In March 2003, a lorry driver was found dead behind the wheel in Camberley, England. Police gambled on the revolutionary technique of familial DNA analysis.
In 1976, a woman was left for dead in her home in southern California. Despite a major manhunt, the violent killer avoided detection for over four decades.
On Valentines' Day 2007, police in Southern California were called to a particularly violent murder scene. Advances in forensic genealogy finally solved the case.
In 2018, two paralegals were shot dead while at work in Scottsdale, Arizona. Four more victims were linked to the killing - and a serial killer was supected of being at large.
In 1984, a young woman's body was discovered in a lane close to her home in Bath, England. How did police eventually track down the perpetrator of this heinous attack?
After being reported missing, a young couple's bodies were discovered more than 60 miles apart. Dedicated investigators set out to find their killer.
In 1979, two young boys came home from school to find their mother's dead body in the living room. Investigators set out to track down the killer with no firm leads.
After a young woman was found beaten to death in Wisconsin in 1984, the killer evaded detection for decades. However, a revolutionary DNA method later revealed his identity.
The murder of a respected teacher brutally attacked in her Pennsylvania home. Her death shocked the community, though it took 27 years for dedicated investigators trace her killer.
Detectives and forensic experts recount the most extraordinary cold cases that were solved using the revolutionary technique of familial DNA testing.
The police investigation into the Washoe County murder.
In 1988, police discover the mutilated body of Lynette White. 25 years later, a ground-breaking DNA technique would finally lead detectives to the killer.
In 1994, 42-year-old Le Bich-Thuy is found dead next to her home. Decades later, DNA and genealogy technology allow detectives to track down the killer.
In 2001, a young couple were brutally assaulted in Salisbury, Wiltshire. Over a decade later, new DNA technology helped lead investigators to the attacker.
In Colorado in 1996, a young woman’s body was found in an alley. After the case goes cold, advancements in genetic technology lead police to the killer.
In 2001, a student is attacked in Williamsburg, Virginia and months later the attacker strikes again. Finally, new DNA technology reveals the perpetrator.
Following the decadeslong investigation into the murder of Helene Pruszynski.
In 1999, hospital worker Jennifer Watkins was sexually assaulted and murdered. Two decades later, revolutionary DNA testing helps to solve this cold case.
In 1992, a woman is sexually assaulted in Sacramento, California by a man wearing a ski mask. This sexual predator continues to commit heinous crimes until new evidence exposes his identity.
When two teens are found dead in Montana, detectives suspect an infamous gangster might be responsible. But it will take 65 years to find the true culprit.
A small community in Utah is shocked when an elderly woman is brutally attacked in her own home. Detectives use innovative techniques to solve the case.
After decades of searching, Ohio detectives use ground-breaking technology to hunt down the man who abducted and sexually assaulted a 19-year-old woman.
In 1997, two women are sexually assaulted in separate attacks. Forensic evidence suggests the crimes are linked, but it takes over two decades to find the perpetrator.
In 1974, a community in Montana was rocked by the sexual assault and murder of a young girl. The case went unsolved for 46 years before advances in DNA technology found the culprit.
Ricky Davis was convicted of the 1985 murder of a woman, but always maintained his innocence. It took 18 years before re-examined DNA evidence proved him right.
In 1981, a high school student is found dead on the side of a road. Police work tirelessly on the case until new DNA technology exposes the killer.
In 1995, a masked man commits multiple sexual assaults at knife-point. It ends up taking over twenty years for this serial rapist to be identified and then to be brought to justice.
In 2016, a horrific crime leads detectives on the trail of a man who rapes his victims at gunpoint. It will take ground-breaking genealogy tools to find the perpetrator.
In 1977, the body of a young woman is found covered in flies and maggots. Police officers fail to identify the victim until revolutionary technology breaks open the case.
In 1968, a 60-year-old is brutally raped and killed inside her own home. A devastating flood halts the police investigation until ground-breaking science offers new hope.
In 1998, the bodies of Megan and Sherri Scherer are found lifeless in their sitting room. Both had been shot in the head several times
In 1976, Leslie Penrod Harris storms out of a restaurant after an argument with her husband. Hours later, her body is found near El Toro Air Base.
