Curtis Rogers, the founder of the free DNA website GEDMatch, wanted to do all he could to help police solve a disturbing assault case out of Utah. He knew his website, full of more than 1.2 million ...

Just two years ago, GEDmatch was still an obscure genealogy website, known only to a million or so hobbyist DNA sleuths looking to fill in their family trees. The site was free, public, and run by two ...

Michael Fields, a detective from the Orlando Police Department, has revealed at a police convention that he secured a warrant to search the full GEDmatch database with over a million users. Legal ...

To what extent is giving a DNA test also a present for law enforcement? By Heather Murphy The company GEDmatch, the DNA database that facilitated an arrest in the Golden State Killer case and in ...

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