Detective Chris Hall
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Once you do that, you can upload the same profile to GEDmatch, where police can use it to help try to solve cold cases.
Since 2018, over 1,000 cases have been solved thanks to people who have uploaded their genealogical data to GEDmatch and chosen to be a genetic witness.
That testimonial is truly powerful.
And we should add that becoming a genetic witness also helps exonerate innocent people as well, which is something that is really important.
For example,
On June 13, 1996, 18-year-old Angie Dodge was murdered in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
A man named Christopher Tapp was later charged in her case and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
But through a series of appeals and work with the Innocence Project, Tapp was released.
Tapp and one of his biggest advocates, Angie's own mother, Carol, began working with JetMatch to prove his innocence and to identify the real killer in Angie's case.
In 2019, using the genetic witness program, Brian Dripps was identified as the man who raped and murdered Angie in 1996, and he later confessed and was convicted in that case.
So this technology and the willingness of strangers to include their DNA data in the GEDmatch system helped to not only identify and charge a man who raped and murdered a woman, but it also helped totally exonerate a man who had spent the last 20 years of his life in prison for a crime that he did not commit.
As for our case, we still need DNA from Whiteria.
And we need to get it as soon as possible.
Because if we can't get DNA before those maternal lines end, we may never have the opportunity to identify and bring her home.
Plus, there is a waiting list to start NamUs searching.
So even if we do get the DNA, it will still take us time to begin our search.
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