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There are currently more than 250,000 unsolved murders in America according to estimates from the U.S. Department of Justice. This startling reality has led to the rise of an online world of amateur sleuthing with everyday Americans trying to solve cold cases from the comfort of their living rooms. Deborah Halber, author of "The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America's Coldest Cases," will discuss how these armchair sleuths have evolved from the early days of the Internet to genetic and forensic genealogy, which uses results from DNA tests such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com to identify suspects or victims by tracing their family trees.

About Deborah: Deborah Halber started out as a daily newspaper reporter then turned to the dark side to do public relations for Tufts and other universities. As a science writer at MIT, she chronicled everything from quantum weirdness (that’s the technical term) to snail slime. Deborah's book, "The Skeleton Crew," inspired the Netflix crime drama "Ultraviolet". A member of the National Association of Science Writers and president of New England Science Writers, Deborah also writes about true crime or anything involving moldy dead things. Learn more about Deborah HERE.

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