genetic Genealogy
Description:
The Golden State Killer got away with 12 murders, 50 rapes, and more than 100 burglaries for over forty years before being caught.
DNA evidence from his crime scenes never matched DNA samples in the FBI’s CODIS databases because he had never been arrested for murder or rape.
Eventually, investigators uploaded the profile to genealogy sites and identified a relative on the killer’s family tree.
It led to the conviction of James DeAngelo, a 72-year-old former police officer.
I’m investigative reporter Robert Riggs from inside the crime scene tape reporting how DNA ana...