A man convicted for the 1986 rape and murder of 12-year-old Michella Welch in Tacoma was sentenced to 26 years in prison on Tuesday. FOX13
in 2018. It was then that they were able to gather a new DNA sample and it matched what was found at the crime scene in 1986.
"Genetic genealogy uses DNA technology to identify subjects by matching the unknown profile to a family member; traditional genealogy is then used to build a family tree from publicly available websites," said then-Tacoma Police Chief Don Ramsdell. Detectives say although Hartman never used a site like Ancestry.com, someone in his family did and that allowed experts at Parabon Nanolabs toDetectives also went undercover to trail Hartman, and were able to get a napkin that he left behind at a restaurant to match the DNA. Hartman received the maximum sentence of 26 years in prison. He will be 96 when he gets out.
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