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Basically, investigators get all the way to the end of the list of all these last
names and people that the lab really thought it could be, and they still have nothing to show for it. But Lieutenant
Co is not willing to give up just yet. If you want to get something solved, like the GSK case, why not go to the
exact person who helped solve it? And that is Barbara Ray Venttor. Barbara isn't a cop. She's not a detective.
She's a retired 70-year-old patent lawyer who just happens to be really, really good at genealogy, which she only
discovered after retiring, by the way, when she started mapping her own heritage as a hobby. And that hobby
quickly turned into volunteering as a search angel. That's someone who helps adopes find their biological parents by
creating family trees from DNA. And when she got really good at that, police department started calling.

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Brief Summary

Barbara Ray Venttor's genealogy skills aid in solving the GSK case.

Key points

Barbara Ray Venttor: The Genealogy Expert. A retired patent lawyer becomes a key figure in solving the GSK case through genealogy.

Episode highlights

Barbara Ray Venttor: The Genealogy ExpertA retired patent lawyer becomes a key figure in solving the GSK case through genealogy.“She's not a detective. She's a retired 70-year-old patent lawyer.”0:24Sep 10, 2025

Episode quotes

Why not go to the exact person who helped solve it?

Lieutenant Co's determination to solve the case leads to Barbara Ray Venttor.

0:13WatchSep 10, 2025

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