Plano police use genetic genealogy and DNA evidence to solve 1991 cold case

Name: Plano police use genetic genealogy and DNA evidence to solve 1991 cold case
Uploaded: 2024-12-20T17:26:00-0600
Duration: 3 min 10 s
Description: A North Texas police department used genetic genealogy technology, similar to what's used in over-the-counter ancestry tests, alongside DNA evidence to find a suspect in a 33-year-old cold case. Plano Police have arrested 64-year-old Nicholas Ray Carney in Ardmore, Oklahoma, for allegedly abducting and sexually assaulting an 8-year-old child in 1991.

A North Texas police department used genetic genealogy technology, similar to what's used in over-the-counter ancestry tests, alongside DNA evidence to find a suspect in a 33-year-old cold case. Plano Police have arrested 64-year-old Nicholas Ray Carney in Ardmore, Oklahoma, for allegedly abducting and sexually assaulting an 8-year-old child in 1991.