Kendahl Landreth

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4,881 appearances 12 recordings 6 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 2 Sep

Kendahl Landreth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder · Ep. 127 | Cold Cases Solved DECADES Later · 2 Sep 2026 podcast

They take the strongest matches and construct family trees out of genealogical records, working out how each of those people might be related to the person nobody can name. matched

And what they're looking for is a family with somebody in it who went missing. matched

And once there's a name to test, police collect DNA from a living relative and matched

Compare the two directly one to one. matched

So the DNA Doe Project was founded in 2017 in Sebastopol, California, as a nonprofit setup to do one thing: give John and Jane Doe's their names back using genetic genealogy. matched

Now, co-founder Margaret Press, PhD, was a writer and genealogist, and co-founder Colleen Fitzpatrick, PhD, was a retired nuclear physicist. matched

Who had moved into forensic genealogy. matched

And this project uses genetic genealogy to help law enforcement solve crimes. matched

So they took their first case in September of 2017 and incorporated the month after. matched

And the work itself was done by volunteers. matched

So the Buckskin Girl case reached them by chance at a conference. matched

And Fitzpatrick was giving a talk on forensic genealogy at the 2017 American Academy of Forensics. matched

Forensic scientists meeting, and Dr. matched

Elizabeth Murray, who had been carrying the Miami County file since 2010, was actually just in the room and she didn't wait for the talk to end. matched

She wrote to Fitzpatrick from her seat, saying, quote, I have the cases if you have the methodology. matched

And Murray said, We had all the other stuff. matched

Why not try this? matched

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But there was still a problem. matched

The only sample in existence was matched

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