FAMILY TREE FORENSICS
“GENETIC GENEALOGISTS THEN REVERSE-ENGINEERED A FAMILY TREE, JOINING THE DOTS BETWEEN THE CRIME SCENE DNA AND RELATIVES”
When she answers my call, Paula Armentrout is buzzing with the news that’s just come through. Her company’s DNA analysis and genetic genealogy service has just led to the arrest of a man for two murders that happened four years ago. It’s the 101st case of serious crime solved as result of genetic detective work by Parabon NanoLabs. The service was launched just two years ago, in May 2018.
The Cincinnati man who’s been arrested beat a mother and son to death in their home in 2016. He might have thought he’d got away with it, as at the time of the initial investigation, the DNA sample found at the crime scene matched nothing on the police databases. The case went cold.
But Virginia-based Parabon provided a new analysis of
