The Body on the Train In 1961, a body was found crushed under ice in a railroad car in Nebraska and quickly buried. After discovering his grave marked with the words ‘Unknown Negro,’ local journalist Marresa Burke is determined to find his family. Teaming up the DNA...
The Body in the Sand 32 years ago a young female is found dead in the desert outside Phoenix – her body too badly decomposed to identify. Now Crime Scene Technician, Stephanie Bourgeois is joining forces with the DNA Doe Project to find the girl’s name and bring...
A Box of Bones For 38 years the remains of a young woman – found murdered by the side of a freeway outside of Tyler, Texas – have sat inside a cardboard box in the Smith County Sheriff’s Office. Now, with retirement looming, Detective David Turner is teaming up...
The Hitchhiker A convicted serial killer, Larry Eyler confessed to the murder of more than 20 men across Illinois and Indiana in the 1980s. But several of his victims remained unidentified for decades. Now, after years of frustrated efforts, Newton County Coroner,...
You know those cold cases where families are left with unanswered questions and profound, unresolved grief? Well, the techniques developed and deployed by DNA Doe Project (DDP), Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) have been a game-changer for those cases – and we...
