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The Megyn Kelly Show

How Police Used Genetics in Idaho Murders Case, and Solving Crimes with Genealogy, with CeCe Moore | Ep. 470

The Megyn Kelly Show

SiriusXM

Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.632.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Megyn Kelly is joined by CeCe Moore, Chief Genetic Genealogist at Parabon NanoLabs and founder of DNA Detectives, to talk about how DNA and genealogy helped lead to Idaho college murders suspect Bryan Kohberger's arrest, the genetic genealogy process and his father's involvement, the lengths the killer went to avoid leaving DNA at the crime scene, the possibility the killer used an alias in online chatrooms about the case, whether genetic genealogy can help solve the JonBenet Ramsey murder case, how "touch DNA" is used to develop a composite of the killer, how genealogy started to be used to solve crimes, the way 23andMe changed the way genetics could be used, other cases Moore has helped to solve, the future of genetic genealogy, and more.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Megan Kelly show, your home for open, honest and provocative conversations.

0:07.0

Hey, everyone on Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly show.

0:15.6

Idaho murder suspect Brian Colbergor in court, just a short time ago, waving his right to

0:21.7

a speedy preliminary hearing. He will get a preliminary hearing, but it will not be ASAP.

0:28.2

The judge setting a court date for June 26th. This will be the point at which prosecutors

0:33.8

can present the evidence they have trying to convince the court that this case should

0:38.0

go forward. They will almost certainly get it. And we will go forward with a trial.

0:44.0

June 26th, of course, more than five months from now. We know that DNA played a role in

0:49.0

helping to identify Colbergor as the accused suspect in connection with the murder of

0:54.1

these four Idaho college students on November 13th. They were murdered, according to the

0:59.4

affidavit between 4 a.m. and 4 20 a.m. in the middle of the night was basically a 16 minute

1:05.4

window of time in which someone went into their home, went up to the third floor where

1:10.8

they murdered two girls went down to the second floor, murdered one girl and her boyfriend

1:16.1

and left the other two women reported to be sleeping in that house as roommates alone.

1:23.0

And we now know from the affidavit says she did see him. She laid eyes on him as he left

1:27.4

the house saying he had a surgical mask on the kind we wear during COVID that she remembered

1:33.9

he had bushy eyebrows, medium build. And that was basically what she remembered about him

1:40.4

dressed in black. There is reporting that something called investigative genetic genealogy

1:46.9

may have played a part in actually nabbing this guy. And today we are thrilled to have

1:53.0

one of the world's top experts in that field join us for the show. What started as a hobby

1:59.2

has literally changed lives. Cece more is now bringing justice to victims and getting

2:05.0

violent criminals off the streets by the hundred. I mean, wait until you're the numbers.

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