How DNA from a tree helped police close in on a young mother's killer

Very interesting share. Amazing how the leaps in DNA science are expanding more and more.

Very interesting for sure!

LTC Eugene Chu
..."For over a year, Mengqi's husband Joe Elledge, then 23, had been insisting that his wife took only her purse and disappeared sometime in the early morning hours of Oct. 8, 2019. "We didn't have any big fights," Elledge told detectives, "I think the last big fight was actually the week before. And it wasn't really a big fight."

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In an interview with CBS affiliate KRCG, Elledge said he suspected that his wife had left him and their 1-year-old daughter for another man. "I know she was talking to somebody else on the side." He said, "And I -— I didn't know that until after she had left. But — I — you know—whatever — whatever she's doin' — I just hope she's safe."

Then-Boone County prosecuting attorney, Dan Knight, told Van Sant that even early on, he had doubts about Elledge's story. Mengqi had left behind her passport, cellphone, house keys and car — but most importantly, she left behind her 1-year-old daughter. Knight told Van Sant "It became apparent early on that Mengqi would not have abandoned her child … She was a great mother." There was also no evidence that the young mother had run away. No Uber rides, airline tickets or credit card activity were ever discovered by investigators."...