Here's the really chilling part : police say they found the Virginia woman thanks to “new technologies” and “advancements in forensic science.” Translation ? They identified her using an AncestryDNA test—the kind people take to learn about their heritage, or find distant cousins.
This isn't the first time cops have used these tests to target women over pregnancies that happened decades ago : In December 2024, a Florida woman's DNA test led to her grandmother being charged with murder, involuntary manslaughter, and concealing the death of an individual—for the death of an ‘infant' 20 years earlier. And an Ohio mother and grandmother was arrested in 2019 after cops used DNA testing to tie her to “a baby that was left” in the woods 26 years before.
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Here's the really chilling part : police say they found the Virginia woman thanks to “new technologies” and “advancements in forensic science.” Translation ? They identified her using an AncestryDNA test—the kind people take to learn about their heritage, or find distant cousins.
This isn't the first time cops have used these tests to target women over pregnancies that happened decades ago : In December 2024, a Florida woman's DNA test led to her grandmother being charged with murder, involuntary manslaughter, and concealing the death of an individual—for the death of an ‘infant' 20 years earlier. And an Ohio mother and grandmother was arrested in 2019 after cops used DNA testing to tie her to “a baby that was left” in the woods 26 years before.