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Subscribe where you're listening to this podcast so you don't miss an episode. The Special bonus episode, DNA ID Year in Review. In the first season of DNAID, 2021, I covered 24 cold cases that were solved using the modern technique that is changing the crime-solving game, forensic genealogy. I started this podcast because I felt as though while these cold cases got a burst of superficial media coverage when they were finally closed, there was a lack of in-depth coverage of the victim, the killer, and how their paths crossed on that fateful day years or decades ago.

And what I found in covering these 24 cases was fascinating. All of the victims were women and girls who were just

going about their everyday lives when their killers struck, although some of them may have known

or been acquainted with their murderers. The killers, meanwhile, ran the gamut from spree killers to

serial sexual predators to the most interesting of all in my mind, the one-offs, as Paul Holes called them in our early

2021 conversation, the guys who killed once and never again that we know of. In this year and

review mini episode, I'm going to recap the episodes by grouping the cases under distinct

categories of victimology. It's an interesting exercise to try to get a better understanding of

why these cases went unsolved for so long and what motivates people to kill. Okay, so the first

category is stranger crimes of opportunity. In these cases, our victim, a woman or girl,

is just at the wrong place at the wrong time and is preyed on by someone who is, to our

knowledge, not known to them in any way. They are Jody Loomis. Jody was riding her bike to see

her horse in Snohomish County, Washington, and was attacked, raped, and shot to death by Terrence

Miller, someone she did not know. Jessica Baggin.

The teen was walking home from her own birthday party,

late at night in Sitka, Alaska,

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