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Rae-Venter, Barbara, author

I know who you are : how an amateur DNA sleuth unmasked the Golden State Killer and changed crime fighting forever / Barbara Rae-Venter.

New York, New York : Ballantine Books, [2023].

©2023

xiv, 270 pages ; 25 cm

In the span of just a few years, Barbara Rae-Venter went from researching her family history as a retiree to finding a serial killer who had baffled law enforcement for decades. I Know Who You Are tracks her improbable journey to becoming the nation's leading authority in investigative genetic genealogy, and to identifying the Golden State Killer-who had evaded authorities for forty-four years-in just sixty-three days. Rae-Venter also details other extraordinary cases that she has worked on, from the first criminal cold case she ever cracked-uncovering the long-lost identity of a child abductee-to the heartbreaking case of the Billboard Boy, which began with unidentified remains dumped along a North Carolina highway.

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Part one: Lisa Jensen, January 2015 -- Part two: the Bear Brook murders, January 2017 -- Part three: the Golden State Killer, March 2017 -- Part four: the Clearfield rapist and the boy under the billboard, November 2017 -- Part five: Seattle baby boy Doe and precious Jane Doe, July 2018 -- Part six: home.

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