Microsatellites and the Murder of Janie Landers

Discover the science behind current-day genetic profiling and how it was used to solve the 38-year-old cold case of Janie Landers

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Episode Sources:

• DNA fingerprinting in forensics: past, present, future

• Forensics, DNA Fingerprinting, and CODIS

• What is STR Analysis?

• Microsatellite from the Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms

• FBI CODIS Core STR Loci

• Oregon State Police detective solves 1979 cold case murder of Salem teen

• Janie Landers’ Find a Grave page

• The Generation Why Podcast Blog: Gerald Kenneth Dunlap and the Janie Landers Cold Case

• ‘It needed to be solved’: Cold case detective details hunt for Salem teen’s killer

• Oregon State Board of Eugenics

• Erasing Fairview’s horrors

• Coming Home- In The Shadow of Fairview

• In The Shadow of Fairview

• Janie Landers Homicide Cold Case SP79 757219