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I'm Reed Redmond.

I'm Will Johnson.

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This week on True Crime Chronicles.

A massive investigative effort involving multiple law enforcement agencies was underway.

Police said hundreds of leads came in about people thought they knew someone or maybe they thought it was their family member.

This is kind of the case. It's been the giant log jam for cold cases and it's okay.

It's been the, I keep saying it's the Mount Everest of our cold cases.

The one that we could never seem to overcome, but at the same time nobody ever forgot.

Some detectives will solve this case someday.

Their genealogists gave me a list of only three people.

I appreciate you having us here and we're so appreciative to have been able to assist on this case.

My name is David Middleman and I'm the CEO of Authorum.

Authorum is a Texas-based laboratory that specializes in forensic grade genome sequencing.

We're actually the only company in the United States that can perform these kind of techniques fully in-house.

Identifying suspects and unidentified persons from crime scenes is all we do.

It's the only thing we do.

And again, it's entirely in-house and we've obsessed over the last couple of years about iterating on every step of that process

so that everything we do from the first step to the last from evidence end to answers out is optimized and perfected just for this one purpose.

In practical terms, what Authorum CEO David Middleman says is that this means his lab is able to access cases most others can't.

And we've taken on a number of cases that have either had a DNA that's not good enough.

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