This blog post is part of our Frequently Asked Legal Questions series.
This past weekend (September 27) marked national Ancestry Appreciation Day. It made me think of a recent criminal case in my ancestral Sweden that was solved with the help of genealogists. Later this week, on October 1, 2020, the District Court in Linköping is scheduled to render a decision on the charge of murder in this 16-year old cold case where the suspect was ultimately identified with the help of DNA found on a genealogy site.
Background
On June 9, 2020, a 37-year-old man was apprehended as the prime suspect in the killing of two persons in Linköping, Sweden, on October 19, 2004. The following day, the man was detained pending trial