SEATTLE (AP) — Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson says grants from his office have recently helped local law enforcement agencies solve three cold cases using genetic genealogy, and 20 other investigations are underway. The Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Office used one of the grants to solve the 2003 abduction and rape of a 17-year-old girl, the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office solved a 1995 murder, and Pullman police found the suspect responsible for home invasion sexual assaults in 2003 and 2004. During a news conference Monday, Ferguson called it “a message to survivors that they are not forgotten.”
Genetic genealogy grants help solve Washington cold cases
