Innovative Forensic Investigations
Making the World Better with Team Collaboration
Investigative Genetic Genealogy Services
Cold Cases Violent Crimes
Missing Persons Unidentified Decedent
Living Identification
who we are
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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Why Choose Us
Our team members come from a variety of backgrounds, but we all have one thing in common: a passion for helping others. By combining our knowledge and backgrounds, our team will work collaboratively with agencies through the entire life cycle of the case. We will work together through the justice system's professional standards set by our federal and state governments and advocate for the victims and families throughout the process as well. Through the power of collaboration, our goal is not just to help agencies solve a case, but to offer answers to the families of victims while upholding the standards of our judicial system.
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Already accused in sexual assault cold case, N.J. man faces more charges
An Egg Harbor City man who was arrested last week in connection to a 1996 sexual assault cold case in Brigantine now faces additional sex-related charges stemming from a 2003 incident in Galloway.![]()
Innovative Forensic: Pecos Jane Doe Case Solved After 55 Years
Emporia, Va. (January 2021) – Innovative Forensic, an investigative genetic genealogy firm providing services to law enforcement, announce the resolution of a 55-year-old cold case out of Pecos, Texas.![]()
Reheating Cold Cases
Evidence Tech Magazine March-April 2021 IssueBy: Jennifer Moore You simply cannot listen to or read the news without the story of some 30- or 40-year-old murder being solved. Ever since Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was charged with eight counts of murder on April 24, 2018, based on DNA evidence and genetic genealogy, there has been a resurgence of cold case re-openings. Since then, over 100 cold cases consisting of murder, rape, and infanticide have been solved using the new science of investigative genetic genealogy (IGG).
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MEET THE TEAM
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Jennifer Moore
Founder & Chief Executive Officer/Private Investigator![]()
Ashley Link, Esq.
Chief Legal Counsel/ Media Relations![]()
Madison fajna
Director of Operations & Case Management/Investigative Genetic Genealogist/ Private Investigator![]()
Ryan Backmann
Director of Client & Media Relations/ Family & Victim AdvocateMEET THE TEAM
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Christina Pearson
Director of Investigative Genetic Genealogy Team/Private Investigator![]()
Patricia Busby
Investigative Genetic Genealogist![]()
Patrick Korkames
Investigative Genetic Genealogist![]()
Sheriff Keith Prince
Client RelationsMEET THE TEAM
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Rebecca Walton
Administrative Coordinator/ Private Investigator![]()
Melissa Maier
Investigative Genetic Genealogist/Private Investigator![]()
Raquel Reichert
Researcher/Private InvestigatorMEET THE TEAM
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Melissa Maier
Investigative Genetic Genealogist/ Private Investigator![]()
Raquel Reichert
Researcher/ Private Investigator
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(434) 623-2800