On the night of June 6, 2019, two teenage girls went outside to empty out their car before a significant thunderstorm was expected to hit the area. Once outside, they heard the unexpected—what sounded like a baby crying.
Forty-six years after her remains were found in Macon, Georgia, genetic genealogy has helped identified Yvonne Pless as one of the 93 victims of the U.S.’s most prolific serial killer, Samuel Little.
The woman in the well. The woman with the flower tattoo. The burned body in the forest. The body in the carpet. The woman by the motorway. These are just a few of the 22 unidentified woman.
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.
Despite the success of the technique, a new report says NGS is still in an early adoption phase—and adoption has been slow.