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Update: How Your DNA Test Could Solve a Murder

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week on Decrypted, we're re-airing our story about CeCe Moore, who helps law enforcement track down killers by combing through databases of consumer DNA test results. At the end of the episode, host Aki Ito catches up with reporter Kristen V. Brown to see what's new in this emerging field. 

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0:00.0

Join us in New York on November 29th for the Bloomberg Canadian Finance Conference,

0:04.6

proudly sponsored by National Bank of Canada Financial Markets.

0:07.8

2023 marks the 11 year anniversary of our Canada focused event and continues the tradition of providing timely

0:13.8

insights and actionable strategies. We'll have senior government

0:17.1

officials from Saskatchewan, Quebec, British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario as well

0:21.9

as speakers from Northland Power, World Bank, Transolta, and many more.

0:26.0

Register at Bloomberg Live.com slash Canadian Finance slash radio.

0:30.0

Hey everyone, it's Aki.

0:32.0

Today we're re-erring one of my favorite episodes from last year.

0:35.4

It's about a woman called CC Moore who's helping the police solve homicide

0:40.0

cases using these databases of consumer DNA test results. A lot to happen since then,

0:46.3

so keep listening till the end when reporter Kristen Brown will update us on the recent

0:50.8

developments. And a warning that this story includes some graphic descriptions of a crime scene.

0:57.3

Okay, here's the episode. In the fall of 1987, Tanya Van Kylenberg and Jay Cook took a ferry from their home in British Columbia to Washington State.

1:15.1

They were planning to run an errand the next morning for Jay's father.

1:18.0

A few days later, Tanya's body was found in a ditch, 70 miles north of Seattle.

1:25.0

She'd been raped with her hands bound behind her, and there was a bullet through her head.

1:30.0

Two days later, hunters found Jay under a bridge, one county over.

1:35.0

He'd been strangled with a dog collar.

1:37.0

A pack of cigarettes was stuffed in his mouth.

1:40.0

Police had a theory.

1:42.0

They suspected the couple had met the killer on the ferry and offered him a ride, but the

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