Nearly 50 years after a 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death in suburban Chicago, genetic genealogy has led to an arrest in the case.
Barry Lee Whelpley, 76, was arrested on Wednesday for the July 1972 murder of 15-year-old Julie Ann Hanson in Naperville, Illinois, the Naperville Police Department said.game and never returned home, police said.Julie Ann Hanson, who was found murdered in 1972, is pictured in an undated family photo released by the Naperville Police in Illinois.No suspect was identified and the case went unsolved for decades.
"This brutal crime haunted our community," Naperville Police Chief Robert Marshall said at a news conference Friday."We have chased many leads, identified many suspects, and all were eliminated through the exhaustive investigation," he said.Barry Lee Whelpley, 76, of Mounds View, Minn., is pictured in an undated photo released by the Naperville Police Department in Naperville, Ill., on June 4, 2021.
Through genetic genealogy, an unknown suspect's DNA left at a crime scene can be identified through his or her family members, who voluntarily submit their DNA to a genealogy database. This allows police to create a much larger family tree than if they were limited to using law enforcement databases like CODIS. Genetic genealogy first came to light as an investigative tool in 2018 when the
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