The couple had disappeared while running a long-distance errand to Seattle from their homes in British Columbia and had been found, in two separate and horrific crime scenes, in Washington State the following week. When Snohomish County detective Jim Scharf heard that news, he wondered if the same process would work on a notorious cold case in Washington State he'd been trying to solve for many years - the 1987 murders of Tanya Van Cuylenborg, 18, and her boyfriend Jay Cook, 20. In April 2018, the Golden State Killer was arrested in California after familial DNA was used to identify a suspect from crime scene DNA. Rustad spent about an hour on GEDmatch that day in 2015 after uploading her data, but she didn't find any new family members and didn't think about it again until 2018 when police knocked on her front door. Then Rustad took a crucial next step, posting her raw DNA from the kit to a website called GEDmatch, where users can share their results in an open database. She took the test, sometimes known as a "spit kit," and her results confirmed the ancestry she'd already mapped in her family tree.
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That photo must have been a lucky charm, because out of hundreds of entries, Rustad was one of two to receive a free home DNA test kit. In 2015 she entered an Ancestry DNA contest - submitting a photo of herself at 5 years old, dressed as a ballerina on Halloween. Rustad continued her genealogy work, adding great-great grandparents and building out branches of her tree. I thought that was strange." Chelsea Rustad, left, at age 5 and dressed for Halloween, pictured with her mom and younger sister.
"Usually, people have some type of internet presence. No YouTube," Rustad told Moriarty in "A Killer in the Family Tree," an all-new "48 Hours" airing Saturday, November 20 at 10/9c on CBS and Paramount+. "The most striking thing about him would be his absence.
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