Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Monday that three cold cases have been solved thanks to the office’s DNA forensic genetic genealogy program. FOX13
A 1995 murder in Kitsap County, the 2003 rape and abduction of a 17-year-old in McLeary, and two violent home invasion sexual assaults in Pullman in 2003 and 2004 were solved as a result of the program.
Ferguson’s Sexual Assault Kit Initiative freed up $2.25 million to chip away at the state’s backlog of rape kits, requiring them all to be inventoried, and for registered sex offenders who have dodged providing their DNA to finally do so. A cigarette butt left at the crime scene provided a critical DNA sample that sat in CODIS for more than 20 years before forensic genetic genealogy testing in 2021. Forensic scientists built a profile that matched Douglas K. Krohne, a man with an extensive criminal record in Washington in the 1980s and 1990s.The Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Office investigated the rape of a teenage girl in 2003.
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