Cece Moore

And I think, you know,

John's getting older as he keeps pointing out and now is the time, but I do understand their hesitation.

It is risky.

Yes.

And so that's one thing that's interesting about Parabon is they were doing this phenotyping before genetic genealogy was a thing for law enforcement.

And the files that they created for that are exactly the files that we use for genetic genealogy, which is why when I joined forces with them, I had about 100 cases right off the bat because they had already created those files.

They'd already gone through the lab process.

And all we had to do was get permission to upload those to GEDmatch.

And so, yes, it absolutely has the same information in there that you would need to predict eye color, hair color, ancestry.

It is a really powerful amount of information.

I think that was pretty good.

That was before I was part of the company, but I think you're right.

I do remember seeing that on their site.

Well, Lancaster Police had worked with Parabon before I even joined forces with them to create this investigative genetic genealogy service.

So they had an established relationship with them.

So when I came on board, they asked Lancaster Police if we could perform genetic genealogy first on the Christy Murak case, which they had done a phenotype for.

And so we uploaded that to GEDmatch.

And on that case, right away, we had good matches for me to work with.

Now, when I became really familiar with that case, I learned that Christy's brother and Lindy Sue's brother had taken out billboards together asking for tips on their sisters.

And so I was able to help law enforcement solve Christy Murak's case way back in 2018.