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Cece rches analysis using their DNA. William Earl Talbott II, previously unknown to police, is now in jail for the murders.

Among the other cold cases Cece has been involved in is the death of Linda Slaten, 31. She was strangled with a wire coat hanger in her Florida home while her two sons slept in their rooms in 1981.

DNA evidence led Cece to identify Joseph Mills, 58, the former football coach of Slaten’s son Tim. He is awaiting trial for murder. Cece said: “It was so important for the sons to get answers.”

Teacher Christy Mirack, 25, was sexually assaulted and strangled at her home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1992.

Crime scene DNA led

Cece to local DJ Raymond Rowe, 50, now serving life in jail. She said: “He was a successful, attractive family man and local celebrity. It was shocking. He was hiding in plain sight.”

When Cece investigated the 1986 murder of Michella Welch, aged 12, in Tacoma, Washington, it was the first time she had met the victim’s family.

Cece said: “It had a big impact on me, to see their relief after all those years.” Nurse Gary Hartman, 68, has denied murder and is awaiting trial.

Jigsaw

The genealogy sleuth needs only the slimmest of matches to nail a killer.

“In that double-murder – Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook – I found two second cousins who shared three per cent of the killer’s DNA in the databases but shared no DNA with each other.

“A search of their two family trees revealed just one intersection – a marriage that produced three children,