Detective Chris Hall

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Somebody Knows Something · S3E8: Family Trees · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

And I know what people might be thinking.

This case is over 40 years old.

And if you did have fingerprints, would you even have prints to compare to for an unidentified body?

Well, as it turns out, the answer could be yes.

When unidentified bodies were recovered, even back in the 1980s, prints were often rolled in ink by the agency that located them or by a coroner's office.

So it is theoretically possible that we could use fingerprints on some remains, but certainly not all of them.

Yes, it's really unfortunate that we don't have them.

And after all, dental records can be more useful in cold cases because, like you said, Andrew, we often are looking at skeletal remains that have been recovered years or even decades after the person has died.

So if there are dental records, we can make comparisons in cases like that pretty quickly.

But sadly, we just don't have them in this case, at least for not yet.

We do know from the 2014 reports that Wyteria was reportedly missing her two front teeth.

So, there is some specific dental information there, but again, just because skeletal remains are found and are missing teeth, doesn't necessarily mean we can compare them to her.

In many cases, only a percentage of skeletal remains are recovered, so a set of skeletal remains that are missing front teeth doesn't mean that they were lost prior to death.

It is entirely possible that the teeth fell out after death and were simply not recovered.

There are, unfortunately, a few other factors that make obtaining DNA a challenge in this case as well.

Much of Witeria's family is spread across the country, and we have to find family members who are available and willing to meet with us to provide that DNA sample.

Yes, that's true.

And for us to use CODIS and to search NamUs, we need not one, but two standards from a close blood relative of Yteria.

And we need at least one of those standards to be a maternal relative.

So not every relative meets that criteria that we need.

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