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In 1985, seven years after her family last saw Marlyse, the remains of a woman and three children were found in two metal barrels in Bear Brook Park—victims who, more than thirty years later, I identified.This marked the first time in the history of U.S. law enforcement that autosomal DNA from rootless hair samples helped solve a crime–the first time genetic genealogy had to obtain the true identity of a criminal.

"In 2015 fewer than one million people in the United States had submitted samples for genetic testing to AncestryDNA. Today, that number is well over thirty million across all the U.S. genealogical sites."