Authorities use genetic genealogy to investigate the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, echoing techniques from the Idaho student murders case.

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TUCSON, Ariz. — A Q-tip, a tissue and a pizza crust. To investigators, this seemingly innocuous trash was DNA-laden treasure, helping crack the cases of the University of Idaho murders, the Golden ...

Last year, Erin Deborah Waks took a swab test that would shed light on her family's lost heritage - and then took her ...

Genetic genealogy – the forensic tool behind hundreds of long‑stalled case breakthroughs, including the 2016 slaying of a New Jersey man found shot and dumped on a Brandywine Hundred neighborhood ...

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Feb. 19 (UPI) --Law enforcement said they're considering using genetic genealogy to test the DNA found at the Arizona home of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show co-host Savannah ...