In July 2017, Nanette Krentel, the wife of a Louisiana fire chief, was found dead inside her home after a devastating house fire. Initially, the cops believed they had a suicide on their hands. But the more once fire investigators searched the burnt house, the more buzzling questioned they discovered. Photo Source: People Magazine Episode…

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, several women were sexually assaulted and murdered in a series of attacked along interstate highway 65. For decades, these attacks remained unsolved as investigators worked to piece together what information they had to identify the suspect. Once all the leads dried up, they turned to new DNA testing…

In July 2016, former NFL star Antonio Armstrong and his wife, Dawn, were gunned down inside their Texas home. The evidence collected from inside the house quickly led investigtaors to believe the shooter came from inside the home. Episode Sources: Houston Public Media JL Carpenter Law ABC 13 news Click2Houston article Click2Houston article 2 ABC…

In the early morning hours of February 4th, 2012, Troy and LaDonna French were gunned down inside their North Carolina home. The couple awoke to screams from their teenage daughter who said there was a man inside her room holding a knife to her throat. But before the gunman fled the home, he left a…

In April 1964, a one-day old infant, Paul Fronczak, was kidnapped from a Chicago, Illinois hospital by a woman disguised as a nurse. But decades later, Paul’s true identity came into question after his DNA was submitted to a commercial DNA website. Who is the real Paul Fronczak? Episode Sources: Foundling Paul website Article Chicago…

A court reporter is found stabbed to death inside her Sacramento apartment in 1970. With very few investigative leads, the case turns up and became one of Sacramento county’s oldest, unsolved homicides cases. Can advanced DNA testing and the use of forensic genetic genealogy help bring Nancy Bennallack’s killer to justice? Photo Source: The Daily…

In January 1959, nine experienced and young Russian hikers began an expedition in the Ural Mountains of the Soviet Union. The group was on their way to one of the mountain’s peaks, but they never made it. And the events that took place between January 25th, 1959 and February 1, 1959, would become one of…

Sixteen year old Carol Sue Klaber left her parent’s house in Boone County, Kentucky, on June 4, 1976, to go out with a friend after dropping her bike off. But after she left her parents house, she was never seen alive again. The hunt for her killer sent investigators on a four-decade long hunt. PHOTO…

In 1980 a young woman was found murdered inside her Sacramento, California, apartment. With very few investigative leads, the case quickly turned cold despite having her killer’s DNA. Episode Sources: Newsbreak CBS News Kiro 7 Robin Brooks Foundation ABC 10 Article 1 ABC 10 Article 2 Oxygen ABC 10 Article 3

The identity of a man dressed in a suit found dead on Australia’s Somerton beach has baffled investigators for over 70 years. Can the use of genetic genealogy finally identify him?