203. How Ancestry Websites Solved a Cold Case

In this episode, Payton and Garrett dive into the case of two women who were murdered 100 miles apart. When police can’t identify the women, they turn to an emergent technology to help solve this cold case.

Case Sources:

“Web of Death” Season One, Episode Four

“Cold Case Files” Season Two, Episode 26

NationalObserver.com - https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/05/27/news/cree-womans-remains-sent-home-alberta-decades-disappearance

KTLA.com - https://ktla.com/news/local-news/photos-released-in-effort-to-id-victims-in-1980-cold-case-warning-graphic-images/

ForensicMag.com - https://www.forensicmag.com/575436-Shirley-Ann-Soosay-is-One-of-First-Indigenous-Peoples-Does-to-be-ID-ed-by-Genetic-Genealogy/

AETV.com - https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/indigenous-murder-victim-identified

ScientificAmerican.com - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-dna-tests-are-identifying-missing-persons-and-solving-crimes/

VCDistrictAttorney.com - 

https://www.vcdistrictattorney.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/18-069-Chouest-Barrick.pdf

StoriesOfTheUnsolved.com - https://storiesoftheunsolved.com/2021/08/12/ventura-county-jane-doe/#:~:text=CASE%20CONTACT%20INFORMATION%3A,or%20805%2D654%2D9511

TheCinemaholic.com - https://thecinemaholic.com/shirley-soosay-murder-how-did-she-die-who-killed-her/

Bakersfield.com - https://www.bakersfield.com/news/kcso-identifies-murder-victim-from-1980-cold-case/article_07eda476-a472-11eb-9eaf-238b5f2ff629.html

VCStar.com - https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/communities/conejo-valley/2018/05/31/man-found-guilty-murder-1980-ventura-kern-county-slayings/661081002/

KernGoldenEmpire.com- 

http://www.kerngoldenempire.com/news/authorites-identify-suspect-in-decades-old-cold-case-murders-of-two-women

Wikipedia.com - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Shirley_Soosay

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