In February 2025, Vice Police Inspector Flemming Nørgaard of the East Jutland Police was able to report a breakthrough in a rape case that was at the time more than nine years old. The breakthrough was achieved using genetic genealogy (kinship searching), an investigative method that is relatively new in Denmark. (Archive photo) Photo: Mikkel Berg Pedersen/Ritzau Scanpix
DNA match leads to trial in cold case rape
A 50-year-old man is on trial for the 2015 rape of an 89-year-old woman near Randers. Although police recovered DNA at the scene, the case remained unsolved until the 2023 implementation of familial DNA searching. This method allows police to identify suspects through close relatives, such as...
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