ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Cold cases don’t fade.They linger — in evidence boxes, in family memories, and in the unanswered questions that echo for decades.
Across Canada, thousands of unsolved murders and unidentified remains sat untouched, waiting for something that didn’t exist yet:science powerful enough to reveal the truth.
Today, that science is here.
Investigative genetic genealogy — IGG — is rewriting the past.
This is Science Solves: Cracking Canada’s Cold Cases.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts, and come on a journey where we explore the breakthroughs, the heartbreak, and the humanity behind the cases that refused to be forgotten.
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