Lectures For Lifelong Learners!

Join law professor Henry Webb for an interactive, one-hour presentation on investigative genetic genealogy (“IGG”), a law-enforcement technique that uses DNA from crime-scene evidence to identify potential suspects by comparing it to profiles in public genealogy databases, finding distant relatives, and building family trees to trace the source of the DNA.  Beginning with a discussion of Barbara Rae-Venter’s interesting book, I Know Who You Are, which chronicles how IGG identified the man later arrested as the Golden State Killer, Professor Webb will then explain how IGG was also instrumental in solving the recent case involving the murder of four University of Idaho college students by Bryan Kohberger. Professor Webb will demystify how IGG actually works, explain why it succeeds where traditional methods stall, and discuss the key legal and ethical questions it raises. including Fourth Amendment, database consent, chain-of-custody, and courtroom admissibility issues.