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A trial in Snohomish County led to the first jury conviction in the world where detectives identified the suspect through forensic genealogy — a tool now widely used to crack cold cases through the combined powers of crime scene evidence, genetic research and public family DNA databases.

Read the three-part special report on Tulalip’s Stolen Children.

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