CeCe Moore

CeCe Moore
Born 1969 (age 48–49)
Nationality American
Occupation Genetic genealogist, consultant
Years active 2010 to present
Known for Working on high profile human identification cases

CeCe Moore (born 1969) is a genetic genealogist who has appeared on TV shows such as Finding Your Roots, 20/20, The Doctors, The Dr. Oz Show and CBS This Morning and is the genetic genealogy consultant for Finding Your Roots and Genealogy Roadshow.[1] In addition to her television work, she is known for pioneering the genetic genealogy methodologies used by adoptees and others of unknown origin for identifying biological family.[2][3][4][5] She has helped law enforcement agencies identify suspects in cold cases using DNA and genetic genealogy.

High profile cases

There have been numerous high profile human identification cases in which Moore has been a key player. In 2014, she was the genetic genealogist who worked with the Branum family on the Thomas Ray Lippert University of Utah artificial insemination sperm swap case.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Paul Fronczak was a newborn who was kidnapped from his mother's arms by a woman posing as a nurse in a Chicago hospital in 1964 and believed to have been returned to his natural parents in 1966. In 2015, Moore's team of genetic genealogists uncovered the true identity of the man raised as Paul Fronczak. Using the methods Moore developed for birth parent search in adoption, it was discovered that his real name is Jack and he has a missing twin named Jill.[13] In 2015, Moore also led the team that established the true identity of Benjaman Kyle aka William Burgess Powell using the same techniques. In 2004, Kyle was found outside of a Burger King in Georgia; doctors determined he suffered from dissociative amnesia. For 11 years neither Kyle nor law enforcement assisting in his case knew his true identity. He has now reclaimed his legal identity.[14][15] Moore works extensively with adults who were abandoned as babies to identify their biological identities. The birth parents of California foundling Kayla Tovo were identified through Moore's work,[16][17] as were the birth parents of the Los Angeles area three half-sibling foundlings who were featured on 20/20 in May 2016,[18] and the birth parents of the Tulsa Fairgrounds foundling "May Belle" aka Amy Cox, as featured on The Dr. Oz Show in October 2016.[19]

As the genetic genealogy researcher for the PBS series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., in 2015 Moore made the unexpected discovery that LL Cool J's mother was adopted. Through analysis of his DNA, she was able to identify his biological grandparents and introduce him to his 90-year old biological maternal grandmother.[20][21][22]

Moore created an incest database and said in 2018 that she had probably the most DNA incest evidence of anybody.[23]

Projects

Moore is the founder of the popular DNA Detectives Facebook group that guides individuals using DNA to identify birth family. Founded in February 2015, the group has assisted thousands of adoptees and others of unknown parentage to identify their birth families and, with 90,000 members (in 2018),[23] is the largest online genetic genealogy related forum.[24]

As a result of discovering that her brother-in-law is a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings after a 23andMe test revealed unexpected African ancestry, Moore founded the Hemings/Jefferson Autosomal DNA Project.[25][26]

In 2018 Moore joined Parabon NanoLabs as head of their genetic genealogy unit. Parabon investigates cold cases using genetic genealogy. Her first case led to the arrest in 2018 of William Earl Talbott II as a suspect in the murder of Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg in 1987.[27] A newspaper commented that the police had been working on this case without success for over 30 years and Moore found the killer in a weekend.[28] Also in 2018, by identifying close relatives of the perpetrators, she helped the police arrest Raymond Rowe[28] as a suspect in the 1992 sexual assault and murder of the 25-year-old schoolteacher Christy Mirack in East Lampeter Township, Pennsylvania.[29] She also lead the police to arrest Gary Hartman,[28] a suspect in the 1986 rape and murder of a 12-year-old child, Michella Welch in Tacoma, Washington.[30] She also identified the murderer in a 1981 stabbing and strangulation of 40-year-old realtor Virginia Freeman in Brazos County, Texas as James Otto Earhart who had been executed in 1999 for another murder.[30] Also in 2018, she helped police find John D. Miller, the murderer of April Marie Tinsley, an eight year old girl who was raped and strangled in 1988 near Fort Wayne, Indiana.[31] Miller confessed to the crime after he was arrested.[32] In 2018, Matthew Dusseault and Tyler Grenon were arrested as suspects in the 2016 murder of an 81-year-old woman in Woonsocket, Rhode Island in a case assisted by Moore and Parabon.[33] In 2018, Moore and Parabon helped police with the arrest of Spencer Glen Monnett who was charged with the rape, burglary and assault of a 79-year-old woman in St. George, Utah in 2018.[34] She also helped the police with the 2018 arrest of Darold Wayne Bowden in connection with the serial rapes in Fayetteville, North Carolina from 2006 to 2008 (called the Ramsey Street Rapist),[35] the arrest of Michael Henslick for the murder of 22-year-old Holly Cassano in 2009 in Champaign, Illinois,[36] the arrest of Marlon Michael Alexander for a series of rapes that took place from 2007–2011 in Montgomery County, Maryland,[37] the arrest of Luke Fleming for the 1999 rape and murder of 47-year-old Deborah Dalzell in Sarasota, Florida[38] and the identification of Robert Eugene Brashers (who committed suicide in 1999) as the man who raped and murdered 28 year old Genevieve Zitricki in Greenville, South Carolina in 1990[39] and murdered 12-year old Megan Sherer and her mother 38-year-old Sherri Sherer in Portageville, Missouri in 1998.[40]

