Cece Moore

And so there was a rape from 1997 where the kit had not been processed.

Once that was processed, they were in for a big surprise.

When law enforcement runs out of all of their avenues of investigation, investigative genetic genealogy can step in and help solve it.

Well, the good news about the Memphis crime being tied to the others is there was an abundant amount of DNA to work with from that rape kit.

They take this degraded old DNA and they help to make it viable for genetic genealogy so I can do my job.

So from the DNA that Parabon was able to develop, CeCe Moore was able to create this family tree.

A lot of times I'm lucky and I'm able to narrow it down to just one immediate family, one candidate or a set of siblings.

But in this case, there were quite a few cousins who could potentially be our DNA contributor.

So I started looking at each of them.

And this one person had a history that made me really sit up and take notice.

That this had to be the guy.

When I saw this man, I immediately recognized him from the sketches.

I zeroed in on a man named Robert Brashears.

When I started digging into him, I very quickly found a newspaper article that he was charged and convicted of a violent crime in Florida in 1985.

He had attacked a woman, shot her, attempted sexual assault, but she had gotten away.

And so I started digging further on him.

I was looking at one of Robert Brashear's daughter's Facebook pages.

And on that page was a picture that really jumped out at me.

And it didn't have any labels, but he was wearing what looked like the exact same hat.

Look at that.