18-year-old Jeannie Moore’s 1981 murder was finally solved after 38 YEARS when cold case detective used databases on Family Tree DNA to identify the killer. Moore was raped and murdered in Colorado in 1981.
Despite widespread media coverage and the fact that investigators retrieved a semen sample from the perpetrator, the case remained unsolved for 38 years. In May of this year, a cold case detective decided to send to the killer’s DNA sample to a genetic genealogy website in the hopes of finding a match. It was revealed that a relative of the murderer had uploaded their DNA to Family Tree DNA – with cops then working backwards to determine the killer’s identity as Donald Steven Perea, who died in May 2012 at age 54.
Read the article at the September 17, 2019 posting at DailyMail.co.uk.
