The Montana Records That Led Misty to a Killer

In this episode of Finding Family DNA, Jay and Misty step away from adoption reunions to revisit a 47-year-old Montana cold case Misty worked during her time at Parabon NanoLabs. In December 1978, 16-year-old Corina Lydia Contreraz was sexually assaulted and murdered outside Billings, and her case sat unsolved for decades. Misty walks through how genetic genealogy opened a path investigators hadn’t had before. Jay also shares how a high school photo signed “Love, Bill” cracked a birth father case, the two talk RootsTech 2027, and Misty explains why families get release rather than closure, and how everyday GEDmatch users can help.

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Chapters

00:00 Intro

00:11 Welcome and RootsTech 2027

03:29 A "Love, Bill" Photo and Two Reunions

07:07 The Corina Lydia Contreraz Cold Case

08:36 Working the DNA at Parabon

10:05 Building the Trees Toward Montana

12:27 Midroll — RootsTech 2027 and BirthParentFinder