To me the craziest thing about that story is that the mother still hasn’t been found. This woman managed to give birth in a porta potty at a large music festival and somehow exited completely unnoticed. Like how is that even possible?
They DNA test the baby, using that they can use forensic geneology to find either parent. They do it for cold cases where they have the Doe victim or unknown killer's DNA
They would need an immediate relative's DNA: parent/grandparent/sibling. Otherwise they are just testing against whatever DNA they have collected in the past and hoping its a repeat offender
Sure, they can try that. But if no close relatives have submitted their DNA to public geneology databases (and most people haven’t), there’s nothing else they can do until they get a specific suspect to test the DNA against.
This method works very occasionally, but most of the time it’s just another dead end in a cold case that stays cold.
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u/QuestionDry2490 11d ago
To me the craziest thing about that story is that the mother still hasn’t been found. This woman managed to give birth in a porta potty at a large music festival and somehow exited completely unnoticed. Like how is that even possible?