Genealogists Turn to Cousins’ DNA and Family Trees to Crack Five More Cold Cases


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The suspect: Raymond “D.J. Freez” Rowe, 49, was arrested on Monday. He has been working as a D.J. in Pennsylvania — and briefly in Southern Chile — since the late 1980s. These days, he not only performs at about 150 parties and events a year, he runs a D.J. academy, according to his website.


Raymond “D.J. Freez” RoweCreditLancaster County Dist. Attorney, via Associated Press

The path from cousins to suspect: Parabon is not saying which relatives provided the initial match, only that GEDMatch was critical yet again.


Once the building of the family tree — and other research — turned Mr. Rowe into a person of interest, police collected DNA from a piece of chewing gum and a water bottle at a party where he was D.J.’ing. It matched the genetic profile extracted from semen at the scene of the murder and Mr. Rowewas arrested, startling his community.


A lead in the 1981 murder of a Texas realtor


The victim: In December 1981, Virginia Freeman, a 40-year-old realtor in Brazos County, Tex., went to meet a potential buyer. She was later found strangled and stabbed.


Development: On Monday, the Brazos County sheriff announced that he believed James Otto Earhart, who was executed in 1999 for killing a 9-year-old girl, was responsible.


The path from cousins to suspect: Upon uploading crime scene DNA to GEDMatch, Ms. Moore identified twosecond cousins and two third cousins once removed.By building a family tree back to their great-grandparents, and then filling in the branches, Ms. Moore came up with a list of relatives to research further.


James Otto EarhartCreditvia Associated Press

Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/gord-downie-death-political-reaction-1.4359917?cmp=rss

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