An interesting WSJ opinion article of February 15, 2019 briefly recaps the work of some of the persons involved in private forensic use of DNA databases to track down people for family reasons, to solve “cold cases” or for other reasons. One paragraph explains:
“In June police arrested a 49-year-old suspect, Raymond Rowe, a local disc jockey known as “DJ Freez.” They found him with the help of Parabon NanoLabs, a Reston, Va.-based forensic DNA company. “There was well over 1,000 people investigated for Christy’s murder, and Raymond Rowe was never on that list,” CeCe Moore, who heads Parabon’s genetic-genealogy lab, tells me. Ms. Moore, 50, has used a combination of modern genetic technology and old-fashioned family trees to help law enforcement track down criminals long on the lam.”