{"id":1833380,"date":"2023-02-02T19:51:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T00:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1833380"},"modified":"2023-02-02T19:51:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T00:51:28","slug":"dna-test-links-woman-to-cold-case-murder-that-happened-before-she-was-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dna-test-links-woman-to-cold-case-murder-that-happened-before-she-was-born\/","title":{"rendered":"DNA Test Links Woman To Cold Case Murder That Happened Before She Was Born"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdna-test-links-woman-to-cold-case-murder-that-happened-before-she-was-born%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1833380&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p class=\"p1\">A woman received a call at the end of last month from law enforcement confirming that they had matched her 23andMe test to a case involving a murder that was cold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Jackie Vadurro thought the homicide detectives were kidding around, but it turned out that they weren\u2019t. The homicide case wasn\u2019t recent, either \u2014 it was thirty-six years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI was so taken aback,\u201d Vadurro <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/02\/i-took-a-23andme-dna-test-and-cops-linked-me-to-a-murder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Submitted<\/a> The New York Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI knew I hadn\u2019t done anything wrong,\u201d She said: \u201cBut when the police call you about a murder, you\u2019re like, \u2018Oh my goodness, what am I involved in?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Vadurro also discussed the situation via social media. She said that no one ever said the woman who was killed was missing and authorities don\u2019t know who she is. She has also noted that officials have discovered that she was a third- or second-degree cousin to the woman who perished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Detectives have also discovered that she was on Vadurro\u2019s maternal side and officials think that she was her mother\u2019s great-grandfather\u2019s illegitimate child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe and this Jane Doe share DNA, she\u2019s part of me,\u201d She spoke. \u201cI\u2019m glad that I\u2019m able to bring her story to light, and hopefully [help] catch the horrible person who killed her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While the story is interesting, it raises some important questions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/27\/magazine\/dna-test-crime-identification-genome.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Besorgnization<\/a> about security and privacy of people\u2019s personal information, especially when it comes to their biological information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/we-will-find-you-dna-search-used-nab-golden-state-killer-can-home-about-60-white\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Report<\/a> Science reported that researchers were able use DNA to quickly identify individuals to less than twenty people.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And it\u2019s not the first time DNA has been used to solve murder cases that were previously unsolvable. Authorities were able in 2020 to capture an alleged killer after his distant relative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/news\/investigations\/the-reveal\/all-in-the-family-dna-investigation\/85-179895c9-1b7e-4e93-8ab4-beae25a44a79\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Your DNA is hers<\/a> GedMatch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI didn\u2019t really think anything would come of it,\u201d Jessi Still said. \u201cI just uploaded it on there. Kind of forgot about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">An investigator with the sheriff\u2019s department reached out to Still over email and said she was a relative match to the person suspected of murdering Helene Pruszynski in 1980.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThey told me that they had gotten [my DNA profile] from GedMatch. That I had shown up as the closest DNA relative to this person that was the murderer,\u201d Still to be said. \u201cFirst, I thought maybe it was a joke or a prank. I really didn\u2019t know what to make of it. Nobody ever wants to think about being related to the killer. Which, of course, I don\u2019t want either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">They used her DNA information, among other tactics, to find and arrest James Clanton, to whom she is related via her father\u2019s great, great, great grandparents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt\u2019s really just made me realize, like, everything is connected and it\u2019s a small world,\u201d She spoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of last month, a woman got a call from law enforcement, telling her they matched a 23andMe test that she took to a murder case that had gone cold. Jackie Vadurro thought the homicide detectives were kidding around, but it turned out that they weren\u2019t. The homicide case wasn\u2019t recent, either \u2014 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":1833383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[8626,8044,12600,9694,10468,4349,3983],"class_list":["post-1833380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-born","tag-cold","tag-dna","tag-happened","tag-links","tag-murder","tag-woman"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1833383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}