Posted on 12/15/2024 8:12:25 AM PST by DoodleBob
It was the middle of Jenna Gerwatowski’s workday at the local flower shop in Newberry, Michigan, when she got a call from an unknown number.
The now 23-year-old doesn’t usually answer unknown calls, but says she decided to pick this one up in May 2022.
To her surprise, it was a detective from the Michigan state police.
“He was like, ‘Have you heard of the Baby Garnet case?’” Jenna told CNN.
Jenna had heard of it. In 1997, a deceased infant was found in a campground pit toilet at the Garnet Lake Campground – right where Jenna grew up. …The case went cold, and the “Baby Garnet” case became a known murder mystery in Jenna’s small town for decades.
“Your DNA was a match,” Jenna says the detective on the phone told her. She was related to the dead infant from 1997.
Jenna was in shock. The detective sounded sure, Jenna said, but she wondered how he had even obtained her DNA.
About six months earlier, her friend had gotten a FamilyTreeDNA test for Christmas and Jenna decided to order her own. DNA from other Baby Garnet relatives led detectives to Jenna’s FamilyTreeDNA kit, according to court documents.
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An analysis of Jenna’s DNA kit showed she was the half-niece to Baby Garnet, according to court records.
On June 1, 2022, detectives spoke with her mother, Kara, who agreed to provide her DNA. Kara was the half-sister of Baby Garnet, according to court records.
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Kara, now 42, had not spoken with her mother, Nancy Gerwatowski, since she was 18 because they had a bad relationship, and Jenna had never met her grandmother. Regardless, both were shocked Nancy, who was living in Wyoming when police questioned her, would be the one behind their town mystery.
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DNA databases are the absolute best method of monitoring and social-control the surveillance deep-state has so far ever invented - and what’s even better, people will PAY to contribute their data to the data-base.
The police do comb through the family tree DNA databases for evidence. I’ve seen this before where a relative sent a sample to the company and got a close relative arrested for an unsolved murder.
I’m surprised they’re not secretly taking blood samples of all newborn babies and entering it into a national database for future need.
The out house pit toilet is only legal for individual camp sites
A campground pit toilet will most likely be a concrete pit like a dairy farm has for the collection of manure.
By the way, when you look down into those pits, it is never pleasant.
But if I looked down and saw a dead baby, it would be the worst day ever.
Grandma/great aunt must be a very special person.
You have to read the story.
Does no one actually click on the links to read the story? All your questions are answered there.
I remember getting my cheek swabbed in the mid 90’s for a DNA database when I was in the Marine Corps, it was supposedly to be able to identify war casualties. If any of your close relatives have done an ancestry test they can likely be matched to you. At this point we all need to assume that our dna is on file in a government database. I’m sure their records are extensive enough to identify virtually everyone in the U.S. by their DNA.
I bet they are. Both my children, born in the last 10 years, had to have a blood sample drawn and sent to the state of Alabama before they could leave the hospital.
Her grandmother was the culprit.
I know of a local case where a multiple rapist was tracked down via an out-of-state relative’s DNA in a database. He’s now 6 years into the consecutive 30- and 35-year sentences.
“Nancy is charged with one count each of open murder, involuntary manslaughter, and concealing the death of an individual. Open murder carries a potential life sentence.”
With the time that’s passed, it makes no sense to me to charge her with anything other than concealment of the death. Her story about the birth could very well be true. Law enforcement should have better things to do than lock up another granny who is no threat to the rest of us.
Is this satire? Because 23 years ago they were doing this with cord blood in NJ when I had my son.
Maybe “ancestry and 23 and me” are just “agency” cutouts. Just sayin’.
People are so easily fooled by the pretty front door. You can find if you’re related to royalty...it’s fun...what harm could it do. I believe the vid jabs was the honing process to the bio-weapon crap.
Yes, Kara’s mother (Grandma Nancy Gerwatowski) is the killer. Kara’s daughter Jenna joined FamilyTreeDNA. Jenna wasn’t born until after the baby was found. Kara would have been ~ 15 when her mom Nancy was pregnant. Nancy (killer granny)- Kara (mom)- Jenna (daughter).
It is always a lose-lose situation.
If you post part of the story, you’re accused of being a pimp.
If you post the whole story, you’re accused of wasting bandwidth.
Six years ago, like you:
I had my doubts about getting my DNA test.
Several first/second and third cousins had already done their DNA’s so it was a moot point.
It didn’t matter at that point, the police/anyone already had my DNA.
At a family meeting, 6+ years ago, my family members were not interested in identifying dead and live relatives. So they told me to enroll in History.com and send my DNA to them. My family bought me a History.com test for
35,000 DNA’s have been posted since then, and my family could care less.
“How did the cops find out about her DNA?”
The dope VOLUNTARILY decided to GIVE her DNA to a genealogy organization. When someone does that, the small print says the cops can get into the database and use it. And they do.
It’s how they solved a very cold case of a serial killer in CA. Golden State Killer I think.
Does anyone really believe the Covid tests were to check for Covid? Or maybe it was a DNA harvesting operation...?
I remember some old articles that China was downloading the 23 and me databases.
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