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Posted on 02/19/2022 11:57:41 AM PST by nickcarraway
20-year-old Eric Schubert used DNA to build a series of vast family trees and identify the killer
On the morning of March 18, 1964, nine-year-old Marise Ann Chiverella went missing on her way to school in Hazleton, Pa. Her body was found later that day, with evidence she had been sexually assaulted — and for nearly 60 years, police didn't know who had done it.
Now, a college student with a special gift for genealogy has helped solve the decades-old cold case.
State police exhumed the long-dead assailant's body last month and said his DNA precisely matched DNA left on Chiverella's jacket.
Police identified her killer as James Paul Forte, a bartender with a record of violent sexual assault, who died of natural causes in 1980 at the age of 38. Police said Forte, who was 22 at the time of Chiverella's murder, had no known connection to the little girl or her family.
Generations of state police investigators pursued Chiverella's killer — more than 230 members of the department were involved in the probe at one time or another — but Forte's name did not come up until recently.
"I was just reading how heinous and how terrible of a crime it was," genealogist Eric Schubert, who is also a third-year history major at Elizabethtown College, told As It Happens host Carol Off. "It just really struck me and I knew if I could, I really wanted to help."
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CeCe Moore, a genetic genealogist, does a lot of that kind of work. I think she helped crack the Golden State killer case.
It’s great when they solve a crime with DNA, but scary what could be done with a person’s DNA in a data base. We have no privacy anymore, so be careful when submitting DNA for genealogical analysis.
Died.
Of natural causes.
At age 38?🙄
Was he vaccinated? 😉
Covid got him, man.
Voluntarily submitting DNA for any reason isn’t a smart thing to do.
If somebody raped & killed a little girl, you can bet somewhere the father would be the headline the following day...
...or that there would be a nondescript obit describing ‘natural causes’.
;-)
I’m not voluntarily giving my DNA to anybody!
I thought that was a little strange. I also thought the genealogist looked creepy.
If the police don’t get you, COVID will.
The geneoligst looks like a biological woman in men’s clothing
Sure. Just like Bob Saget died of multiple fractures from hitting his head on the headboard in his hotel room. A dozen times. Happens every day. 🤣
The police came to every home that had a male high schooler home sick that day to check on them.,
Ping.
Police..... maybe but I generally have good relations with the law.
Covid..... possible but I’ve caught all three variants and I’m still kickin.
Now if they would release the investigators on the murders of two teen girls in Carlsbad NM back in 1961. I still remember it. The whole city was on edge for months.
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perhaps time and money would be better spent working thru thousands of dna tests awaiting attention.
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