
Investigative Genetic Genealogy w/ Barbara Rae-Venter
Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria
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How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer
How an amateur DNA sleuth unmasked the Golden State Killer and changed crime fighting forever. Was it towards the beginning of the work that you were doing? Did this like you consider yourself an amateur because you kind of started on your own, right? Yeah. One of the reviews, and I'm not remembering which one it was, made some snide comment about that and said it was good marketing on the part of Penguin Random House that I was hardly an amateur. And so next thing I know I'm getting a phone call from Paul Holes wanting to know if I'll help him on one of his cold cases. And of course that cold case turned out to be the Golden State
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