Boyce said detectives first spoke to Lewis on Thursday night, and he freely gave up a swab of his DNA. When she didn’t come back from the run, though, Phil Vetrano grew worried. “Her father began to call her several times on the phone,” Boyce told reporters then. After several hours searching in the woods alongside detectives, Phil Vetrano helped discover his daughter’s body in marshland, police said. “Could [familial DNA] have accelerated the investigation?” Boyce told reporters Sunday.

Source: Washington Post February 05, 2017 21:37 UTC