December 1987 in Ohio, the nude body of 17-year-old Barbara Blatnik is found face down on a rural road. She had been violently raped and strangled.
In 1988, Janet Tinsley reports her 8-year-old daughter April missing after she fails to return home. Three days later, a man discovers her in a ditch
On June 11th, 1963, a man fishing in Oregon reels in the body of a toddler. The child had been wrapped in blankets and weighed down by iron molds
Niles, Michigan 1987, Terry Wood comes home to find his wife Roxanne lying dead in a pool of blood.
2001, Greeley, Colorado, a 7-year-old girl is walking to school with her 8-year-old brother when an unknown assailant snatches her off the street and bundles her into his car.
Fort Worth Texas 1974, 17-year old Carla Walker is kissing her boyfriend Rodney in his car when suddenly the door is ripped open by an unknown assailant.
High school student Kim Bryant is last seen outside a Dairy Queen restaurant. Three weeks later, her body is discovered by three teenage boys hiking on the outskirts of town.
On the morning of September 4th, 1981, mom of two Linda Slaten was found murdered in her bedroom in her Lakeland Florida apartment.
December 30th, 1983, 22-year-old Diana Hanson fails to return home from jogging in Las Vegas.
December 30th, 1983, 22-year-old Diana Hanson fails to return home from jogging in Las Vegas.
The body of a little girl is found in the Arizona desert. Detectives are unable to identify her so the local community lays her to rest with the name “Little Miss Nobody”.
Arapahoe County, Colorado, 1983, the body of Sylvia Quayle is discovered by distraught her father in her Cherry Hills home.
Florida Keys, 1991, a young woman is last seen alive hitchhiking on Valentine’s Day. The next day her body is discovered along a deserted road;
Tacoma, Washington State, 1986, 12-year-old Michella Welch goes missing in Puget Park.
Sanford, Florida, 1984, the bruised and bloodied body of 25-year-old naval recruit Pamela Cahanes is found in an abandoned lot near the Naval Training Center.
San Diego, 1969, 23-year-old Mary Scott is visited by a friend when she fails to show up for work
Las Vegas, Nevada, June 1st, 1989, Stephanie Isaacson sets off on her morning walk to school; she never makes it.
Pensacola, Florida, New Year’s Day, 1985, the body of Tonya McKinley is found lying on the side of a city street.
Colorado Springs, Colorado, St. Patrick’s Day, 1987, the naked body of Darlene Krashoc is discovered by two patrol officers at 5.20am behind a restaurant.
A 17-year old girl arrives home in McCleary Washington and honks her car-horn. Her dad finds her distraught with duct tape around her mouth and her feet zip tied together.
December 5th 1982, deputies from Jackson County Sheriff’s Department discover the body of a female toddler along the Escatawpa River in Mississippi.
March 6th, 1959, 9-year-old Candy Rogers leaves home to sell girl scout mints in Spokane Washington, she never returns.
October 9th, 1980, Santee, San Diego, the neighbors of 20 year old college student Michelle Wyatt hear screams coming from her condo but fail to investigate.
For 15 years, northern California is haunted by a serial rapist until genetic genealogy finally reveals the identity of the elusive sexual predator.
A man discovers the body of a young woman in a ditch in Kentucky. The girl is identified as 16-year-old Carol Sue Klaber who was last seen riding her bike
In 1987, the brutalized body of a New Mexico woman is discovered inside her apartment; decades later, investigators hope genetic genealogy can finally catch the killer.
In 2003, the skeletal remains of a young woman are found.
When the body of a young woman is discovered in 1970, her family never loses hope that one day her killer will be identified; after 52 years, genetic genealogy provides the truth.
Dade County police in Georgia work to uncover the identity of a Jane Doe and locate the perpetrator responsible for her murder.
In 1968, the remains of an unidentified woman are discovered; detectives work for nearly half a century to identify the Jane Doe and the murderer who evaded law enforcement for 50 years.
In 1964, the body of a young girl is discovered in Hazleton, Pa.; the community lives in fear that a child predator is hiding in plain sight; over 50 years later, the truth is finally revealed.
Two unsolved murders from the late 1970s near Tahoe, Calif., stump investigators for decades.
