In May of 2018, Parabon Nanolabs reached out to Detective Ransom, advising him with the new forensic

genealogy services. After a free preliminary review of the case, Parabon notified the Boise PD

that even though the initial matches pointed to a massive family tree and a Puerto Rican suspect,

the case was highly workable, and they had located a possible second cousin of the suspect.

Detective Ransom, who had long since been reassigned to his regular caseload and wasn't working

Joyce's case full-time any longer, began the process of obtaining authorization for funding to pay

for Parabon services. Detective Vucinich retired shortly after this time, with Joyce's killer still

alluding police. He told me that he was confident his colleagues at the BPD would stay with

the case until it was solved. Haribon issued two reports in total to the BPD. The first initial

genealogy assessment named the DNA matches in Jedmatch and defined their likely relationship to the suspect.

Their second report in November of 2018 came up with three additional names Parabon recommended be contacted for family tree information and or reference samples.

In March of 2019, Detective Ransom began to research people on the family tree laid out in Parabon's report.

He learned very quickly how difficult it was to determine who these people were and how they could be contacted.

He first spoke with a woman named Isabel, who was the mother of a man in the family tree.

She said she had very limited relationship with the man's father and knew

nothing about the family. Next, he contacted the second wife of the top match listed in Peribon's

report. She had started a public family tree on Ancestry.com and agreed to provide familial information

to the investigator. However, she had no information about anybody in the Boise area.

Through police in Columbia, South Carolina, Detective Ransom spoke with a woman who was listed

in Parabon's preliminary family tree. After taking some time to think and pray on the idea of

speaking with the detectives, she agreed to talk to them in May of 2019. She said that her mother

had had eight children, and she named them all for the detective,

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