In late 2019, the reoccurrant case was re-examined with an eye toward making use of modern DNA technology to progress the investigation.

Lieutenant J.T. Trebe, at this time, the Detective Bureau commander, wrote, quote,

I wanted to take a different approach with the assignment of unsolved murder cases than what was the norm.

I created a plan to select a case and treat it like the

crime had just been committed. The reoccurring case was chosen as it was currently assigned to a

detective in the detective bureau, Detective Corporal Thomas Chinette, and the case had a lot of physical

evidence with which to work. Because of the case's age, we decided that our primary focus would be

on the forensic evidence.

There had been a lot of evidence collected during the initial investigation, and over the years,

minimal testing had been conducted. With advancements in DNA testing and genealogy research,

we felt there was a chance at finding the suspect in this case, end quote.

To start with, the detectives went back to the case file and made a list of the names

of men who had never been eliminated. As Trebe put it, they cast a wide net. Everyone was on the list

unless they had been eliminated by DNA. Lieutenant Trebe felt strongly that the attack on Rita

had not been carried out by a random stranger. As he put it in his report, quote,

the suspect would have had approximately 70 minutes to discover that Rita was home alone

and then commit this crime and escape before Carrie and Paul returned home. It would make it

highly unlikely that this crime was the result of a random chance encounter with the victim.

It is most probable that the suspect lived in close proximity

where he would have had knowledge of who was at home and when." End quote.

Lieutenant Trib was on to something, but it would take forensic genealogy to tell him what.

Detective Chinette, who had been handling the case alone on top of his active caseload, told

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