307: Steve Busch and Steve Kramer - Investigative Genetic Genealogy, Cold Case Murders, Indago

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In part two of this two-part episode, retired agent Steve Busch and retired FBI attorney Steve Kramer review how, after the success of the Golden State Killer case, they became the co-founders and architects of the FBI’s National Investigative Genetic Genealogy (or IGG) team, assisting law enforcement agencies in the identification of suspects, training thousands of investigators, and lecturing all over the world. They also talk about Indago Solutions, the AI-based software they designed to automate DNA matching and the production of investigative leads, transforming how people can be identified through public records and DNA.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 307 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:12.2	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does
0:19.0	through my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.
0:24.6	Today we get to speak to once again, retired agent Steve Bush and retired FBI attorney Stephen Kramer. In this episode they review how after the success of the Golden State Killer case, they became the co-founder of the FBI's very first forensic genetic genealogy
0:46.6	FGG team assisting law enforcement agencies in the identification of suspects.
0:53.6	They then became the co-founder and architects of the FBI's national forensic genetic genealogy
1:01.0	program and team, now known as investigative genetic genealogy IGG.
1:08.0	During this time they continue to solve dozens of previously unsolvable cold case murders and rapes,
1:16.0	two of which they review in this episode.
1:19.0	They also train thousands of investigators
1:22.0	and lectured all over the world about this new investigative genetic genealogy technology.
1:29.0	A growing mountain of unsolved cold cases made it clear to them that the manual method of
1:36.1	DNA matching was just not fast enough. They share with us why they retired from the FBI in 2021 to found Andago Solutions, an AI-based software that produces investigative leads and transforms how people can be
1:56.9	identified through public records and DNA. In the private sector, Stephen Bush and Steve Kramer, continued to work with the U.S. Department of Justice and with state and local investigators to solve cases through the use of genetic genealogy. Now before we get to the case
2:16.6	review I want to remind you that next week I will be releasing another episode for January and then three maybe four more in
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