Shortcut: The Woman Who Names the Unknown - ATC International
6/18/202616 min
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CeCe Moore is one of the world's leading genetic genealogists, using DNA and family-tree analysis to solve cases that once seemed impossible.
She joins us to discuss her work on the infamous Yogurt Shop Murders, the identification of Australia's Poona Dam John Doe, and how advances in forensic genealogy are transforming criminal investigations around the world.
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Host: Meshel Laurie
Guest: CeCe Moore
Producer: Ruby Bartzis
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First 90 secondsMeshel Laurie· Host0:00
[gentle music] This is Australian True Crime International with Michelle Lawrie. CeCe Moore is one of the world's leading genetic genealogists, using DNA and family tree analysis to solve cases that once seemed impossible. She joins us to discuss her work on the infamous yogurt shop murders, the identification of Australia's Poona Dam John Doe, and how advances in forensic genealogy are transforming criminal investigations all around the world. This is Australian True Crime. We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is created, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. And a warning, this episode of the podcast contains graphic descriptions of violence.
CeCe Moore· Guest0:46
What we do is really just a hint, a tip, a lead generator. It's a highly scientific one, but it's the beginning of the investigation oftentimes for law enforcement instead of the end. Nobody is arrested or charged with a crime based on genetic genealogy. We just point them in a direction that the DNA seems to be telling us to go, and then they have to do their full investigation, same as if I called a name into Crime Stoppers. They have to do that deep dive, uh, do the, uh, work that they would do on any other person of interest, and then most importantly, they have to collect DNA directly from that individual and compare it against