After almost a year, IGGAB has published a draft of the proposed standards for investigative genetic genealogy (IGG). The draft is available for public comment until May 30, 2023.
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In December 1988, 19-year-old Cathy Sue Swartz was murdered in the apartment that she shared with her fiancé and daughter. The daughter, who was 9-months-old, was found unharmed in her crib.
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Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan has announced that internationally recognized forensic science specialist Claire Glynn will join the office as a consultant.
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In November 2020 an unidentified woman was found outside of an abandoned residence located in Indianapolis, Indiana and taken to Community East Hospital via ambulance where she later died.
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In October 2022, an email tip to NamUs suggested investigators look at Paula Boudreaux’s case and that there may be a link to the unidentified remains from 1989.
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Despite the 400+ miles separating the crime scenes, investigators have linked a now-51-year-old man to both of the crimes through DNA and investigative genetic genealogy.
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On August 16, 1975, the body of a deceased female, found bound, gagged, and wrapped in a tarp was discovered in a drainage ditch in East Haven, Conn.
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In February 2021, the case was entered into NamUs as UP77898. With few leads to go on, the case soon went cold.
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An autopsy revealed the most striking aspect of injury was blunt force trauma but, due to the body's state of decomposition, a majority of the soft tissue was gone.
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Detectives learned Michael Ruff Wigley was investigated in the early 1980’s for two separate incidents of sexual assault cases in central Texas.
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