Bloodline Detectives

For 15 years, northern California is haunted by a serial rapist until genetic genealogy finally reveals the identity of the elusive sexual predator.

A man discovers the body of a young woman in a ditch in Kentucky. The girl is identified as 16-year-old Carol Sue Klaber who was last seen riding her bike

In 1987, the brutalized body of a New Mexico woman is discovered inside her apartment; decades later, investigators hope genetic genealogy can finally catch the killer.

In 2003, the skeletal remains of a young woman are found.

When the body of a young woman is discovered in 1970, her family never loses hope that one day her killer will be identified; after 52 years, genetic genealogy provides the truth.

Dade County police in Georgia work to uncover the identity of a Jane Doe and locate the perpetrator responsible for her murder.

In 1968, the remains of an unidentified woman are discovered; detectives work for nearly half a century to identify the Jane Doe and the murderer who evaded law enforcement for 50 years.

In 1964, the body of a young girl is discovered in Hazleton, Pa.; the community lives in fear that a child predator is hiding in plain sight; over 50 years later, the truth is finally revealed.

Two unsolved murders from the late 1970s near Tahoe, Calif., stump investigators for decades.

A stabbing in Sacramento

Cutting-edge DNA science finally names the Phoenix Canal Killer who terrorized the city in the early 90s.

Investigative genetic genealogy is used to resolve the 1988 murder of a mother killed in front of her toddler.

Investigative genetic genealogy reveals the killer of a young mother murdered in her own home 34 years prior.

Forensic science reveals the name of a sadistic killer who murdered two women in the late 80s.

A man who raped two women in 1990 is put behind bars thirty years later thanks to advancements in science.

DNA science unveils a predator who sexually assaulted a 20-year-old before shooting her in Washington in 1972.

In 2022, investigative genetic genealogy exposes a killer who stabbed a woman to death in her home in 1980.

A woman who was sexually assaulted at gunpoint in the 1980s contacts a genetic genealogist to solve her case.

Investigative genetic genealogy unmasks the sexual deviant who raped and killed Christina Castiglione in 1983

The 1972 rape and murder of 9-year-old Debbie Lynn Randall is solved thanks to new science 50 years later.