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The Killer of Little Shepherds
May 15 2018
Douglas Starr, Professor of Science Journalism at Boston University, tells the story of the people who invented forensic science, the first criminal profile, and the first ser...
Raised as Paul Fronczak, Genetic Genealogy Uncovers His True Identity
May 03 2018
Paul Fronczak spent his life wondering if he was a baby who’d been kidnapped from a Chicago hospital. As an adult, DNA tests confirmed that detectives had gotten it wrong. C...
Mindfulness for the Forensic Practitioner
Apr 18 2018
Amy Jeanguenat, Principal Consultant at Mindgen, describes what mindfulness is and how it can help a person to manage their stress, improve their decision making skills, and m...
Solving the Phoenix Canal Murders
Apr 05 2018
Colleen Fitzpatrick, founder of Identifinders International, describes how she used forensic genealogy to narrow a list of 2,000 suspects to just 5 and helped the Phoenix PD c...
Reliability of DNA Matches in At Home DNA Tests
Mar 21 2018
CeCe Moore, founder of The DNA Detectives explains why users of at home DNA tests should take DNA matches seriously, and how she’d like to work closer with the forensics com...
Neanderthal Genes in Modern Humans
Jul 13 2017
Professor Ed Green discusses sequencing of the Neanderthal genome and signs that early humans interbreed with Neanderthals. TRANSCRIPT: My name is Ed Gree...
What Can be Learned from Non-Coding DNA?
Jun 14 2017
Past ISHI Speaker, Gregory Wray, discusses what we knew about non-coding, “junk” DNA in 2014. TRANSCRIPT: My name is Greg Wray. I’m a professor at Duke Un...
The Computer Wore High Heels
Jun 01 2017
We’ve all heard of Rosie the Riveter, but Melinde Lutz-Byrne discusses how she tracked down Alice Hall – one of the top secret Rosies recruited by the Department o...
Using Genetic Genealogy to Trace Family History
May 18 2017
Genetic genealogist CeCe Moore describes how DNA testing can assist in tracing a family tree. TRANSCRIPT: I’m CeCe Moore and I’m a professional Geneti...