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GUILTY: Bill Talbott convicted of murder after family tree unearths his decades-old secret

This is the first time a suspect was nabbed using the combined powers of DNA and old-school genealogy.

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This horrific cold case could be solved by tracing the murderer's family tree

To the FBI profiler, it didn’t look like the first time this person had murdered somebody.

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A murder trial in Snohomish County will change genetic privacy forever

Friends say William Talbott II is a regular guy. Police say he murdered a young couple more than 30 years ago. His DNA may be the key to the truth.

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'Probably they don’t like the color that I have': Edmonds storekeeper alleges racial bias crime

Jawahar Lal closed up his Edmonds convenience store after an incident he deems racist.

20 years behind bars, now helping youth stay out of prison

In 1999, Andrea Altheimer of Seattle was sentenced to nearly 40 years in prison. She was convicted for shooting and wounding her ex-boyfriend after she found him with another woman. But this year the King County Prosecutor’s office concluded that her sentence was excessive, and there were grounds to cut it in half. She was released in March from the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor.

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Seattle Police solve 52-year-old murder case using genetic genealogy

Paige Browning talks with Seattle homicide detective Rolf Norton about the murder of Susan Galvin, and how her decades-old case was finally solved.