Your DNA helps you learn more about your family. It could also help other families by solving some of WA’s worst crimes.
Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) combines new DNA analysis techniques with traditional Genealogy (the study of family history & tracing of family lineages) to identify leads in criminal cases and unknown remains using commercial DNA databases.
IGG has been successfully used by WA Police since 2023 on numerous cases including homicides, sexual assaults and unidentified human remains.
Allowing law enforcement access to your DNA data file on certain databases could help them crack a case.