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Oct 22, 2026 10 min

S2 E6: The Family Tree

from Case Files: True Crime Stories Hosted by Rehan Ahmed

The Golden State Killer hunted California for more than a decade — then vanished for forty years. In S2 E6, investigator Paul Holes and genetic genealogist Barbara Rae-Venter build a family tree from a single DNA sample, tracing distant cousins through public genealogy databases to one quiet suburban man. This is how forensic genetic genealogy cracked the most famous cold case in American history. New episodes daily — one complete case every season. Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).

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