Colorado Teen’s 1981 Murder Solved Using DNA

18-year-old Jeannie Moore’s 1981 murder was finally solved after 38 YEARS when cold case detective used databases on Family Tree DNA to identify the killer. Moore was raped and murdered in Colorado in 1981.

Despite widespread media coverage and the fact that investigators retrieved a semen sample from the perpetrator, the case remained unsolved for 38 years. In May of this year, a cold case detective decided to send to the killer’s DNA sample to a genetic genealogy website in the hopes of finding a match. It was revealed that a relative of the murderer had uploaded their DNA to Family Tree DNA – with cops then working backwards to determine the killer’s identity as Donald Steven Perea, who died in May 2012 at age 54.

Read the article at the September 17, 2019 posting at DailyMail.co.uk.

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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