DNA evidence helped the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department crack a cold case that’s haunted the Puyallup and Sumner community since 1988.
That’s when the body of Tracy Whitney was found in the Puyallup River, with the cause of death consistent with strangulation or suffocation.Genetic genealogy helped detectives find a match to the alleged killer’s DNA by tracing it to one of his living family members, then further narrowing it to him.Tracy’s uncle Chad Bartlett is younger by Tracy by a few years."She had a way of making people feel special," said Bartlett.As kids, the two would hang out together during family functions.
Then, detectives were able to get a grant from the state attorney general’s office for genetic genealogy testing, which only recently led to John Guillot Jr. of Puyallup. "Unfortunately, by the time we had these results back in 2022, he had died from cancer," said Moss. He said that Guillot had a strange history beyond Tracy’s case. "His wife had committed suicide with a firearm.
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