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fig out who our doe is. what if this is your family. you want to give them closure >> to us homicide detectives, it's way above our heads. >> i said, i think i know how we can do it. >> all of these people share some amount of dna with our unknown person. >> we thought, this is the family. this is it. >> surreal. it felt like somebody had just punched me in the stomach. >> it's a funny thing, isn't it? that it would be important to have a stone with your name on it. >> it is. it's written in stone. you're never forgotten. hello and welcome to "dateline." in many cold cases, the vic...

Police reopen a crime scene where an unidentified man's remains were found earlier this month.

Narrator in the spring of 2018, the suspected golden State Killer was finally arrested, accused in a Crime Spree that had terrorized california for almost a generation. What ultimately brought him to justice was a new type of forensic technology. The golden State Killer suspect was arrested thanks to Genetic Genealogy. Narrator Genetic Genealogy is an offshoot of the Consumer Genomics Boom that started in 2013, when people began using dna and the web to explore their family histories. The purpose of traditional Genetic Genealogy is to identify our longdead ancestors. Narrator and it turns out ...

Forensic genealogists solve a 21-year-old case, linking a jawbone to a U.S. Marine captain who died more than 70 years ago in Orange County.

A convergence of trends in assessing the future risk of reoffending could result in morally questionable inputs into the criminal process. Advances in the analysis of DNA and increases in the availability of information about people gleaned from social media might allow for new inferences to be drawn against offenders during the sentencing process. We explore how developments in forensic DNA analysis methods and law enforcement DNA databases in conjunction with information about an offender's developmental environment could lead the prosecution to postulate a high risk of recidivism and t...