Australia 40 Year Old Case Solved Using Genetic Genealogy. Kangaroo Island Remains.

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It's being called the biggest game changer in forensic investigations since DNA testing

Australian law enforcement has started solving missing persons and unidentified remains cases using official police access to private genealogy databases, which combined, hold the DNA records of millions of people around the world.

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Remains found on Kangaroo Island in 1983 have now been identified.

They are William Henry Hardie who went missing from New South Wales in the 1970's

The remains are the first to be Identified in Australia using FIGG (Forensic investigative genetic genealogy (FIGG) involves uploading a detailed DNA profile to a private genealogy DNA database to see if there are any matches to members of the public)

The second remains to be identified using FIGG were those of Tanya Marie Glover.

Identified! - Australia - Alderley (Nth Brisbane) - QLD - Fem/UnkRace/Age - Body In Locked Void at Apartment Complex, 7 Dec'22 - Tanya Glover

Following to see if it’s Sandrine.

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Investigators say several other cases are just days or weeks away from being solved.

 

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Investigators narrowed down a family tree with 649 individuals to a single branch and after contacting the family discovered one of the older brothers, William “Billy” Henry Hardie, had disappeared from NSW in the late 1970s.

A comparison of a DNA sample from one of Hardie’s living brothers against the unidentified remains found “extremely strong scientific support” they were siblings.

Major breakthrough after grisly find on roadside

The mystery appears to have been solved after two schoolboys made the discovery.

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