This season on DNA ID, a couple shot at a campground, a realtor waylaid at a home showing,

a bookstore owner stabbed among her volumes, a young soldier dumped in a parking lot. What do all

these tragic cases have in common? They are all cold cases solved after decades of frustration

and futility by forensic genealogy. I'm Jess Bettencourt, and in season two of DNAID,

I'll bring you 24 more fascinating cases in which the killer eluded generations of investigators

until science and some crafty genealogists cracked them at long last.

Listen to DNAID on your favorite podcast platform.

New episodes drop every other Monday. Hey, everyone is Jen.

And this is Lindsay.

And this is Corpus delictide, the podcast, Missing.

Yes, we are in our missing series now about missing persons. Last week,

we covered the disappearance of Cindy's song. Obviously, this is, you know, we had done a little

bit more of a lighthearted series last time because we were following on the heels of something

heavy. And now we're back in another

heavy series. But of course, these are stories that deserve to be talked about because

you never know when something positive could happen. So today, we are discussing a really

baffling case that took place somewhere you might not expect, and that is in Vatican

City. So quick history lesson, just in case, don't want to assume that everyone knows what

the Vatican and Vatican City is, but Vatican City is basically the home of the Vatican,

aka the head of the Catholic Church.

It is the world's smallest fully independent nation-state.

So in other words, it's a country.

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