Barbara Rae-Venter is a New Zealand born genetic genealogist, whose work using DNA and genealogy research is helping crack cold cases across America.

Barbara started out researching her own family tree and is now the go to expert for law enforcement agencies. Her work lead to the arrest of a suspect in the Golden State Killer case, a case that was 23 years old.

This year Time magazine named her one of the most influential people of 2019 with one investigator saying Barbara’s methods have given law enforcement “its most revolutionary tool since the advent of forensic DNA testing in the 1980s”.

To tell me more about her work, Barbara Rae-Venter joins me now from California.

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