When genetic genealogy helps solve criminal cases

  • Émission
  • 07 December 2023
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Solving old cases, cold cases, through genetic genealogy: thatʹs what France recently did in the so-called case of the "woodland predator", a man suspected of raping five teenage girls in the early 2000s. He was convicted thanks to the DNA of close relatives. DNA they had entrusted to a company specializing in genetic genealogy. What was possible in France is not possible in Switzerland