DNA Finders

09/29/2025

In case you missed it, here is the zoom link to NYS Cold Case Day 2025!

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09/19/2025

2nd Annual Cold Case Day is coming--let's move cases forward!
Join us virtually or in-person on 9/26 @ 4pm at Siena University's Roger Bacon Auditorium. https://www.siena.edu/visit/campus-map/
Register here for a seat or a link to join virtually!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nys-cold-case-day-2025-tickets-1709034681739?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join us in-person or online for a meaningful discussion about moving cold cases forward.

09/26/2024

Tonight! Please join us!

01/04/2024

Late notice (sorry!) but there will be a Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy training tomorrow, Friday, January 5 @ 1pm Eastern. Cost is $50pp.
Register here: [email protected]
Pay here: paypal.me/dnafinders

02/26/2023

If you are local to the NY Capital Region, please join us this Thursday, March 2 at 5pm for a tribute to the 25th anniversary of the disappearance of Suzanne Gloria Lyall. As dusk falls at The Factory in Ballston Spa (Prospect St. & Milton Ave.), the bell will toll 25 times in honor of each year since her abduction.

01/22/2023

Girl asks police to run DNA test on Christmas cookie for evidence of Santa Claus

A young girl wrote to a Rhode Island police department asking them to run a DNA test on a cookie and carrots left for Santa Claus and his reindeer.

12/14/2022

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nypd-warehouse-fire-may-burn-for-days-after-destroying-decades-old-crime-evidence/3995394/
Fingers crossed the damage is minimal.

An NYPD warehouse fire that sent huge black clouds of smoke billowing into the air over Brooklyn could burn for days, according to officials, as crews will continue to douse the remnants of an inferno that destroyed evidence from crimes dating back decades.

12/14/2022

Excellent work: 1916!

Anthropologists are often the custodians of long-term unidentified human remains though their positions as curators of university or museum skeletal collections. Various factors decrease the solvab...

10/18/2022

First day of NEAFS conference in the bag. Really great speakers—boatloads of new information and sometimes I felt uncomfortable…perfect! Let’s push things forward💪🏼

09/06/2022

At least she has been found:

Remains found in the woods in Lee, Mass. on Thursday have been confirmed to be those of missing Shaker High teacher Meghan Marohn.The Berkshire County District