References

  1. ↑ "CeCe Moore". Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  2. ↑ Cooper, Kitty (October 15, 2016). "A DNA conference and methodology for adoptees". Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  3. ↑ Wetzstein, Cheryl (December 29, 2014). "Genealogy Companies Help Adoptees Find Their Roots". The Washington Times. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  4. ↑ Gates, Jr., Henry Louis (November 13, 2014). "Can DNA Help You Find Your Birth Parents". Ancestry Blog. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  5. ↑ Petrone, Justin (September 25, 2015). "As Consumer Databases Swell, More Adoptees are Finding Their Biological Families". GenomeWeb. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Family Has Sperm Bank Nightmare 21 Years After Daughter's Birth". ABC News. January 21, 2014. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Utah families' worst nightmare is Thomas Lippert: Here's why". Tech Times. January 13, 2014. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Family discovers fertility fraud 20 years later: "It almost seems surreal"". CBS News. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  9. ↑ "23andMe Test Reveals Disturbing Artificial Insemination Switch". Live Science. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  10. ↑ Moye, David (January 9, 2014). "Thomas Lippert, Late Reproductive Clinic Employee, Accused Of Swapping His Own Sperm With Customers". Huffington Post. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  11. ↑ "At-Home Genetic Testing Reveals A Sperm-Swapping Nightmare". Business Insider. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  12. ↑ "Daughter Speaks Out About Fertility Clinic Sperm-Switch Scandal". People. January 15, 2014. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  13. ↑ Knapp, George; Adams, Matt; Russell, Ian (July 3, 2015). "I-Team: Man's identity revealed, 50-year-old mystery solved". LasVegasNow.com. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  14. ↑ Justice, Kent; Mohrmann, Jodi (September 16, 2015). "Man with no name finally knows real identity". news4jax.com. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  15. ↑ Hanna, Laurie (September 19, 2015). "Florida man with no memory of his past finally knows his real identity after 11 years". New York Daily News. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
  16. ↑ Walker, Theresa. "What happened to Baby Alpha Beta? Did the newborn found behind a grocery find her birth mother?". The Orange County Register. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  17. ↑ "More Than Just Luck". 23andMe blog. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  18. ↑ Dorian, Marc (May 5, 2016). "Three Siblings Abandoned as Newborns by Same Mom at Separate Times Meet For First Time". ABC News. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  19. ↑ "What You Can Uncover From a DNA Test". The Dr. Oz Show. October 12, 2016. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  20. ↑ "Don't Miss the Incredible Story DNA Uncovered for LL Cool J". Your Genetic Genealogist. February 16, 2016. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  21. ↑ Seaver, Randy (February 22, 2016). "CeCe Moore Explains the Behind-the-Scenes Work on the LL Cool J Episode on Finding Your Roots". Genea-Musings. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  22. ↑ "Finding Your Roots Reveals Family Tree Surprises for LL Cool J". Family Tree Magazine. February 17, 2016. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  23. 1 2 Regalado, Antonio (June 22, 2018). "Meet the DNA detective who finds killers from her couch". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
  24. ↑ Silverberg, David (October 10, 2016). "Facebook's DNA Detectives are Helping Adoptees Find Their Birth Parents". Family Tree Magazine. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  25. ↑ "FTDNA Learning Center – CeCe Moore – Genetic Genealogy Interview". Family Tree DNA. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  26. ↑ "DNA Tests Uncover African Ancestry and Surprising Connection to Thomas Jefferson". 23andMe. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  27. ↑ Zhang, Sarah (May 19, 2018). "The Coming Wave of Murders Solved by Genealogy". The Atlantic. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
  28. 1 2 3 Beal, James (July 25, 2018). "Criminal Gene-ius; Actress finds suspect in cold case murder of teenage sweethearts using DNA website". The Sun. Retrieved July 26, 2018.
  29. ↑ "Police charge popular DJ after break in 25-year-old cold case". Good Morning America. June 27, 2018. Retrieved July 1, 2018.
  30. 1 2 Murphy, Heather (June 27, 2018). "Genealogists Turn to Cousins' DNA and Family Trees to Crack Five More Cold Cases". The New York Times. Retrieved July 1, 2018.
  31. ↑ "How a genealogist helped police crack an infamous 30-year-old cold case". CBS News. July 18, 2018. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  32. ↑ Kilbane, Kevin (July 16, 2018). "Type of DNA genealogy research used in April Marie Tinsley case described as possible 'game-changer' in cold cases". Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  33. ↑ Olivo, Russ (August 1, 2018). "Police turned to DNA, data". Providence Journal. Retrieved August 3, 2018.
  34. ↑ Monnett, Spencer (July 28, 2018). "Arrest made in home invasion rape of elderly St. George woman". The Spectrum & Daily News. Retrieved August 3, 2018.
  35. ↑ Fortin, Jacey (August 23, 2018). "In Serial Rape Case That Stumped Police, Genealogy Database Leads to Arrest". The New York Times. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  36. ↑ Shapiro, Emily (August 29, 2018). "Genetic genealogy leads to arrest in 2009 murder of 22-year-old mother". ABC News. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  37. ↑ Jones, Erica (September 14, 2018). "DNA Database Led Montgomery Co. PD to Cold Case Rape Suspect". NBC4 Washington. Retrieved September 21, 2018.
  38. ↑ Augenstein, Seth (September 19, 2018). "Genealogy Cracks 1999 Florida Rape and Murder". Forensic Magazine. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  39. ↑ Gross, Daniel J. (October 6, 2018). "Greenville cold case solved: Jenny Zitricki killed by serial killer Robert Brashers in 1990, police say". The Greenville News. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  40. ↑ "Killer linked to murders in Missouri, and South Carolina from Paragould". FCC Public File, Kait8. October 5, 2018. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
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