A combination of DNA technology and genetic genealogy allowed law enforcement authorities to solve a number of murder and missing persons cold cases in 2022.
Case Breakers calls for police to conduct a DNA test to verify their findings; Fox News' Eric Shawn has the details.and has led to breaks in dozens of previously unsolved cases in 2022 alone.
The family of Melissa Highsmith provided this photo of her as a baby. Highsmith disappeared from Fort Worth, Texas, Aug. 23, 1971, when she was just 21 months old. Highsmith’s mother gave her the job. On Aug. 23, 1971, the woman picked up Melissa from the mother’s apartment, where a roommate had been watching the child while her mom was at work. Missing Melissa Highsmith's mother poses next to a composite sketch of her daughter's suspected kidnapper in a Fort Worth Star Telegram newspaper article.
"One of our sisters called her daughter — the youngest one — and her daughter led us to her mom," Jeff Highsmith, who had never met his older sister, previously told Fox News Digital. The family reunited with Melissa, who now goes by Melanie, in Texas on the night of Thanksgiving and learned that she had grown up just minutes from where she was taken. "Boy in the Box" identified as 4-year-old Joseph Augustus Zarelli.
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