Finally, A Face to this Crime

  

 It's April 15th, 1992 and Lisa Ziegert of Southern Massachusetts was at work at a card shop when all of a sudden she disappeared. All of her belongings were left behind. In the years to follow, police had chased down thousands of leads, and looked at hundreds of suspects with no success until now. 
    It is 2016, 24 years after Ziegert's murder and a new DNA process called phenotyping has helped to try and put a face to the killer. When the police first found Ziegert's body, they found a sliver of DNA. They are now using that DNA with phenotyping to create a potential face picture. The process of phenotyping uses DNA to make predictions about the suspects ancestry, eye color, hair color, skin color, freckling and face shape.
    Ziegerts killer was likely a man of European decent with fair skin. He had brown or hazel eyes and brown or black hair. There is a 40% chance he had freckles. 
   “For the first time in twenty-four years, we have a face to this crime, No expense, effort, or means will be spared to bring the person(s) to justice who killed Lisa. We will never forget her.”  said Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni. 

Below is an image that depicts what the suspect would have looked like at age 25, and at age 50.

This was the first real breakthrough in Ziegert's case in decades. Unfortunately, phenotyping is inadmissible as evidence in court. But it brings life into cases that have been long cold. 

For the suspect picture and article, click here
For Lisa Ziegert's picture, click here