Cece Moore

Just backtracking a little, I don't know if you remember, but you asked me almost five years ago what case I'd like to work.

And I mentioned Jean Benet.

And I have received emails or messages on social media every single day since that time asking me to work this case.

I certainly would love to have the opportunity to do so, but I doubt very much that they would let me work it.

I would expect maybe the FBI will work it if anyone is allowed to do so.

As far as the risks...

yeah, once you use up that DNA, that's the end.

So you have to make sure that it's being sent to a well-tested team, a lab that has been able to create profiles, genetic genealogy profiles from tiny amounts of degraded DNA, and that has scientists that are really highly skilled at working with that degraded DNA.

We can assume it's degraded after all these years.

With touch DNA,

which I think that's what this is in this case, my understanding.

Again, you just have a tiny bit of skin cells and it can be very quickly consumed.

So I understand Boulder Police's hesitation to use up that last little bit because you never know what's coming around the corner.

Nobody predicted investigative genetic genealogy outside of our little community.

And so I always...

I'm hesitant to second guess law enforcement.

I've been involved in some pretty high profile cases where people were out there criticizing law enforcement and had no idea what was going on behind the scenes.

And I wasn't able to-

Yeah, just like Idaho.

That's exactly right.