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Publication Date: January 28, 2026 - 04:00
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Why solving cold case killings just got much harder for police
January 28, 2026
Police cold-case units face a new challenge in solving decades-old killings. With the world's largest storehouse of genealogy information, Ancestry.com, now banning law enforcement from using its data without obtaining a court order, it is much harder for police to build family trees based on crime-scene DNA and zone in on suspects via their distant relatives.
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