DNA: ID

About the host:

DNA:ID is hosted by Jessica Bettencourt who co-hosts, co-produces, or writes and researches for other AbJack podcasts including Missing Persons, Scene of the Crime, Campus Killings, and Beyond Bizarre True Crime. She also does research and writing for True Crime Garage.

About the show:

We all hear stories almost daily now about cold cases being solved by investigative genetic genealogy. This new crime-solving tool answers the “who” question about these often decades-old crimes.... but what about the why? This podcast will look at crimes solved by genetic genealogy, and examine the connection - if any - between the victim and the killer, and why the crime occurred. Each case is unique, and has its own story behind the headline. DNA: ID is hosted by Jess Bettencourt, and publishes every other Saturday.

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Latest Episodes

Michael Morford Michael Morford

Episode 72 Eve Wilkowitz

20 year old Eve Wilkowitz’s life was all coming together during the first few days of spring, 1980. She had a job she loved and a new boyfriend. Her daily commute into Manhattan from Bay Shore, Long Island was long, but Eve had plans to move into the city. Someone took all that away from her. After boarding the last LIRR train from the city to Long Island, Eve vanished. Her loved ones were frantic for three days, and their worst fears came true when she turned up dead in the backyard of a nearby home

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Episode 71 Doe ID ‘The Lady I The Fridge’ Amanda Deza

In March, 1995, 2 scrap scavemgers found an abandoned refrigerator in a canal area known as 'Whiskey Slew' in Holt, California. As they tried to remove the fridge, it opened revealing it's ghastly contents; the decomposed remains of a young woman.

An investigation of the body revealed that the woman had been murdered; the victim of blunt force trauma to the head. Although she had no identification, police hoped that using the scant clues and items found inside the fridge, that they would be able to ID her. That didn't happen, and she became known as 'The Lady In The Fridge'. She was buried, and her skull was kept with hopes that it would one day help identify her.

Years later, DNA & genealogy would ultimately give 'The Lady In The Fridge' her name back. She was Amanda Deza, who would have been 30 years old when her remains were found.

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Episode 70 Lee Rotatori

In June 1982, Lee Rotatori was excited for the new job that meant a move to Council Bluffs, Iowa. But when Lee was found murdered in the Best Western there, police were stumped.

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