He said all seven suspects in the Preston Lord murder had some interaction or involvement with their department; most of them had prior arrests with Gilbert PD.
The department confirmed there are thousands of unsolved homicide cold cases and the unit’s staff is less than half what it was more than a decade ago.
The first searchable online database, ‘Genealogy Explained, ’ shows cases solved by genetic genealogy, all coming from the Forensic Genetic Genealogy Project.
Bryan Patrick Miller, known as The Zombie Hunter, was sentenced to death earlier this year for the 1990s murders of Angela Brosso and Melanie Bernas after a nearly 8-month-long trial.