Bloodline Detectives

In 1999, hospital worker Jennifer Watkins is sexually assaulted and murdered; 20 years later, revolutionary DNA testing helps to solve the cold case.

In Sacramento, Calif., three woman are brutally assaulted by the same man; investigators use genealogy to track down the suspect.

A young couple is murdered in Montana in 1956; in 2019, investigators use voluntary genealogical databases to catch the killer.

In 2018, a 79-year-old woman in Utah is sexually assaulted after a man breaks into her home; genetic genealogy immediately identifies the rapist.

In 1993, a 19-year-old woman is kidnapped and raped; a private forensic genealogy company is able to track down the suspect.

In 1997, a woman is attacked on her route home; a suspect is arrested over 20 years later with the help of a genetic genealogical search.

In 1974, a 5-year-old girl disappears while walking to her friend's house; after 46 years, detectives are able to put the case to rest using modern DNA technology.

Ricky Davis was convicted of the 1985 murder of a woman, but always maintained his innocence. It took 18 years before re-examined DNA evidence proved him right.

When a woman takes a genealogy test to learn what happened to her estranged mother, she is shocked to learn that her DNA has helped law enforcement identify two bodies found in California's Mojave Desert in 1980, which remained a mystery for over 40 years.

On 24th December 1984, a body is discovered in a shallow grave. When another dead body is discovered police fear a serial killer is at work. The victims remained unidentified for decades before a new DNA technology gave them justice.

In 1981, a high school student is found dead on the side of a road. Police work tirelessly on the case until new DNA technology exposes the killer.

In 1995, a masked man commits a series of sexual assaults at knifepoint. It takes more than 20 years for this serial rapist to be identified and then brought to justice.

In Alexandria, Virginia in 2016 a young female lifeguard is raped while working at a local pool. Police learn of a similar incident in Fairfax, Virginia 2 years earlier. It takes ground-breaking genealogy tools to find the perpetrator.

In 1977, the body of a young woman is found covered in flies and maggots. Police officers fail to identify the victim until revolutionary technology breaks open the case.

In 1968, a 60-year-old is brutally raped and killed inside her own home. A devastating flood halts the police investigation until ground-breaking science offers new hope.

In 1998, a woman and her young daughter are found brutally murdered. The case goes cold for over a decade until genetic genealogy uncovers the perpetrator.

In 1976, a young woman is found dead at a military base in Orange County, California. Using forensic genealogy, experts break open the 40-year-old cold case.

In December 1987, the body of a girl was dumped on the side of a road in Ohio. Genetic genealogy is called upon to help solve this violent murder.

In 1988, Janet Tinsley reports her 8-year-old daughter April missing after she fails to return home. Three days later, a man out jogging makes a gruesome discovery in a nearby ditch.

On June 11th, 1963, a man fishing in the Keene Creek reservoir in Ashland County, Oregon, reels in the body of a toddler. The child had been wrapped in blankets and weighed down by iron molds. After nearly six decades, developments in technology provide a major break in the case.