Cece Moore

It was one of my very first ones.

But I felt like Lindy Sue's case was hanging over my head for years because I really felt that...

they both needed to be solved.

They were sort of like sister cases to me, even though they were so many years apart.

And I wanted Lindy Sue's family and brother to have those answers as well, like Christie's family finally did.

But when we performed the analysis on that crime scene DNA and uploaded it to GEDmatch, there were no good matches.

They were all very, very, very distant.

So we recommended they upload to Family Tree DNA as well, the second database.

Again, no good matches.

And I was just so disappointed because I so desperately wanted to help law enforcement identify her killer as well.

Well, because we didn't have any close matches.

So the closest match we had only shared 30 centimorgans.

30 centimorgans can be a false match even.

That's so distant.

It could be a 10th cousin.

But I was determined to try to help on this case.

So just behind the scenes, without even telling the law enforcement agency I was doing it, I started building trees of these really distant matches.

And instead of going back into the 1600s, and I didn't expect I'd find common ancestors because of the distance.

But I did find that they were all converging on this small town in southern Italy.

And so that was really interesting to me because it was clear that the person who left their DNA behind on Lindy Sue, so her killer, her alleged killer at this point, had...