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Choosing your investigative genetic genealogy (IGG) company partner can be the most important decision you make in your investigative processes. Virginia-based Innovative Forensic Investigations is a full-service investigative genetic genealogy company providing Law Enforcement investigators across the country, with the expertise, tools, and guidance in a collaborative process to solve your case. Team members combine extensive law enforcement, legal, investigating, and investigative genetic genealogy backgrounds to take your case through the process from submission to conclusion. Experts in legal procedures and family advocacy provide unique additional benefits involving court cases and survivor counseling.

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Central Florida’s True Crime Files: DNA helps investigators narrow in on nearly 40-year mystery
By: Ray Villeda | May 10, 2022 ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A tooth. That’s what could help investigators crack a nearly 40-year mystery. Re...
Rose Hnath Murder (Part 3)
May 6, 2022 It has been 33 years since Rose Hnath was murdered in her North Whitehall home. Now, science is giving her case new momentum, and her f...
Rose Hnath Murder (Part 2)
May 5, 2022 The murder of 78-year-old Rose Hnath from North Whitehall stunned the Lehigh Valley. Investigators are still looking for her killer 33 ...
Rose Hnath Murder (Part 1)
May 3, 2022 It’s a question that has gone unanswered for 33 years: Who killed 78-year-old Rose Hnath of North Whitehall? But advances in DNA ...
Bensalem Detective Chris McMullin Identifies Another Jane Doe After 29 Years
By: Tianna G. Hansen | Jan. 23, 2022 Beginning in 2002 (20 years ago), Detective Chris McMullin took a fresh look at four cases that had gone &...
Police ID woman found in Bensalem lot 30 years ago. Now they want to find the Warminster woman’s killer.
By: Jo Ciavaglia | Dec. 20, 2021 Nearly 30 years after she disappeared, the woman whose body was found wrapped in plastic and buried in a shall...
Georgia Mom Sentenced for Murder After Leaving Newborn Daughter in Cooler on Side of Road
By: Jerry Lambe | December 11, 2021 A judge in Georgia on Friday sentenced a woman to spend more than two decades behind bars after the woman admit...
Brian Avis Indicted on 8 Counts for Sexual Assaults of 10 Year Old Brigantine Girl & 5 Year Old Galloway Girl
November 30, 2021 MAYS LANDING – An Atlantic County Grand Jury returned an 8-count indictment on Tuesday, November 30, 2021, against 59 year-...
Already Accused In Sexual Assault Cold Case, N.J. Man Faces More Charges
By: Katie Kausch | September 22, 2021 An Egg Harbor City man who was arrested last week in connection to a 1996 sexual assault cold case in Brigant...
Pecos Jane Has a Name
By: Michael Hardy | June 14, 2021 The young woman who mysteriously drowned in the Ropers Motel pool in 1966 might have remained anonymous forever...
Reheating Cold Cases
By: Jennifer Moore | March-April 2021 Issue You simply cannot listen to or read the news without the story of some 30- or 40-year-old murder being ...
We Never Stop Looking – Not Even 55 Years Later
By: Patricia Davis | March 4, 2021 During the summer of 1966, President Lyndon Johnson, the Vietnam War and the skyrocketing price of the average h...
Mother Of Ga. Baby Found Dead In Cooler Identified 14 Months Later
By: Alex Jones | Updated: Mar. 27, 2020 at 9:31 AM EDT TROUP COUNTY, Ga. (WTVM) – The mother of a newborn baby found deceased in a cooler in ...