{"id":94184,"date":"2019-07-28T07:13:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T14:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/signaling-a-new-era-in-forensic-investigation-a-man-caught-through-genetic-genealogy-gets-life-in-prison-for-1987-double-murder"},"modified":"2019-07-28T07:13:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T14:13:28","slug":"signaling-a-new-era-in-forensic-investigation-a-man-caught-through-genetic-genealogy-gets-life-in-prison-for-1987-double-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/signaling-a-new-era-in-forensic-investigation-a-man-caught-through-genetic-genealogy-gets-life-in-prison-for-1987-double-murder","title":{"rendered":"Signaling a \u2018new era\u2019 in forensic investigation, a man caught through genetic genealogy gets life in prison for 1987 double murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/signaling-a-new-era-in-forensic-investigation-a-man-caught-through-genetic-genealogy-gets-life-in-prison-for-1987-double-murder.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a milestone for forensic criminal investigators, a convicted killer received two life sentences on Wednesday for a 1987 double slaying after becoming the first person arrested through genetic genealogy to be found guilty at trial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe conviction and sentencing of William Earl Talbott II marks a new era for the use genetic genealogy for identifying violent criminals since it has now been tested and tried in a court of law,\u201d geneology expert CeCe Moore told ABC News.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/investigators-genetic-genealogy-arrest-suspect-cold-case-1987\/story?id=55273043\" target=\"_blank\">William Earl Talbott II was arrested in May 2018 and charged with aggravated murder<\/a> for the Washington state cold case killings of 20-year-old Jay Cook and 18-year-old Tanya Van Cuylenborg, authorities said. A jury found Talbott guilty last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a milestone for forensic criminal investigators, a convicted killer received two life sentences on Wednesday for a 1987 double slaying after becoming the first person arrested through genetic genealogy to be found guilty at trial. \u201cThe conviction and sentencing of William Earl Talbott II marks a new era for the use genetic genealogy for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}