DNA commodification is no longer a future concern; it’s a present reality. Beyond charging users for their services, some ...
GEDmatch stands apart from companies such as 23andMe. It’s an open, crowdsourced database that anyone can search. Founded in 2010, it emerged as a tool for genealogy enthusiasts to upload DNA ...
Nearly three decades after an unidentified man was set on fire in a brutal 1996 attack in southeast Atlanta, officials have ...
When someone is murdered, they leave behind heartbroken families desperate for answers. As months, years, and decades pass, ...
Mary Schlias was hitchhiking from Minneapolis to Chicago when the then-25-year-old was picked up and stabbed to death. Her ...
After a 50-year long investigation, a suspect in the murder of Mary Schlais is arrested and in the Dunn County Jail.
The suspect’s DNA file is then uploaded to databases like GEDMatch, which is used by people who send in their genetic DNA ...
The investigation into the 1995 murder of Texas teacher Mary Catherine Edwards went cold for years. Advances in forensic science and tireless work by investigators would reveal the startling ...
(DNA Doe Project) Using online DNA databases like GEDmatch and FamilyTreeDNA, volunteer genealogists painstakingly pieced together family trees over months, eventually linking "Fulton County John ...