Wise, who was also known as "Hoss Wise," was a trucker and stunt driver. Killer's previous arrests preceded mandatory DNA testing "The investigation revealed that Wise had a living family member who was interviewed, cooperated, and a DNA match was confirmed," FBI special agent in charge Keri Farley said. Recently, authorities sent the DNA to a specialized lab, which created a genealogical profile for the suspect and produced new leads for investigators to run down. Law enforcement officials had found what they believed to be the killer's DNA at the crime scene, but they were never able to link it to a person. Wise was also identified through genealogy DNA, officials said. On Tuesday, investigators announced they had answered the other question that remained in the case: Chahorski had been killed by a man named Henry Fredrick Wise. In March, investigators announced they had identified a body found on a Georgia highway in 1988 as Stacey Lyn Chahorski, a Michigan woman who had been missing for more than three decades.įor years, authorities were unable to figure out who the woman was, until the GBI and the FBI used genealogy DNA to uncover Chahorski's identity.
"That, to me, is incredible because as an agent you live with these cases." "It's extremely unique," Georgia Bureau of Investigation special agent in charge Joe Montgomery said at a recent press conference. They say it's the first time the novel but controversial forensic technique that connects the DNA profiles of different family members was used to learn the identities of both the victim and the perpetrator in the same case.
Federal and state law enforcement officials in Georgia used genealogy DNA to identify both a murder victim and her killer in a 1988 homicide that went unsolved for decades.
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