Cece Moore

Normally, I can connect my person of interest to multiple matches through common ancestors.

But I couldn't connect any of these people directly to his family tree, just to that hometown of Gasparina.

So it was really nerve wracking.

But I still felt like it was a good enough lead to pass it on.

And so we reached out to Lancaster police and let them know that I'd been working on this, which they weren't even aware of, and set up a meeting.

And I shared his name with them.

At that point, it's just a tip.

It's a lead generator.

No one's going to get arrested based on what I say.

So they have to perform their full investigation on this individual, just like they would have had to do on Brian Kohlberger if that's how he was identified.

This is not evidence that's going to be used against anyone in a court of law.

So they started looking into this individual and they eventually identified.

selected surreptitious DNA, just like they did in the Idaho case, and they tested that against their original court-admissible genetic profile.

That's the one that is used for evidence.

They can't arrest somebody until they've done that or gotten a close family member, like they did with Brian's father.

In this case, they got DNA directly from

the suspect or the person of interest.

And he became a suspect because they got that one-to-one exact match, which when they told me was huge because this was a novel technique that I had just created.

And there was, you know, it was nerve wracking.

If I can't even connect one match to someone's family tree, I feel very hesitant to point them out to law enforcement.