
Detectives and forensic experts recount the most extraordinary cold cases that were solved using the revolutionary technique of familial DNA testing.
In Alexandria, Va., in 2016, a young female lifeguard is raped while working at a local pool; police soon learn of a similar incident in Fairfax.
On June 11, 1963, a man fishing in Oregon reels in the body of a toddler; the child had been wrapped in blankets and weighed down by iron molds.
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.
In Ohio in December 1987, the nude body of 17-year-old Barbara Blatnik is found face down on a rural road; she had been raped and strangled.