The latest crime case solved by Parabon NanoLabs was reported in the news recently, a 12+ year-old West Coast cold case:
And back in Sept. 2018, Parabon reported that it had solved 10 cases in the first 100 days of employing its “genetic genealogy” (ave. = 1 case every 10 days):
Although most cases are 10-20+ years-old, a few have been more recent (under 5 yrs. old).
By the end of 2018, Parabon had helped identify suspects in over 30 cases. Speed and efficiency of their techniques are ramping up, as would be expected, and the company writes at one point that they have “come to expect a successful identification nearly every week.” Seems likely we can expect 50 or more suspects (perhaps over 100) to be pinpointed in 2019, from the 100s of unsolved cases they are working on.
The difficult part of “genetic genealogy” is not the laboratory part of finding relatives to a perpetrator, but the more painstaking, manual detective/search work of deducing, from all possible relatives, which may actually track back to an individual who is a good fit for the known facts of the crime.
Chapel Hill Police have long said they have an abundance of evidence in Faith’s case, they just need a DNA match to tie it all to. It’s increasingly hard to imagine that by the end of this year they won’t have that match… and a lot of rampant speculation can be brought to an end.
------------------------------ADDENDUM: another 20-yr-old unsolved case, right up the road from Chapel Hill in Mebane, NC., was recently closed using genetic genealogy when a 10-yr.-old victim was finally identified:
https://abc11.com/family-had-no-idea-10-year-old-boy-mom-had-been-dead-since-1998/5121007/
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