A stabbing in Sacramento
Cutting-edge DNA science finally names the Phoenix Canal Killer who terrorized the city in the early 90s.
Investigative genetic genealogy is used to resolve the 1988 murder of a mother killed in front of her toddler.
Investigative genetic genealogy reveals the killer of a young mother murdered in her own home 34 years prior.
Forensic science reveals the name of a sadistic killer who murdered two women in the late 80s.
A man who raped two women in 1990 is put behind bars thirty years later thanks to advancements in science.
DNA science unveils a predator who sexually assaulted a 20-year-old before shooting her in Washington in 1972.
In 2022, investigative genetic genealogy exposes a killer who stabbed a woman to death in her home in 1980.
A woman who was sexually assaulted at gunpoint in the 1980s contacts a genetic genealogist to solve her case.
Investigative genetic genealogy unmasks the sexual deviant who raped and killed Christina Castiglione in 1983
The 1972 rape and murder of 9-year-old Debbie Lynn Randall is solved thanks to new science 50 years later.
In this compelling episode, detectives take on the unsolved murder of Sharon Hammack.
Police use new technology to find out who is responsible for a brutal rape.
DNA Detectives work to solve a murder of a great-grandma in Utah.
Forensic investigative genetic genealogy solves the 1987 double murder of a young couple in Wisconsin.
Police solve the decades-old cold case of Clare Holman through new advancements in DNA technology.
In 1976, 19-year-old Janet Stallcup goes missing while on her way to a party. Eight days later, her body is found in her car.
In 1978, the body of 16-year-old Krisann Baxter is found in Washington. Investigators try to find Krisann's killer, but don't find any answers.
In 1989 20-year-old Krista Martin’s life is tragically cut short when an intruder interrupts her dinner, leading to an investigation spanning four decades.
In Chandler, Arizona in 1991, an intruder viciously sexually assaults a woman in her own home. The case goes unsolved for decades until revolutionary science connects the dots.
In 1995 in Beaumont, Texas, the parents of Catherine Edwards find her body in her bathroom. The killer evades justice, that is, until forensic science catches up with him.
Will a new forensic science tool find the killer of Cathy Sposito, murdered on an Arizona hiking trail in 1987?
Susan Eads is found murdered in Texas in 1983. Decades later, can modern forensics finally find the perpetrator?
In 1986, Barbara Carr was killed in a home invasion, while her husband escaped. Will new science finally unearth a suspect?
Years after a murder in 1991, will determination and new forensic tools finally find Danielle Clause's killer?
Human remains found in 1994 start a long search to identify Suzanne Kjellenberg and a killer. New forensics may give answers.
In 1986, police struggle to find a young mother's killer; years later, can genetic genealogy provide answers?
Years after a mother is murdered, cutting-edge forensics provide long-awaited answers.
Serial rapes spur fear in a city in North Carolina. Years later new forensic science finds the perpetrator.
Can the groundbreaking tool of investigative genetic genealogy solve the 1993 murder of Melissa Lee?
A woman is killed and left in an old cellar; can investigative genetic genealogy help identify the killer?
In 2024, Pamela Wittman, a 25-year-old from Indiana, was identified, solving the 1980 Daytona Beach cold case linked to a serial killer.
Found shot near Highway 67 in 1986, Maria Pilar Del Gadillo Carrillo remained unidentified until 2024, when authorities used genetic genealogy and reopened her case.
Esther Gonzalez was killed in 1979 while walking in Riverside. Randy Williamson, cleared by polygraph, lived freely until 2014. In 2023, forensic genealogy closed the cold case.
In 1991, 16-year-old Sarah Yarborough was murdered outside her school. Eyewitnesses saw a man - but it took nearly 30 years and forensic genealogy to find him.
DNA and genealogy reveal serial killer Jerry McFadden murdered Anna Hlavka in a 1979 Portland case.
Found murdered in a Seattle garage in July 1967, Susan Galvin remained without justice until 2018, when DNA and genetic genealogy identified her killer, Frank Wypych.
In October 2003, the San Diego County community was shaken by a tragic discovery: the dismembered legs of a woman were found in a dumpster.
In 1985, student Terri McAdams was beaten and killed by an intruder who entered the apartment she was staying in. In 2024, genetic genealogy finally caught Terri's killer.
