The sight of the mutilated body of a petite woman on a dirt road, nude and partially decomposed in a California vineyard in 2011, was disturbing enough to give a detective who worked the scene nightmares. Kern County officials were able to solve the mystery with the help of the DNA Doe Project, a group that uses investigative genetic genealogy …
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SEATTLE — Genetic genealogy helped identify the youngest known victim of one of the nation’s most prolific serial killers almost 37 years after her remains were discovered near a baseball field south of Seattle. Wendy Stephens was 14 and had run away from her home in Denver before Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer, strangled her in 1983, the King …
