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Investigators make arrest in hitchhiking woman’s death 50 years later
Mary Schlias was hitchhiking from Minneapolis to Chicago when the then-25-year-old was picked up and stabbed to death. Her ...
Nila Bala: The risks of sharing your DNA with online companies aren’t a future concern. They’re here now
DNA commodification is no longer a future concern; it’s a present reality. Beyond charging users for their services, some ...
KTVZ10d
A Las Vegas woman was found strangled to death in 1994. Decades later, a nonprofit group helped identify her killer
Melonie White was a young mother of a baby boy, a stylish lover of fashion and on an inspired search for a new career when her body was found strangled and lifeless. White was 27 years old when hikers ...
WISH-TV10d
A Las Vegas woman was found strangled to death in 1994. A nonprofit helped identify her killer
The suspect’s DNA file is then uploaded to databases like GEDMatch, which is used by people who send in their genetic DNA ...
FOX 5 Atlanta14d
'Fulton County John Doe' identified 28 years after body found doused in kerosene, set on fire
(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 ...
'Fulton County John Doe' identified 28 years after body found doused in kerosene, set on fire
Nearly three decades after an unidentified man was set on fire in a brutal 1996 attack in southeast Atlanta, officials have ...
28 years later, John Doe doused in kerosene, set on fire was missing Atlanta man
According to the DNA Doe Project, David Brown died after he was doused in kerosene and set on fire, blocks away from his Atlanta home in 1996. Brown was known as Fulton County John Doe and buried ...
Post and Courier19d
Guest column: Risks of sharing DNA with online companies aren’t a future concern. They’re here now
A class-action lawsuit filed in August alleges that the operator of GEDmatch.com, a genealogy site that claims to have a database of more than 1 million members, has been sharing users ...
AZ Central21d
'Peace in death': Slain Scottsdale grandmother identified after remains found in 1988
This profile was uploaded to the genetic databases GEDmatch Pro and FamilyTreeDNA, revealing partial matches that helped construct a family tree. Using traditional genealogy techniques and ...
Los Angeles Times25d
Opinion: The risks of sharing your DNA with online companies aren’t a future concern. They’re here now
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 ...