Thanks, I see that one was through familial DNA #2 from your list to be added to Niner's familial DNA list.
5 Big Cold Cases That Had Major Breaks in 2017
#1
Suzanne Bombardier
DNA was matched using the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System in 2017
CA - Suzanne Bombardier, 14, abducted & murdered, Antioch, 22 June 1980 *Arrest*
#2
Bree’Anna Guzman and Michelle Lozano
Los Angeles Police Department used a controversial type of DNA testing called familial DNA to allegedly connect a Torrance, California man named Geovanni Borjas with the crimes.
"In April 2011, the body of 17-year-old Michelle Lozano was found on the Golden State Freeway in California. She was naked, wrapped in plastic bags and had been stuffed in a plastic container. Her body was found just one day after she was last seen in front of her high school.
The following year, another young woman, Bree’Anna Guzman, 22, disappeared as she walked to Rite Aid for cough medicine. She lived less than a mile from Lozano; her body, too, was later found on the side of a highway.
Six years after the bodies were found, police got a DNA match on a sample they’d secretly collected when a suspect spit on the sidewalk. It was a stunning break in a case that had been cold for years, and the Los Angeles Police Department used a controversial type of DNA testing called familial DNA to allegedly connect a Torrance, California man named Geovanni Borjas with the crimes.
“With a familial search, we [scour] our criminal database for a relation to a person,” explains Giacalone. In other words, officials search their databases for relatives of the perpetrator, who share similar DNA because they’re related.
“It’s controversial because you’re targeting people that may not have done anything wrong,” Giacalone says. Still, he says he considers it “the greatest tool in cold cases since the discovery of DNA.”
Though familial DNA searches are still not widely used, the state of California has solved a number of crimes using this system, including the high-profile Grim Sleeper case.
In May, Borjas was charged with two counts each of murder and forcible rape and one count of kidnapping. He could receive the death penalty if convicted. He has not yet been tried."
CA - Michelle Lozano, 17, & Bree'Anna Guzman, 22, Los Angeles, 2011 *Arrest*
#3
Janie Landers
The officer ran Landers’ bloody shirt through the FBI’s DNA database again, and this time there was a hit. The match? A convicted rapist named Gerald Dunlap who had reportedly worked in the laundry room at the facility where Landers had lived.
No WS thread I could find from this 1978 case
#4
Teresa Broudreaux
In 2013, officials ran DNA from the scene through the database again. This time they got a match, but it wasn’t until 2017 that they had sufficient evidence to charge Robert Yniguez, 65.
CA - Teresa Broudreaux, 20, pregnant, murdered, Palos Verdes Estates, 4 March 1980
#5
Freddie Farah
Miller’s palm print—left on food items near the convenience store counter—matched a profile found in the FBI’s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS).
No WS thread that I could find.