Seattle police said Tuesday they have solved a murder from nearly 52 years ago with the help of DNA and a family tree — a method that has revolutionized cold-case investigations across the U.S. in the past year. Last summer, Seattle police provided the killer's DNA to Parabon NanoLabs in Reston, Virginia. Seattle police exhumed his remains from a cemetery earlier this year to collect DNA and confirmed it matched that extracted from Galvin's clothing in 2002. "It's the oldest case where genetic genealogy has helped to identify the suspect," Moore said Tuesday. Privacy advocates, including the American Civil Liberties Union, have expressed concern over the use of public DNA databases in police investigations.

Source: Fox News May 07, 2019 22:20 UTC